harmonica

[stuckylad]

got given a couple of diatonic harmonicas (d) and (c) so anyone know of a good tabs site for blues or rock,gonna give it a try.i know i will be crap to start with but you have to start somewhere even at my age

[dacianfagaras]

Here are some useful lessons on youtube YouTube - harmonica lessons

[chroma]

Gagedan is pretty good.

I learned to play from listening to Bruce Springsteen, the river, atlantic city, the ghost of tom joad an the majority of Nebraska.
Also;
Head Over Feet : Alanis Morissette
Easy Wind : Greatful Dead,
The Wizard : Black Sabbath
Hello Operator : White Stripes
Bigmouth : Underworld (this will make your face hurt so be warned)
Sugar Mountain : Neil Young (hes kinda like the Boss with his harmonica laced tunes to be honest)

I learned by picking songs i knew inside out and played along to them, terribly to begin with but you gradualy get better when you get comfortable moving your tongue around in ways your really not supposed to and hitting bends/overblows.

Expect to suck really, really, badly and have the neighbourhood animals screaming you will improve though.

<3 My Marine Bands.
Even though they tend to give you skelfs in the gob when they get older due to the wood splitting from the moisture, or going out of tune from warping.

Id love to learn chromatic or even octave but im content enough just messing around on my diatonics and im decent enough now that i dont get complaints from the neighbours or fishermen within a half mile of my swim, by playing the same riff over and over and over and murdering it every time!
On that note EXPECT FRUSTRAION! you'll listen to a piece and think "HOW HARD CAN THAT BE?" generaly turns out to be "very."
It gets even funnier when you see a live act from a band who uses a harmonica section youve learned and they play it differently, then realise the crooked bastards just make it all up as they go and probably couldnt play back a piece on an album track if they tried!

Just pick what you know, bollocks to tabs!
They're often wrong or in the complete wrong key and dont translate well... Or refused to translate to an "A" blues scale when i first learned on that key. Keys will become a nightmare in a big hurry, is it 12tet tuned? Some are, some are not, like i said nightmare! Im not that musicaly minded so its all greek to me, i just know that no two harmonicas are made equal, My Honher Marine Band G sounds completely alien from my Lee Oskar Melody Maker G ??? doesnt make a bit of sense to me.

Listen to a track over and over then play by ear, step by step then remember the pattern (only to instantly begin to draw on a blow and bollocks it all up) thats what i wound up doing and it seems to have worked.

You get good and learn to improvise, so much so you'll keep one in your pocket ("A" blues resonates well with a standard "E" tuned guitar by the way) and jam with the local buskers like i do occasionaly in Glasgow

Harmonicas are a lot of fun and you meet some real characters by whipping out a tin sanny and going nuts.