This is the package I started learning from.

The lessons are great for learning to move around on the instrument, and for really getting the hang of those bends until you can do them in your sleep. Unforgiveably though, he doesn’t even hint at the form and function of blues music. You can learn a bunch of instrumental ditties right offa ole Don, but won’t have the faintest idea about things like chord changes, 12-bar structure, etc. Thinking back on it, I could swear for the early lessons (he begins by focusing on holes 6 – 4, working down rather than up) he has his students playing in in third position without even telling them.

Ultimately I emerged from this instructional material a lot more mobile on the harp and with the ability to bend, but utterly ignorant of even the fundamentals blues music. Now that I’ve learnt from other material (Dave Barrett, Adam Gussow, etc) I scarcely use anything I learnt from Don Baker. Maybe I’ll go back some day and draw on his phrasing here and there, but for the 20 euros I paid at Virgin Music for his DVD, I’ll remember him as a great player but a useless teacher with tacky dress sense and an overpriced and completely misconceived product.