Hi Jarek --- right now we are focusing on iOS and Android.  We have started development of the Android App and it should be out in a couple months.  

Right now Windows Phone is below 5% market share --- so we will likely not develop for that platform in the near future and instead concentrate our efforts on improving our iOS and Android Apps.

Will be this app for windowsphone ?

Hi Ian --- that's great.  Glad it is working for you.  When I was testing the App I practiced harmonica in the park during lunch time.  I actually got a couple compliments playing Rudolph (I'm a beginning harp player).

Enjoy Jerry and thanks for being a part of Sonic Junction.

Check out the software Jamkazam.  It seems to offer online jamming.  I've not tried it, but it might be a way forward.  If anyone is interested in trying it I'd love to join in with my harp, but I've not been playing all that long.  

I'm up and running with the IOS app.  It works beautifully on my iPhone 4s, and also my iPad 2.  I'm into the harmonica side of things, and so far I'm carrying Easy and Sentamental journey with me.   It's a great extension to the services provided at Sonic Junction.  Thanks very much.   Ian

I was a young and budding but broke musician in the 1980s. And Duke and his band were playing at a local establishment - The Rainbow Bistro, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I new the owners, employees and many of the patrons but could not afford the admission and was to proud to ask for a free pass. It was a cold day in the middle of winter, my guess 10 F maybe colder with ample snow on the ground.  I walked the mile in my sneekers and hiked up the fire escape of the club, which I knew was close to the back of the stage. I huddled in my winter parka, on the fire escape outside of the club and enjoyed the show until about 1AM then hiked home. I had forgotten all about that night until recently - now under Duke's tutelage here on sonic junction. Duke made an impression on this musician, then and now. Thanks Duke. Your the best.

Hi Mike, I'll this video out when I'm bot in an airport and maybe I can do,a lesson on this. Duke 

Thanks Eric, I will try to do some more lessons in this style. Glad it's helping you. Duke 

A frequent request we've gotten is the ability to watch lessons anywhere, anytime, with or without an internet connection. We heard you and have been working hard to make this happen.  

Today we're pleased to introduce the Sonic Junction iPad and iPhone App.  Now, any lesson on your practice list can be sync'd and stored automatically to your iPad and/or iPhone, so you can learn from the Legends on-the-go.  

The iPad and iPhone App is free for all Sonic Junction Members.

With the App, you get these features:

  - Automatic download and sync of your practice list and lessons

  - Loop points, chords & tab

  - Video slow downer

  - Custom looper

  - Browse, add and subtract lessons from your practice list

To download and check-out the Sonic Junction app, click here to get it at the Apple AppStore: 

A fantastic group of Sonic Junction Members tested the app thoroughly during its development.  I want to sincerely thank them for their time and input in making this a great release.

Thanks being part of Sonic Junction.  We're always striving to make this a rewarding and fun place for you to learn, and hope you enjoy the app.

Mike

Hi Bruce,

Thanks.  We're actually getting ready to announce the first release via the App store --- please stay tuned --- it's coming soon.

Mike

It looks like he's playing a tenor guitar (or it's a trick of the light)

Tiny Grimes Blues Wail is a great tune.  

The piano player is doing some nice chord voicings too around 1:00 to 1:05.  Would be fun to learn those too.

Yes, Duke...

I knew when I made those videos that I wasn't sounding my best and I should have been tapping my foot. I was sort of distracted because of my using the video recorder for the frst time. I can play a lot better than that if I just take the trouble to bet myself focused.

Hi Tom, I like take 2 also! Good blues feel and you have positions for Chicago style blues under your belt. My recomemdation would be to play along with some of the blues tracks that i provide with some of the songs. Concentrate on timing playing with tracks so you can develop better timing. You ideas are good but you could work on timing. Tapping you foot is a good thing to do to improve concentration on time and groove. Duke

Thanks Bill, Duke 

Thanks Duke! I'm definitely interested in all the styles you teach. I like so many of the tunes you teach that the hard part is deciding which one to work on. 

Bill

Take 2

Hi Bill, I think it's up to each student to decide what works best I'd say. If you are interested in all the styles I teach and have some basic knowledge of each idiom you can jump around as you like. If your main interest is straight blues the lessons Mike picked are a good start. They are all related in many respects. Duke 

Hi Tony, Yes I do pick in different spots to get different sounds sometimes when soloing. As far as sound and gear, I used an early 50s Epiphone Zephyr Deluxe Regent archtop. If you hear the acoustic sound it was probably leakage in to the vocal mic as it was all recorded live. I plugged straight into a Fender deluxe reverb amp no effects unless you consider a tuner an effect.

Hey Tom, Watched your video. Sounds like the real blues! And just out of tune enough to sound authentic! Duke

Would like help with easy bar chords that I can move..Have carpal tunnel so fingers dont stretch !

Help please

Glo

Well... I guess that the reason why I haven't got such a good handle on the Maj/Min pentatonic variable is because I don't have an ear that is developed well enough to recognize it if I hear it...! It's just that I keep reading about it in the instructional books that I buy and thought that I would need it to sound "seasoned". Maybe I just need to get drunk and pick cotton for 40 years in the hot sun to sound like that... eh...?!

Thanx...!

Hi Mike -

Just repeating my offer from a month ago or so to help with the beta testing. I have an iPad and an iPhone.

Best Regards,

Bruce

Duke I'm listening to your blue mood album where you are the cover t-bone songs. i am amazed by how close your sound is to t-bones. Can you walk us through your set up in those recordings? I can hear an arch top guitar, very clean (almost too clean/acoustic - how?) no effects. Did you mic the acoustic output from the arch top separately? 

Also so I remember you talking t-bone changing where he picks to create an effect. I presume you do that too, in general, when playing in t-bone style?

many thanks

The current series of lessons by Dennis Gruenling features him playing in third position.