About
Riccardo Grosso – Professional Harmonica Teacher
I am a professional harmonica player and instructor with over 25 years of experience in teaching and performing. I have worked with students from all over the world, helping beginners build strong foundations and advanced players refine their tone, technique, and musical language.
My teaching approach is clear, structured, and highly personalized. I focus on fundamentals such as breathing, tone production, bending, rhythm, and blues vocabulary, always adapting lessons to the student’s goals and level.
Alongside teaching, I am an active international performer and the author of a comprehensive harmonica method used by students worldwide. I have also received recognition and positive feedback from respected figures in the blues and harmonica community.
Whether you are just starting out or looking to deepen your musical expression and improvisation skills, my goal is to help you sound more confident, musical, and authentic on the harmonica.
Teaching Style
What I do is build the lessons around the student. Every single person has a different approach and different needs. That's what I focus on and build a path to the next level opening the doors to the knowledge adapting my teaching to the person I have in front of me. Every person can reach the same goals, only through different ways. My duty is to find, show and walk the student to the fastest and easiest path to reach that goal.
Curriculum
I see the music as a language and as a art. We don't wait a until a child is grown up to talk to him/her. So what I do is the same on music. I dive students into the music, let them listen to the music and once they get into it I'm explain them what is going on.
Then we start a path similar to what happens when you learn martial arts: first the basic techniques, then their application in music. Then we move forward to advanced techniques and their application in music. Meanwhile we explore harmonica, how is it build, music theory that's harmonica related. So from one lesson to the next one every student becomes more and more confident on music and improvisation, learning in the meantime all the harmonica related subjects including mics, amps and FXs.
I open a cloud folder for the student that's personal access only where they will find PDFs with exercises, subjects we touched during the lessons, MP3s with examples and backing tracks to play over and improve skills.
***Days and times of lessons to be agreed***
Credentials & Affiliations
Riccardo Grosso has been performing in USA, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, Germany, Denmark, Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Spain and is a very well known harmonica player. He performed as guest or as sideman with Blues Brothers Band, John Fhol (Dr. John), Johnny Sansone, Papa George and his harmonica style has been praised by media from all around the World and artists such as CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE, ROB PAPAROZZI from BLUES BROTHERS BAND, JOE ARNOLD from the MEMPHIS HORNS, DALE SPALDING from CANNED HEAT.
Seydel Harmonica Endorser.