Gary Jugert’s Big Book of Harmonica

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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.

• 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:

• TempoSlowMo for iPhones
• TempoSlowMo for Androids
• Audacity for Computer

Video archives are HERE

 

 

Individual Files from the Big Book:

Member songs are available to students attending our daily workshops.

Diatonic

Resources:

• Diatonic Notes in C PDF
• Practice Log PDF

Songs:

1. All My Loving ~5 (members)
2. All Through the Night 7 PDF
3. Aloha ‘Oe 6 PDF
4. Amazing Grace 6 PDF
5. Black is the Color of My True Loves Hair ~6 PDF
6. Brahms’ Lullaby 5 PDF
7. Buffalo Gals 6 PDF
8. Colorado Trail 5 PDF
9. Daisy Bell 9 PDF
10. Edelweiss 5 (members)
11. For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow 4 PDF
12. Hallelujah 4 (members)
13. Happy Birthday 6 PDF
    
14. Home on the Range 6 PDF
15. Kumbaya 4 PDF
16. Love Me Tender 6 (members)
17. Mister Bojangles 3 (members)
18. Moon River 6 (members)
19. Morning Has Broken 4 PDF
20. Ode to Joy 5 PDF
21. On Top of Spaghetti 4 PDF
22. Puff the Magic Dragon 7 (members)
23. Simple Gifts 6 PDF
24. Soft Kitty 6 (members)
25. Streets of Laredo 6 PDF
26. Tenting Tonight 6 PDF
27. Tom Dooley 6 PDF
28. When the Saints Go Marching In 4 PDF
29. Wildwood Flower 5 PDF 
30. Yankee Doodle 7 PDF
31. You Are My Sunshine 3 PDF

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Chromatic

Resources:

• Chromatic Scales (so far) PDF
• Chromatic Notes in C PDF
• Practice Log PDF

Songs:

1. As Time Goes By ~4 (members)
2. Ash Grove 3 PDF
3. Ashokan Farewell ~5 (members)
4. Beautiful Dreamer ~5 PDF
5. Danny Boy ~2* PDF
6. Girl from Ipanema 6 (members)
7. Hedwig’s Theme 2 (members)
8. House of the Rising Sun ~3 PDF
9. It’s Only a Paper Moon 3 (members)
10. La Vie En Rose 8 (members)
11. Last Rose of Summer 5 PDF
12. Leaving on a Jet Plane 5 (members)
13. Minstrel Boy 3 PDF
    
14. Over the Rainbow 5 (members)
15. Scarborough Fair ~3 PDF
16. Smile 5 (members)
17. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 4 (members)
18. Summertime 6 (members)
19. This Little Light of Mine 3 PDF
20. Wonderful World 3 (members)

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Holiday Tunes

Christmas Diatonic

1. Adeste Fidelis ~9 PDF
2. Auld Lang Syne ~10 PDF
3. El Noi de la Mare 5 PDF
4. First Noel 5 PDF
5. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 4 (members)
6. O Holy Night 5 PDF
7. Over the River and Through the Woods PDF
8. Silent Night 7 PDF
9. We Wish You a Merry Christmas 6 PDF

Christmas Chromatic

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

Diatonic Easter

1. 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.

Big Book of the Past

Here’s our video archives of all previous classes.

Harmonica Stories

Ethnic stereotypes aside, Hohner sent the message harmonica is 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.