Harmonica Sheet Music

Songs with Backing Tracks: These sound files are meant to be downloaded and then used as backing for your harmonica playing. These files are generated from the sheet music so they are exactly what is on the page with fancy instruments added into the mix.

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Songs are available to students by email. If you're just a person wandering the Earth and want copies of a song, send me an amusing email and we can chat about it.

Diatonic Daily Warm-ups

Monday: Kumbaya 4 PDF
Tuesday: Ode to Joy 5 PDF
Wednesday: Simple Gifts 6 PDF
Thursday: Shenandoah-ish 3 PDF
Friday: You Are My Sunshine 3 PDF
Saturday: When the Saints Go Marching In 4 PDF
Sunday: On Top of Spaghetti 4 PDF

Diatonic

Resources:

Diatonic Notes in C PDF
Practice Log PDF

Songs: (Those in red have backing tracks)

All My Loving ~5 (via email)
All Through the Night 7 PDF
Aloha 'Oe 6 PDF
Amazing Grace 6 PDF
Au Clair de la Lune 7 PDF
Black is the Color of My True Loves Hair ~6 PDF
Blowin' in the Wind 6 (via email)
Blow the Man Down 5 PDF
Brahms’ Lullaby 5 PDF
Buffalo Gals 6 PDF
By the Light of the Silvery Moon 5 PDF
Camptown Races 5 PDF
Colorado Trail 5 PDF
Down in the Valley 6 PDF
Edelweiss 5 (via email)
For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow 4 PDF
Ghost Riders in the Sky ~4 (via email)
Hallelujah 4 (via email)
Happy Birthday 6 PDF
Happy Birthday Blinky Style 6 PDF
Home on the Range 6 PDF
La Cucaracha 3 or 6 PDF
Love Me Tender 6 (via email)
Mister Bojangles 3 (via email)
Moon River 6 (via email)
Morning Has Broken 4 PDF
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean 6 PDF
Pop Goes the Weasel ~2 PDF
Puff the Magic Dragon 7 (via email)
Red Red Wine 6 (via email)
Soft Kitty 6 (via email)
Streets of Laredo 6 PDF
Taps 6 PDF
Tenting Tonight 6 PDF
Tom Dooley 6 PDF
Try to Remember 8 or 6 on chrome (via email) VIDEO
Wayfaring Stranger ~6 PDF
Wildwood Flower 5 PDF
Yankee Doodle 7 PDF

Chromatic

Resources:

Chromatic Scales PDF
Chromatic Notes in C PDF
Practice Log PDF

Songs:

America the Beautiful 3 PDF
As Time Goes By ~4 (via email)
Ash Grove 3 PDF
Ashokan Farewell ~5 (via email)
A Whole New World ~6* (via email)
Beautiful Dreamer ~5 PDF
Blue Moon 7 (via email)
Come Josephine in My Flying Machine 3 or 7 PDF
Daisy Bell 9 PDF
Danny Boy ~2* PDF
Do Re Mi 3 (via email)
Fly Me to the Moon 4 or 8 (via email)
Ghost Riders in the Sky 2 (via email)
Girl from Ipanema 6 (via email)
Hedwig’s Theme 2 (via email)
House of the Rising Sun ~3 PDF
It's Only a Paper Moon 3 (via email)
La Vie En Rose 8 (via email)
Last Rose of Summer 5 PDF
Leaving on a Jet Plane 5 (via email)
Minstrel Boy 3 PDF
Over the Rainbow 5 (via email)
Parting Glass PDF
Scarborough Fair ~3 PDF
Smile 5 (via email)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 4 (via email)
Summertime 6 (via email)
This Little Light of Mine 3 PDF
Tomorrow 3 (via email)
Unchained Melody 5 (via email)
Water is Wide 3 PDF
What a Wonderful World 3 (via email)

Holiday Tunes

Christmas Diatonic

Adeste Fidelis ~9 PDF
Auld Lang Syne ~10 PDF
El Noi de la Mare 5 PDF
First Noel 5 PDF
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 4 (via email)
Over the River and Through the Woods PDF
Silent Night 7 PDF
We Wish You a Merry Christmas 6 PDF

Christmas Chromatic

I’ll Be Home for Christmas 5 (via email)
In the Bleak Midwinter ~3 or ~7 PDF
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 3 PDF
O Holy Night 2 PDF
Silver Bells 4 (via email)
White Christmas 6 (via email)

Diatonic Easter

Peter Cottontail 6 (via email)

Ear Training for Harmonica

Try a few tunes on diatonic harmonica "by ear" without using sheet music. Try to guess what the next note is without writing anything down. Play the backing track in the MP3 player above and start on the hole listed after the name of the song: