The first in a new style of book from HarmonicaWorld.net, Blues & Beyond is a compilation drawn from other books in the Ben Hewlett harmonica course.This album is purely for beginners and covers many of the different styles of playing explored in more depth in other albums in the course. These taster tracks enable the beginner to find out what areas of harmonica playing they might want to explore and from there they can go in to the appropriate book in the series that goes into much greater depth on a single subject.Blues & Beyond covers chugging, single note playing, blues riffs and tunes and other styles of playing – country, rock, jazz or classical. Overall a great introduction to harmonica-playing. If you would like to see a video demonstration of a selection of tracks on this album please visit www.youtube.com/paullennonuk and pick your video.FREE HARMONICA LESSONS? You will find them at the above youtube address and more at www.youtube.com/benhewlettukBen HewlettBen Hewlett became a musician at the age of ten in 1969 learning the trumpet. He went through the school system of exams and performances, finally escaping the mandatory classical repertoire with the discovery of Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. He was a minor third addict at fourteen and still has a passion for jazz and blues. Godfather Dennis Corble gave Ben a harmonica at the age of 7 thus unknowingly sowing the seeds of a lifelong love of this instrument!Paul Lennon L.T.C.L. (1957 -Paul is a composer/arranger, multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and teacher. He studied violin, piano and composition at Trinity College of Music and later jazz harmony and composition with Amit Sen. His varied career has covered performance in classical, jazz, folk and rock and composing in different genres and styles including contemporary dance, jazz art music, ambient and film soundtrack. He has also co-written an entire series of educational CD/books for harmonica with Ben Hewlett. With the composer Dave Hewson he worked as editor and copyist on many KPM/EMI library albums. In 2010 a collaboration with Jonathan Cope resulted in Chakra Harmony - a healing album which Paul composed, arranged and performed on. The first solo album called Noodles & Blues Moods - Do You Want To Play Along? was released in 2013 and is the first of many albums to be released on CDbaby as a solo artist. This album features performances on violin, keyboards and bass along with programming. He currently plays piano in a duo with tenor saxophone player Howard Turner, of Itchy Fingers fame and continues to compose and record at his studio in Beckenham, Kent.For more info and showreel go to www.paullennon.comThe book:A pdf version of the book with all tab and music notation is available for £5.00 from HarmonicaWorld.netPlease email us at info@harmonicaworld.net for more information.