please. I'm so clueless I didnt even know that there were separate harmonicas for separate keys GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO PLAY THE HARMONICA
How to play the harmonica?
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How do you play sharps and flats on a harmonica?
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What does it mean to play in different positions or modes?
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Why can鈥檛 you change position in order to change the key you are playing?
Because you also change the mode when you do that!
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Minor keys?
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Do you need big hands or any other quality or talent to play the harmonica?
No, everyone plays differently anyhow!
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If you have to play well to enjoy it, you are 95% certain to fail.
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Where can I find song lyrics?
http://www.sing365.com
Where can I find free harmonica music online, and how can I learn to play for free?
www.Harptabs.com
http://www.volcano.net/~jackmearl/
Everything I鈥檓 giving you here is free and online! Harptabs has catagories of songs in it鈥檚 search engine. About 2000 songs!
How do you play drones, or one long continuous note?
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Can I get someone to teach me how to play the harmonica online?
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What are the best and most popular songs to play on the harmonica? I鈥檓 looking for something to help with learning!
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Free sheet music, as opposed to tabs? Lots of luck finding anything you want for free!
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www.Sheetmusicdirect.com
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE HARMONICA ITSELF!
Which harmonica should I buy?
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Diatonic!
Hohner; Hand Made; Golden Melody; Special 20; MS Big River; Blues Harp, Pro Harp
Lee Oskar
Seydel Blues: Session; Soloist, Soul鈥檚 Voice marketed by Bushman Music
Hering: 1923
Suzuki: HarpMaster
Tremolo and Octave!
The better Huangs and Hohners. All Seydels are good. The Seydel Concerto and the Hohner Autovalve are excellent. Keys D to G are best in both models.
What key should I buy?
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Where can I buy a harmonica? Online! They won鈥檛 let you test them in a music store except with a bellows. Online prices are pretty good anyhow.
http://www.coast2coastmusic.com
http://www.harpdepot.com/
http://www.1847.com
http://www.harphouse.com
How much should I pay for a harmonica?
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How do I tune, gap, and maintain a harmonica?
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My harmonica is broke, how do I get warranty work done?
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How to clean a harmonica?
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Is there a computer program to convert music and sound files to harmonica tabs? No!
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Download at guitarpro.com if you want to do this with sheet music.
Where can I get a harmonica engraved or gold plated?
http://www.goldharmonica.com/engharps.ht...
What is the old harmonica that I inherited worth? Nothing! There鈥檝e been more than a billion harmonicas made in the last 160 years.
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Good tuners?
http://www.download.com/AP-Tuner/3000-21...
http://www.amazon.com/Peterson-StroboSof...
http://store.strobosoft.com/Merchant2/me...
http://www.petersontuners.com/
Tools
http://www.grizzly.com/products/h7545
http://www.grizzly.com/products/g9615
http://www.grizzly.com/products/h1421
http://www.grizzly.com/products/h3129
http://www.grizzly.com/products/h6156
http://www.grizzly.com/products/h8164
http://www.grizzly.com/products/g7086
http://www.ares-server.com/Ares/Ares.asp
http://www.micromark.com/
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Just intonation explained?
http://www.kylegann.com/tuning.html
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/studio/rpro...
Music theory is easy with a harmonica!
http://www.angelfire.com/music/HarpOn/in...
http://www.soundfeelings.com/free/chords...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mea...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_key_f...
Someone with more expertise if you don鈥檛 like my advice?
http://patmissin.com/index1.html
http://www.hunterharp.com/huntmenu2.html
www.Harmonicalessons.com
www.Harmonicastore.com
http://harp-l.org/pipermail/harp-l/
http://www.angelfire.com/music/HarpOn/in... harps are diatonic,basically. diatonic means played within a certain key....other instruments are chromatic,,,one can play in any key on a chromatic instrument..ie a guitar,a piano,a flute and so on,,,,,,to play within the key of F ,one would need a F harp,,,to play in the key of A ,one would need a A harp...
further ,,, on to play blues harp in the key F,one would need a Bflat harp..to play blues in the key of A,,one would need a D harp......and so on......
if you want to learn to blow harp,,, it is one of the few instruments,,that every one thinks that they can master in a short time,,,it is one of the most easiest,and in the same breath,hardest instruments, to play...............
been playing blues flute, and harp for over 36 years..
take care,,,,,, a working musician.
D Hi,
You've chosen a beautiful instrument to pursue. Harp (in the hands of a qualified player) can be an incredibly beautiful instrument one second, and a deamon-like growling roar of thunder the next. With the right mic and amp, you can really conjure the same kind of textures and sonic pallatte as a great rockin' guitar. There is more to harp than most realize.
Playing a "D" harp when a band plays "A" Blues, or playing an "F" harp when a band plays "C" Blues is called "Cross Harp" Generally, you wanna be a fourth (4th) above the band. That gives you the nice combination of the major 3rd and the flatted-7th of the key the band is playing in.
There are chromatic harps. A chromatic harp allows you to sharp or flat any note. If you wanna hear a good example of chromatic harp, listen to "For once in my life" by Stevie Wonder (and yes, that is Stevie Wonder playing that brilliant harp over those complicated changes), or "I guess that's why they call it the blues" but Elton John (and not, that is definitley NOT Elton John playing that pretty Bluesy harp!)
If you intend to play amplified, you want to find a good "Bullet Microphone" this is a mic that literally looks like a bullet. A Sure SM-58 will do, but an old "Bullet Mic" really has the authentic sound you are looking for.
If you really are into Blues Harp, listen to "Sugar Blue" He is one of the true living craftsmen of Blues Harp.
free to contact me at my website: http://www.american-guitarist.com if you have any follow-up questions.
Good Luck!
Kevin Chisholm - American Guitarist I love blues but don't play blues harp. (I play guitar.) The only thing I can tell you is who the best blues harpists are. You probably already know most of them:
Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musselwhite, Little Walter (Jacobs), Norton Buffalo, James Cotton, Magic Dick (J Geils Band), Al Wilson (Canned Heat), John Popper (Blues Traveler), Darrell Mansfield, Big Walter (Horton), Pat Ramsey, Carey Bell, Mark Hummel, James Montgomery, Mojo Buford, Charles Sayles, Billy Boy Arnold, Sugar Blue, William Clark, Jack Bruce, Jimmy Powers, Junior Wells, George "Harmonica" Smith, Johnny Winter
The top jazz harmonicist is definitely Toots Thieleman.
As for the separate blues harp for eack key, thats true. They often wear belts with a slot for eack harp key. Keep in mind that blues or any music is only in certain keys. They probably don't have one for every key. |
