Mark Kneeshaw learned to play the blues on the final day of the third annual Art of Jazz Celebration.
The 40-year-old Toronto photographer was one of several adults who got an accelerated harmonica lesson at the Jazz For Juniors Clinic yesterday afternoon. Instructor Mike Stevens had promised that participants would learn to play four songs in an hour.
“I'm a slow learner, I've got to practise," said Kneeshaw, who wound up being able to eke out a recognizable melody on the instrument he received as a gift more than a decade ago.
“He has a real way of talking that made me get it in a way I never had," he said of Stevens, whose instructions included, “say the word 'oohwah' when breathing in."
The 40-year-old Toronto photographer was one of several adults who got an accelerated harmonica lesson at the Jazz For Juniors Clinic yesterday afternoon. Instructor Mike Stevens had promised that participants would learn to play four songs in an hour.
“I'm a slow learner, I've got to practise," said Kneeshaw, who wound up being able to eke out a recognizable melody on the instrument he received as a gift more than a decade ago.
“He has a real way of talking that made me get it in a way I never had," he said of Stevens, whose instructions included, “say the word 'oohwah' when breathing in."
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