Gary Jugert’s Big Book of Harmonica
Click HERE for our weekday class schedule and music and HERE for our video archive.
The main purpose of this website is to encourage you to make music on the harmonica melodically with other people and as a soloist. All sheet music posted is arranged for ensemble play with other musicians. It should also give you a more comprehensive view of how all music works and make it easier for you to tackle other instruments too.
Gary Jugert’s Big Book of Harmonica: I update the book regularly so don’t waste paper by printing it out. The Public Domain Version does not include modern songs under the haze of copyright protections so you can do whatever you like with them except sell the arrangements. If you plan to do something fishy, email me to get permission.
- Is this your first week here? You should start with these: PDF
- Published September 9, 2020: Public Domain Version: PDF
- Published: The Complete Version for students only.
Recordings of All of Our Songs!
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Need to slow these recordings down? Try these apps:
Video archives are HERE
Individual Files from the Big Book:
Member songs are available to students attending our daily workshops or by email if I know you.
Diatonic Daily Warm-ups
- Kumbaya 4 PDF
- Ode to Joy 5 PDF
- Simple Gifts 6 PDF
- When the Saints Go Marching In 4 PDF
- You Are My Sunshine 3 PDF
Diatonic
Resources:
Songs:
- All My Loving ~5 (members)
- 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 (members)
- Brahms’ Lullaby 5 PDF
- Buffalo Gals 6 PDF
- Colorado Trail 5 PDF
- Daisy Bell 9 PDF
- Edelweiss 5 (members)
- For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow 4 PDF
- Hallelujah 4 (members)
- Happy Birthday 6 PDF
- Home on the Range 6 PDF
- Love Me Tender 6 (members)
- Mister Bojangles 3 (members)
- Moon River 6 (members)
- Morning Has Broken 4 PDF
- On Top of Spaghetti 4 PDF
- Puff the Magic Dragon 7 (members)
- Soft Kitty 6 (members)
- Streets of Laredo 6 PDF
- Taps 6 PDF
- Tenting Tonight 6 PDF
- Tom Dooley 6 PDF
- Wildwood Flower 5 PDF
- Yankee Doodle 7 PDF
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Chromatic
Resources:
Songs:
- As Time Goes By ~4 (members)
- Ash Grove 3 PDF
- Ashokan Farewell ~5 (members)
- Beautiful Dreamer ~5 PDF
- Blue Moon 7 (members)
- Danny Boy ~2* PDF
- Fly Me to the Moon 4 or 8 (members)
- Ghost Riders in the Sky ~3 Harmonica Ensemble (members)
- Girl from Ipanema 6 (members)
- Hedwig’s Theme 2 (members)
- House of the Rising Sun ~3 PDF
- It’s Only a Paper Moon 3 (members)
- La Vie En Rose 8 (members)
- Last Rose of Summer 5 PDF
- Leaving on a Jet Plane 5 (members)
- Minstrel Boy 3 PDF
- Over the Rainbow 5 (members)
- Scarborough Fair ~3 PDF
- Smile 5 (members)
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 4 (members)
- Summertime 6 (members)
- This Little Light of Mine 3 PDF
- Wonderful World 3 (members)
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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 (members)
- O Holy Night 5 PDF
- 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 (members)
- In the Bleak Midwinter ~3 or ~7 PDF
- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 3 PDF
- O Holy Night 2 PDF
- Silver Bells 4 (members)
- White Christmas 6 (members)
Diatonic Easter
- Peter Cottontail 6 (members)
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Theory & Standard Notation
Send me an email for the answer sheets
- Drunken Sailor PDF
- Frère Jacques PDF
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody PDF
- My Spaghetti Monster PDF
- Merrily We Roll Along PDF
Big Book of the Future
Which ones you wanna do first? Requests: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Ain’t No Sunshine, Annie’s Song, At Last, Blowing in the Wind, Both Sides Now, Can’t Help Falling in Love, Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You, Can You Feel the Love Tonight, Close to You, Follow You Follow Me, I Will Always Love You, My Girl, We’ve Only Just Begun, Without You.
Harmonica Stories
Ethnic stereotypes aside, Hohner felt harmonicas were for everybody. (What the heck is going on with the Navy dude?!)
Read more about harmonica history in the Smithsonian: Industrial Espionage and Cutthroat Competition Fueled the Rise of the Humble Harmonica LINK
- First instrument played in space: Jingle Bells on a Hohner Little Lady harmonica by Wally Schirra
- Listen to some sheng ensemble music (the great grandfather of the harmonica) HERE
What do the Yankees baseball team and the history of harmonica share? “Harmonica Incident” LINK
Oldtime Central’s article on the early days of the harmonica is HERE.
Some Silly Stuff
LeBron James plays harmonica not as good as you.
Lanny and Deb had a gecko sneak into their house and hide behind the printer. When Deb plays harmonica the gecko comes out to listen. She’s the pied piper of harmonica. If being a musician doesn’t work out, she could go into the lizard wrangling business.
