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Open Mic / Open mics in Michigan
« on: August 09, 2015, 11:29:36 AM »
Hi everyone, New Member Guy here I am wondering out of everyone that lives in Michigan where the good harp open mics are located. The Unicorn in Lansing has a good one but its an hour away and I cant get my wheelchair in their bathroom the doorway is too small. I don't care if it is an hour away from where I live in Swartz creek MI but I want to be able to use the dang restroom. I was just at Corey's in Lansing to watch Dennis Gruenling and couldn't get in their restroom either talk about irritating. I am getting to the point in my harp playing where I finally want to start playing for the public so I am looking so thought I would ask. Peace

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Hello Room / Hello from Michigan
« on: August 09, 2015, 07:24:55 AM »
Hi everyone, my name is Guy . I have lived in Michigan all my life. Currently live in Swartz Creek, MI. I am 50 years young and a General Motors retiree(I was a team coordinator at Lansing car assembly). I haven't been playing harp all that long I picked one up around 2010 and started to seriously study the instrument in 2012 because I had so much free time being retired. I had Michael Rubin for a regular teacher for 1.5 years he taught me about all the scales and theory and all the basics in relation to harmonica. I was one of the first members of Ronnie Shellist's "harmonica 123" Ronnie taught a live online class for a few years before he got hired to work for Hohner. It was such a cool idea Ronnie would be live on video while about 20 students would watch (or play) and type in questions unfortunately he doesn't have the Live thing anymore I don't think but he does have it all available for download along with many lessons on the harmonia123 site. I also had Jason Ricci for a teacher for a few weeks but I wasn't quite advanced enough to take advantage of them at the time I don't think. Jason is a great guy he invited me to his house to stay the first time we talked on the phone when I was inquiring about hiring him for my teacher. I did play piano and some guitar before I started with harp which was a big help in musical understanding. I do have youtube videos up if you want to hear me play. I use the videos to listen to myself and to record for the levels of achievement test at bluesharmonica.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BRTT5gMVeQ   I love the harp and have met a lot of great people in the process. One more thing I am in a wheelchair from taking a bad fall down a mountain on a snowmobile which is why I retired early from General Motors. My health is what keeps me from playing in a giging band so its just been for my love of blues music that I keep playing. Maybe I will get good enough on harp to sit in occasionally with different musicians someday.

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