Harmonica?

[Xi Bowhunter]

Does any one know how to play the harmonica? I would like to get one, as there are several songs I have learned to play on the guitar that have a harmonica accompaniment. What is a good kind to start out on and what would be a good learning book or cd?

[Manzanita]

Blues King. Hohner. ...and one of those springy things that go around your neck to hold it while you play. I go through phases where I'll try to play it and I'll even learn a few songs but I never stick with it.

I remember a few pretty good online resources for harmonica technique but don't have the website addresses handy. I'm sure google can cough them up.

Be kinda hard to play one through that mask...

The type of harmonica you'll probably be wanting is a diatonic. This means they don't have the entire chromatic musical scale built in but are stepped around the key each particular harmonica is in. Most of the time you'll want to "cross harp" which means, whatever key the song is in, they "key" of the harmonica will be a fourth up from there. For instance, if your song is in "G" on the guitar, your harmonica for accompaniment willl most likely be a "C". Clear as mud?

[MsgMills]

XI, keep up with Les Stroud on Survivorman and he might be able to teach you a song or two......Man I like watching his shows and all the neat things he encounters on each survivor show he tapes. Didn't know the Hand cleaner he used in Alaska, while filming the Dog Team show was flammable. Learn something new each day for sure.

Good Luck on learning how to play that Harmonica, always thought it was a neat instrument and the music coming from one is easy listening.:)

[Xi Bowhunter]

Blues King. Hohner. ...and one of those springy things that go around your neck to hold it while you play. I go through phases where I'll try to play it and I'll even learn a few songs but I never stick with it.

I remember a few pretty good online resources for harmonica technique but don't have the website addresses handy. I'm sure google can cough them up.

Be kinda hard to play one through that mask...

The type of harmonica you'll probably be wanting is a diatonic. This means they don't have the entire chromatic musical scale built in but are stepped around the key each particular harmonica is in. Most of the time you'll want to "cross harp" which means, whatever key the song is in, they "key" of the harmonica will be a fourth up from there. For instance, if your song is in "G" on the guitar, your harmonica for accompaniment willl most likely be a "C". Clear as mud?
Thank you for the tip. I'm looking around as we speak.


And MSG, seeing him play that harmonica on survivorman is kind of what sparked the idea.

[quackrstackr]

Didn't know the Hand cleaner he used in Alaska, while filming the Dog Team show was flammable.



Drinkable too...

that's why it's been banned in prisons all across the country.

The inmates had figured out that they could just guzzle their handcleaner for a free drunk......

[pastorbass]

you can get free music lessons at www.musicmoose.org (http://www.musicmoose.org) - they come in clips like you tube clips and if you have some musical background they are fairly easy to follow. You can get harmonica, guitar, mandolin, about anything on there.

[yote hunter]

everybody raise your hands that like harmonica music







as much as accordian music:D