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This fast, fun, hands–on guide helps you choose your first harmonica and shows you how to hold it, make your first sounds, and keep it clean and working well. Helpful diagrams show you how to shape sounds using your tongue, throat, and hands. Before you know it you’ll be playing melodies, chugging out rhythms, and bending notes with ease. You’ll also pick up some basics of music theory and learn how to read the notation and tablature for all the music in the book. Discover how to:
- Play right out of the box with little or no experience using an inexpensive diatonic harmonica in the key of C
- Make that wonderful wailing sound
- Create exciting rhythms and play solo
- Understand how the harmonica works
- Play all of the music on the Bonus CD
- Read tablature, educate your eye, and develop your ear
- Breath correctly while playing
- Bend notes up and down
- Play one harp in many keys
- Develop your style in blues rock, country, folk, and more
- Play with other musicians
- Work with a microphone to create great sounds
So stop dreaming and start playing! Harmonica For Dummies will get you wailing in no time!
Note: CD–ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
From the Back Cover
Are you hankering to play the harmonica? This easy–to–read, practice–oriented guide gives you step–by–step instruction to get you making music in no time! Even if you′re an experienced harmonica player, this book is packed with tips to take your playing to the next level.
Explore your first harmonica — learn how to hold a harp, make your first sounds, and keep it clean
Find your rhythm — play single notes and simple melodies; shape your sounds with your hands, tongue, and throat
Bend notes with ease — make that wonderful wailing sound
Grow beyond the basics — play one harp in many keys, hone your abilities with challenging melodies, and learn how to overblow
Play popular music styles — from blues and rock to country, folk, and Celtic
Take it to the streets — develop a repertoire of tunes, play with other musicians, amplify your sound, and perform for an audience
Open the book and find:
The basics of music theory
Helpful diagrams of tongue and mouth action
Music notation and tablature for all the music in the book
Tips for playing chords, scales, licks, and riffs
Advice on making simple repairs and upgrades
Info on nifty accessories
Harmonica resources and groups
Tuning layouts for all 12 keys of diatonic harmonicas
Bonus CD Includes
All the musical examples from the book, so you can play along and hear the sound you′re striving for
Audio files that let you either play along with the recorded harmonica or play solo with the backing band
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harmonica players of all levels. This book is an ideal introduction
for beginners in order to learn how to play the instrument without
getting bad habits. It is also a great help for intermediate players
to study more advanced technique. For advanced players, it shows the
way to dig into further possibility of the harmonica playing and
method of teaching.
What makes this book stood out among other instruction books is the
precise physical description of each technique. The author describes
what part of body we use for each technique and how to use it. They
are sometimes shown by the picture and easy to understand. This is of
course useful for beginners and intermediate players but it would also
be very helpful for advanced players who want to teach but can not
explain physically what is happening.
For example, the standard convention when showing a diagram of a harmonica note... Read more
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