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Weekday Harmonica Live

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Harmonica Ensemble

Friday at 2:30 pm Denver Time
Music includes guitar and ukulele.

First time here? You might want to watch the video above once or twice and click on the following links.

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Songs for the Week of November 28:

  • Warm-Up Scales on Your Own: Diatonic ~ Chromatic
    • Chromatic Scales: B Flat Major PDF
  • Daily Songs: Try to play without the sheet music.
    • 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
  • 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 PDF
    • 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 PDF
    • In the Bleak Midwinter ~3 or ~7 PDF
    • It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 3 PDF
    • O Holy Night 2 PDF
    • Silver Bells 4 PDF
    • White Christmas 6 PDF

Friday December 3 at 2:30 pm Mountain: Diatonic and Chromatic Harmonica Ensemble #233 December 3: Link to Join https://youtu.be/fKAo7duR2eM

 

Theory & Standard Notation for Harmonica

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  • Resource: Diatonic Notes in C PDF
  • Resource: Chromatic Notes in C PDF
  • Resource: Chromatic Scales PDF
  • Drunken Sailor PDF
  • Frère Jacques PDF
  • Go Tell Aunt Rhody PDF
  • My Spaghetti Monster PDF
  • Merrily We Roll Along PDF

 

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How to Play Harmonica

To help teach somebody else how to play, download all these slides HERE.

  • Wash your hands.
  • Brush your teeth.
  • Drink plenty of water.
  • Sit up tall and pretty.
  • Breathe from your belly.
  • Don’t blow too hard.
  • Pucker up. Gross!
    • Air needs to go through one hole at a time.
  • Kiss the harmonica … what?
    • Use your kissing muscles for your embouchure.
    • Your muscles and tongue also help you bend notes.
  • Be ready to “tooo” between every note.
  • Cup the harmonica with both hands.
  • Move your hands, not your face.
  • Harmonica tabs:
    • 4 blow
    • ~4 draw
    • 4* blow with button in
    • ~4* draw with button in
    • (456) use multiple holes for chords
  • Our sheet music includes ensemble arrangements for singers, pianists, guitarists, ukulele players, and any trained musician.

You should visit the Harmonica Library after you’re up and running.

 

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What type of harmonica should you buy?

 

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You’ll need a diatonic harmonica in the Key of C. Here are some choices in order of price our members have used successfully. The higher priced ones are better.

To play the advanced music you’ll need a chromatic harmonica in the Key of C. Here are some choices in order of price our members have used successfully. The higher priced ones are better.

  • (Low Price and has all 12 Holes) EastTop Forerunner: Amazon Price
  • (Industry Standard but Pricey) Super Chromonica: Amazon Price

 

Harmonica News…

Fédération Internationale de l’Harmonica “United In Music” – The 9th World Harmonica Festival 2021 was an online event

Video of both days: https://www.world-harmonica-festival.de/

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Contact:
Gerhard Müller / President FIH / info@world-harmonica-festival.de / + 49 7425 20 – 455