Thank you very much, Luke @Luke !!
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Slim
First of all I am glad the battle seems to be over and the good guy winning. My back has been a real pain since college and there is now a 45 minute outpatient method to fix the problem. I plan to get it do asap. Hopefully your ear issue will be gone, all the political garb we are inundated with will be as soon. I am getting The Yellow Rose From Texas down and only need tabs. Hopefully I will be good enough to retain my citizenship. I was frustrated the first day and it got better thereafter. like bending playing it exactly right will take some practice as how long and loud to play each note correctly takes time. my wife can tell what I am playing, which is always a good sign but she politely told me to slow it down a bit.
My next endeavor will be tackling El Condor Pasa, which is going to be a real test of persistence level. By the way The Yellow Rose was very near being named the state song but for some reason was not.
Scott
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Playing along with the piano 
I have found to be a very HUMBLING experience.
I always thought I was bending pretty good until playing along with the piano. Any change in pitch becomes immediately obvious!
In particular just doing the major scale up and down the entire harmonica is challenging with the bends on the lower octave and the tricky overblow at the top which I often hesitate to even try because itās so squeaky 
I hope to look back on the videos I am now doing and see improvement.
I now understand why you say @Luke that mastering bends could well take a lifetimeā¦
Thanks always for your thoughts and advice!
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SEARCHING by Chicago on my Golden Melody in key of C
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Hi all, just thought Iād share the songs Iām working on at the moment.
Little Walterās Crazy Legs and Canāt hold out much longer.
Jethro Tullās Locomotive Breath (vocals and the flute solo, quite ambitious but fun).
Little Green Bag (the theme song of the movie Reservoir Dogs).
I like to decipher, study and learn multiple songs at the same time, it allows me options when I have time to practice.
I use MuseScore for sheet music (including the harmonica plugin), Transcribe! for my own transcriptions, and learning resources ranging from YouTube to Hal Leonard.
I have mainly been enjoying figuring out which position works for certain songs, and have found Paddy Richter to be quite handy at times as well. (Might need to invest in a few more keys, only have one in G at the moment.)
Some songs I recently worked on and enjoy playing: Sunny side of love (Steve Guyger), Blowinā the family jewels (William Clarke), Donāt get around much anymore, Hard-hearted woman, All because of you (Big Walter Horton), Telephone Blues (George Harmonica Smith)ā¦
Keep up the hard work and have fun everybody! 
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Hi all! For a while now been practicing the Kesh Jig and Miorrisons Jig, played ādirtyā and on a C harmonica (for now my first and only harmonica). It doesnāt sound like the original, but I really like playing it cause itās ācatchyā.
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Had never heard that jig before. I looked it up and found the āWildeā guy playing it here 
Thatās fast!
Iād probably try and slow it down to half time and concentrate on working the single notes.
Very challenging song.
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Before I wanted to recreate the song or Will Wilde, I would first beam myself to 1972.
Then, with a lot of talent, I would have the chance to get to where Will is today.
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thanks Bobby!
That is indeed my plan for the next Jig Iām learning - Iāve learnt these ones before I could play cleanly or even knew what that was, and they are meant to be played on a D/G harp, and somehow Iāve been able to cheat the system and they sound okay dirty on C, once I get more harps I plan on re-visiting them and play em slower nā cleaner
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https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xilk91zre42wb4v8zhfnq/Copno-more.m4a?rlkey=ddhqyewkn8ps0wrhotntko834&dl=0
Well I got my lovely orange Seydel in C.
I made this little tune for my friend. Heās just retired as a cop, the good kind, and brought it back from the states for me. Iām not used to it and didnāt get many clear notes but here goes. Itās called āCopno Moreā
Vocals by Bruce
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Thereās lots of good cops @toogdog. I have a few in my family. Your friendās retirement will be well earned, Iām sure. Youāre getting a nice sound from your new harp, and I bet it looks pretty too.
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ooh bluesy! I like!
- the dog really adds to the atmosphere of the song!
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The dawg makes this video go from good to great! 
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Hey @toogdog, can we not get those harps in Oz?
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I couldnāt find them. Thats why I asked my mate to pick up a couple in NY
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Right now Iām working on āIāll fly awayā. I donāt read music or tabulature or anything, just play by ear. Always liked the song but itās challenging me. Iāll get it though.
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Too many! It drives me crazy
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@Luke I would like to say a huge huge - thank you - to you from the bottom of my heart.
Having never played any instrument, I started 3 months ago your āBeginner to bossā course. Still going through the course, I recently started to work on the intro of the harmonica piece āDigging My Potatoeā from the legendary anime series ācowboy bebopā played by SenÅ RyuichirÅ discussed previously. And this week I started to roughly be able to do the first 3 āphrasesā of the intro. This is just the first 20 seconds of the songs, but I am so happy with just that! For me, the harmonica pieces in that album relate to so many memories, friends and my life in Japan more than 20 years ago that I was both smiling and crying just being able to roughly play that. I would have never imagine being able to do that in 3 months.
So Luke, as I keep bugging you so often with comments in the lessons (to the point that I think you should charge me extra), and as I am able to do the first step on working on one of the harmonica piece I want to play the most, I just wanted to share here my deep appreciation 
and thank you for the course and the support.
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Never heard that version of Digging my Potatoes as Iām not an anime fan, my son is however so Iāll ask him about it. If itās the same song Iām thinking of the version I first heard of it was the Muddy Waters version which I think had either one of the Walters or James Cotton on harp. Anyone please correct me if Iām wrong itās been a few years since I heard it. Iāve very likely got it in my collection but it would probably take ages to find it.
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@Andy2 outside the name and maybe some riffs here and there (Iām not that far into the piece yet to judge) I think that SenÅ RyuichirÅ piece for the anime has little to do with Muddy Waters song.
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