Channel: Modern Blues Harmonica

Category: Music

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Description: Table tennis and blues harmonica have many things in common. Both demand a keen attention to rhythm and groove; both require that the student spend long hours in repetitive drills, making small but vital adjustments. The necessary skills for both endeavors can be considerably developed with the help of machines--jam tracks on a stereo; a Newgy robot--but ultimately the student must emerge from the woodshed into human community. As table tennis is a game of speed and spin, so blues harmonica is a discipline of speed and bends. Both the sport and the music require considerable aerobic endurance when performed at a high level.