Nice job, thanks for uploading this! First of all, I appreciate your effort with this, I can tell you worked on piecing this together. Nice work! 

For the timing with triplets and a few of the more complex phrases, I would just suggest practicing it slowed down a little bit. You can play at this speed, but working on the exact timimg and nuances sometimes can help if you do it slower at first just to make sure you can get it all down correctly and then take it more full speed once the phrasing and timing is down. It may feel like you're taking a step back doing that, but it is actually taking it to the next phase of your playing that way.

The only other thing I would say right now is the 3 draw should be bent a half-step most of the time in this song. Sometimes you bend it, but most times it is just not bent quite enough. But that is just working on bending, which is something you can do in small doses every day.

GOOD WORK - thanks!!

Thank for the input, Dennis!

Yes practising each lick and verse at lower speed is definately something I will do more of. It will help me figure out both rythmic stuff like triplets, but also to nail the bends.

Thanks again! Sonic Junction is the best tool for those who wants to improve their blues harmonica skills

very , very good Gagi !! 

Nice to hear from you Andre! Please visit on my YouTube channel  "G Harp Monday" 

again Gagi - GREAT work with this! Just saw your work on Lookin' Sharp and this is another great one!

Same feedback, you are doing very good with the phrasing, notes and techniques...the BEST thing you can do now for your playing and for your tone and overall sound is to play softer. Less breath and less volume. It will help the notes ring out better, the octraves be more in tune, and also help your harps last longer. Very good work!!

Very good, real nice work on this song! Much of this was spot on, nice job! A few places, the only critique would be to get a cleaner articulation and more of a scoop/dip on some of the notes, or smoother phrasing in some of the end choruses, but very nice work on it, and I can tell you put some time into!!

Thank You!! Yes, it is very important to practice rhtyhm playing which will help you learn to keep better time if you do it often and correctly! 

Great work!! Nice timing and articulation with the rhythm, really good!!

Thanks! Happy to help, that's what I'm here for. Although some days I'm busy doing other lessons, microphone work, gigs, recording, or my radio show (like today). Some days I truly run on "musician's time"...hahaha!!

Completely and totally! That is part of the point of tongue-blocking...you want the chord you play (when lifting the tongue) to be made up of the lower notes. This is for the sound and tuning of the chords. If you "imitate" that rhythmic style while U-blcoking (or by opening your pucker while puckering), it is indeed a different chord, which will not sound the same...and the higher you go, the worse this will be with the tuning of the instrument for the draw notes. In no way am I recommending that someone does these things with puckering (lip-blocking) or with U-blocking, but I wanted to state that some people do this. It is not the same technique, nor the same result. 

And I happened to be at my computer working on some other projects, so I was able to asnwer quickly...it's all about the timing :-) haha Thanks!

Actually, my title was just a play on words...it being a "backwards Box Shuffle" pattern, so I "backwardized" that common phrase Shuffle Off To Buffalo ...I don't ever recall hearing Norton Buffalo's tune, though he was a fine player!

You can imitate the tongue-blocked shuffle rhythm with a "U" or "Lip" block technique (puckering) but the attack and the chords are not the same by nature of those techniques. You can pull back the tongue with U-blocking, and can open and close the pucker while puckering (aka lip-blocking), but it does not give you the same results rhythmically or musically...although U-blocking will sound closer since the attack will be closer.

The top two tips here:

- breathe in less air, this takes practice but will help big time!

- work on releasing a little "extra" air when you exhale (either through your mouth or nose)

 With a little practice these will both become a lot easier.

Thanks so much Mike! I believe at some point we will do this, I have a few ideas that would work well in this lesson format. 

Thanks Bill! It is getting back to basics in a way, because your timing and sense of rhythm is a basic musical foundation...but very few players work at it and get good at it. It is SO important not just if you want to play rhythmically, but because everything you do musically (at least in this type of music) is based around a groove. And to play in the groove, or swing ahead or behind the beat, means you need to have a good sense of timing and rhythm which really comes from working on playilong in time rhythmically. No way around it. 

Glad you enjoy this!!

Hello Boyd, it's true for me. But I discovered that if you move the Left/Right balance of your device you're able to make the guitar shut down as you like, each instrument has his own way. If it can help anyone.... :)

Yes, haha, on the road as we speak. I have met a few of you on the road and so glad to see you when I'm on tour. Thanks for coming up and introducing yourselves when you come see me. Always keeping busy with something...!