Blues Harmonica Jam Camp

Beginner's and Intermediates!

Blues Harmonica Jam Camp is a 5 Day Vacation "Intensive" designed by master player and instruction author Jon Gindick to move YOU to your next blues harmonica musical and overall musical level. Since 2002, Jon and his team of coaches have put on over 35 of these events and created hundreds of new or improved harmonica players.

The focus at Blues Harmonica Jam Camp is on you. We listen to you. We give you feedback. We help you figure what you need to learn, and we give you the tools to learn it. We jam. We practice. We jam. Over the course 5 days, you get better and better , all the time having a fabulous vacation amidst your new found jamming friends. Because we limited enrollment to about 30 campers, with five or more coaches,
we keep a 5 to 1 student/coach ratio, which means individual attention as well
as group jams.

Our coaches are the best in the business -- great players and also great people who love to teach. If you are a beginner we will help you with the basics of harmonica musicality: getting single notes with great tone, bending, chugging, improvisation. Intermediates will get into 3rd position, harmonica repair, tongue-blocking and overblows. No matter what your level, you'll get many, many opportunities to jam with guitarists and with our house band. In addition, you'll get to play onstage in Clarksdale, Mississippi's most prestigious blues club, Ground Zero. Don't worry: we talk about stage fright, and if it's a problem for you we help you beat it in stages.

The camp is on historic grounds at The Hopson Commissary, once a huge cotton operation about three miles east of Clarksdale. It is out in the farmland. The Commissary serves southern style food all day long at reasonable prices. Most of us stay at The Shack Up Inn, which is right next door, and is guaranteed to be the most fun, and funky hotel/motel experience you have ever had. The Shack Up has about 25 bins and shacks, so it is important to sign up as soon as possible, so you can make your reservation.

When you sign up, you are entitled to one free phone consultation/lesson with Jon Gindick. These sessions last about 30 minutes and can greatly increase the
value of the camp by helping you prepare.

The camp is organized to hit you at several levels. 1. Experience: you will play a lot,
and we will listen and give you feedback. 2, Inspiration: our coaches are each great musicians with unique approaches to music. 3. Information:we'll make you harmonica street smart. 4. Feedback: we listen to you, and tell you what you are doing right, and also (gulp) what you need to improve. 5.Community: everybody learns from everybody.

Most travelers fly into Memphis, and arrange to rent a car or take a bus to Clarksdale.

Jam Camp tries to help drivers find riders. By now, we hope you are convinced that this is the best possible way to learn blues harp and have an adventure in the heart of
America's fabled Blues Country. For more info, call Jon at 310-457-8278