What People Say about Harmonica Academy and Tony Eyers

"It is obvious that Tony is a professional educator. He has laid the site out to be very user friendly. You really feel like you are taking a journey into a true place of higher education. Which of course it is! What higher calling could you be pursuing than to become a proficient player on the diatonic harmonica...."

Review on harp-l by Warren Bee USA
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"Hello and happy new year! I've suscribed last week to your wonderful website. I'm a "pro" french Blues harp player (www.myspace.com/thomastroussier) and I thanks you so much for the new way to play that you offers to me. I learn a lot because I never studied scales, harmony....before! I discover a new approch of the harp and I just want to THANKS YOU"

Tom Troussier
Leading French Blues Harmonica Player

"I discovered this super concise and melodic bluegrass harmonica player with a touch of the irish!! His playing is exceptionally concise and musical. I recommend his music highly."

Randy Singer
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Leading Jazz Chromatic Player

I've explored Tony's Harmonica Academy at http://www.HarmonicaAcademy.com and was very impressed. Very well organized, easy to navigate, professionally laid out, and it offers different types of guidance, including jam tracks for blues and hip hop (Band In a Box), harmonica exercises with tabs with sound clips, and informative articles.

If you play blues, country, old-timey or bluegrass on diatonic, I strongly suggest you visit this site, created by one of the best bluegrass harmonica players I've heard. Even as a chromatic player, I found Tony's insights valuable.

David Naiditch
USA
Leading Bluegrass Harmonica Player

I took a good look around your site and I really like what you've done. It's well worth the money you're asking--you've clearly worked hard and done a thoroughly professional job.

Ron Good
Canada

"Black Mountain Harmonica is a relentless acoustic onslaught of wonderful sparkling traditional fiddle music played with consummate skill and competence"

John McDougall
"Woodstock", Australia

"WOW! Can't believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I have a cd of you and it rocks!My teacher tried to give me some stuff of you (but still have to practice a lot before playing something that sounds "like" that), we bought the disc through internet cause in argentina there isn't this kind of things!It's awesome!You are an excellent harp player and I'm a great fan of you!!!!!!!!"

Wadi Jalil Maluf
Argentina

"I recently signed up on our 2 year programme and find it extremely helpful and frankly just about the only programme that deals with the subject in an organized way"

Geoff Barrett
Canada

"Your lessons are clear, concise and extremely effective. Priced right (for us po'folk)."

Gary Byrd
USA

Your website is fantastic I have learned much from it and I have not completed it. I expect to learn so much more.

Keith Newberry
USA

I have so enjoyed your lessons and the site. I am almost ready to go to the next level of songs and feel comfortable in my progress.

Katie Kee
USA

First i want to tell you that i'm really satisfied with this course. I've been trying to learn harmonica playing for some time so i am not a pure beginner, but this course gave me a new start.

Svein Lars Kroken
Norway

I just wanted to send you a short note to let you know how much I am enjoying my subscription to the Harmonica Academy. You have done a great job of putting this course together, and I have already recommended it to two other new harmonica players.

Chuck Fehl
USA

I joined harmonica academy recently after reading your articles in Harmonica World. I've been playing for some time but I'm always up for learning new stuff. Your material is gr8. Thanks for the help.

Liam Kealy
UK

I just started Harmonica Academy a month or so ago, and I already know quite a bit more than I expected. Also, the lessons so far are wonderfully done and very helpful, with the pictures and music accompanying them. I just want to say, even though I've only just started this journey, thank you very much!

Josh Caldwell
USA

Just downloaded and listened to your CD. You are truly amazing! My dad was born in County Cork, IR so I grew up with the Clancy Bros, Dubliners, Sarah Makem, Paddy Tunney, etc. Your playing brought me back to those years. I'm in awe of your speed and breath control. I just started the course and trying to find my starting point since I have been tinkering with the harp for a few years. I thought I was only interested in blues but listening to your foot stomping tunes I think I might TRY and persue fiddle tunes as well. I just wanted to say thanks so much for putting together the course and especially for the free download of your GREAT CD.

Alan Lyons
USA

Thanks very much for this new set of blues backing tracks. I reached the final phase of "Junior Year" and the beginning of "Senior Year" in the Academy´s Site. As a matter of fact, I have been playing everyday with the Blues backings you offer and also with other ones available online. I confess, I have not managed yet to record myself playing and send you a mail. I´ll hope to manage to do it some day. As for the great success of the Academy´s Site, I hereby send you my congratulations, since it is the first time I have been learning a musical instrument for sure. I remember you that I learned the cello during my youth, but I never played anything worth. Now, for the first time, I enjoy what I play, as some friends also do.

Filipe Mesquita
Portugal

I really appreciate your website. The explanations are so simple. Now I've got the tools to play Blues and Irish tunes.

Thanks from Quebec, country of reels and jigs.

Claude Tanguay
Canada

An excellent resource for anyone wishing to learn to play the harmonica through online lessons, the site is well set out with sequential lessons which are easy to follow, particularly with the assistance of the online audio samples. There are a lot of useful free areas and a subscription gives students access to all lessons and resources, including a members’ forum. Navigation of the site is easy; with the Study aids area providing backings in Blues and hip hop tracks that allow students to jam along. The site has syllabus application for the teaching of blues and improvisation in jazz.

Review in "Scan"
Vol 65 28 No 3 August 2009
Australia

I'm a freshman student and am having a great time following your lessons. By the way I have taken years of lessons on other instruments. I tried once before to play harmonica with books and tapes--with no results. It is so useful to go along at the detailed level you teach at. Also, what a pleasure to be part of a learning community.

Richard Groomer
USA

I have to say thank you thank you so many times. You are terrific educator. This is what I was looking for. Easy to understand, clear, and well organized...... Learning harmonica using this program is much better than take lessons from pro. I'm really satisfied with this program. I payed for two years lesson. It is money worth. Thank you again!!

Julie Hiromi Iso
USA