BLUES HARMONICA VIDEO LESSONS
Each blues harmonica video lesson covers different topics: inside you will find effective and clear explanations, examples, diagrams, licks and riffs, tablatures, tutorials, useful for all levels students. Select what interests you and take a look at the preview. Each lesson has an average length of 20 minutes, entire blues harmonica masterclass covers approximately 7 hours of video lessons. Easyharp will reveal you all the secrets to have fun playing the blues harmonica.
01 - FIRST STEPS WITH THE HARMONICA
You will learn quickly blues harmonica basics necessary to start studying all different topics. You will be able in a few steps to play some simple licks, both in first and in second position. Video lesson lenght: 20 minutes
02 - HOLDING THE HARMONICA AND EMBOUCHURE
You will learn how to properly hold the harmonica in your hands and how to use your hands to manage your sound; you will learn how to play single notes, chords and rhythmic effects with different embouchures: puckering, open-mouth and tongue-blocking. Video...
03 - BREATHING
You'll discover how to properly use your diaphragm and you will learn to play breathing through the harmonica. With simple exercises you will gain a greater control of your sound and you will be able to perform even complex rhythms and progressions. Video...
04 - BASIC CHORDS AND ACCOMPANIMENT
You will learn to play basic chords you can find on the harmonica and to use them to create simple rhythmic accompaniments and even more complicated patterns alternating chords, single notes and tongue-blocking. Video lesson lenght: 18 minutes
05 - ARTICULATION OF THE NOTES
You will learn how to set and enhance individual notes attack and expression, through the use of syllables sound and throat tapping. Several examples and exercises are proposed to correctly develop the different techniques. Video lesson lenght: 21 minutes
06 - THE NOTES OF THE HARMONICA
You will discover which notes you can easily play with the harmonica and the ones you will find using the bending technique. Through the study of several interesting examples, you will learn to recognize each note through its sound and its musical...
07 - EFFECTS AND ORNAMENTS
You will discover several tricks to enrich your phrasing, you will learn the techniques of hand vibrato, throat vibrato, wah-wah, glissando, shakes, octaves and special effects such as the train whistle and its application. Video lesson lenght: 24 minutes
08 - BENDING DRAW NOTES - PART 1
You will learn how to lower the pitch of draw notes and you will gain a correct setting of the bending technique. Through simple and effective examples you will learn to correctly play the fourth hole draw half-step bent and the sixth hole draw half-step...
09 - BENDING DRAW NOTES - PART 2
You will develop the bending technique applying it on the third hole draw bending half-step, a whole-step and a whole-step and a half, on the second hole draw bending a half-step and a whole-step, on the first hole draw a half-step bent. Video lesson lenght:...
10 - SECOND POSITION - PART 1
You will discover why it is so common to play in a different key than the straight key of the harmonica. Note after note, even with the use of the bending technique, you will understand how to get a blues scale in second position. Video lesson lenght: 20...
11 - SECOND POSITION - PART 2
You will learn to recognize all the notes in the first six holes of the harmonica, you will find out some nice melodic possibilities offered by your instrument and how to play effective licks in second position thanks to the different notes available inside...
12 - BLUES SCALE - SECOND POSITION
You will discover all the secrets of the musical scale that characterizes the blues music and you will learn how to use the different notes of that scale playing the harmonica. You will enhance your musical language studying many effective blues licks and...
13 - MAJOR PENTATONIC SCALE - SECOND POSITION
You will extend the melodic possibilities of your instrument, you will learn how to use the notes of the major pentatonic scale in second position over the entire range of the harmonica and how to play some nice and effective licks with the use of this new...
14 - PLAYING OVER BLUES PROGRESSION - PART 1
You will learn to recognize the structure of a twelve-bar blues, its harmonic progression and how to play over it. You will learn to play a 12-bar shuffle, to build an effective recurring phrase, to transpose it on different chords and to play a...
15 - PLAYING OVER BLUES PROGRESSION - PART 2
You will learn to play a boogie song, you'll understand how to build a melody on the chords progression, you will play a minor blues, you will discover new possibilities within the structure of the blues playing a swing melody. Video lesson lenght: 21 minutes
16 - FIRST POSITION - PART 1
You will learn to play in the same key of the harmonica, you will explore the major pentatonic scale studying many nice new phrases, so that you will find out how it’s easy to use this scale on the entire range of the harmonica. Video lesson lenght: 13...
17 - BENDING BLOW NOTES
You will learn how to correctly apply the bending technique on blow notes too, you will play some effective blues licks using the eighth hole blow a half-step bent, the ninth hole blow a half-step bent and the tenth hole blow a whole-tone bent. Video lesson...
18 - FIRST POSITION - PART 2
You will learn to use the blues scale in first position on the higher octave and on the low octave of the harmonica. You will play many nice new licks that will enrich your musical language and will enhance your mastery on the instrument. Video lesson...
19 - THIRD POSITION
You'll discover how to play the blues scale in third position, you will play new licks using blues scale notes on the entire range of the harmonica, you will explore the unique sound of the third position and how to get a swing approach with the use of...
