How To Play the Harmonica: And Other Life Lessons
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Filled with ideas for how to liven up your life, How to Play the Harmonica is the perfect companion for keeping you happy. Lost your dog? Call him home with a shrill whistle on your harmonica. Bored at work? Impress your colleagues with your witty banter and new thoughts on life. Tired of cooking? Throw in the apron and head out for Chinese . . . in Beijing. With the harmonica as his guide, Sam Barry leads the way to higher sense of self and fun. As a former minister, reporter, activist, bohemian, writer and artist, Sam Barry knows a great many things about life-and playing the harmonica. Barry currently works as a marketing and promotions manager at HarperOne and plays the harmonica in The Rock Bottom Remainders with his brother Dave. He and his partner, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, live in San Francisco. Witty ways for putting some fun back into your funny bone! Bookpage "In this little gem of a book, Barry's pastorly reassurances loosen ties, bring out inner chickens and enable nascent musicians to let rip like Dylan and the Boss, eventually moving toward pomposity-slaying licks and writing an original blues song (because you know you have one in you)."
foreword by dave barry 6 acknowledgments 10 prologue: how playing can save your life 11 playing: your inalienable right 17 breathing and other essentials 33 listening: big ears are pretty 43 stage fright 51 jumping in the deep end 55 keeping the faith 63 just a white boy lost in the blues 71 practice works 83 making time to play 93 melody & harmony: what makes a song a song? 97 we've got rhythm 107 improvisation: how to fake it so you make it 113 oops! the law of mistakes 121 plays well with others 125 failure is an option 133 etiquette: good manners matter 137 dancing the two-step with two left feet 141
