Comments on: How to Play the Blues on the Harmonica

on 10/10/2007 Drawing on the 2nd hole on a G harmonica gives you a D note (Step 12). Drawing on the 3rd hole of a G harmonica gives you an F# note. Bending it down a half step (if you can even do it) gives you an F note (Step 13). Blowing on the 4th hole of a G harmonica gives you a G note (Step 14). Drawing on the 4th hole of a G harmonica gives you an A note, (Step 15). Drawing on the 5th hole of a G harmonica gives you a C note, (Step 16). Blowing on the 6th hole of a G harmonica gives you a D note, (Step 17).
The information in Step 19 is wrong. When you are playing a scale or a song in the key of G on a harmonica in the key of C, THAT is called "cross-harping" or "2nd position". Use a harmonica that is 4 half-steps up the musical scale from the key of the song. A lot of (if not most) blues players use that technique.
Check out Sonny Boy Williamson, Sonny Terry, and Charlie McCoy.

on 1/16/2006 Jimmy Reed: A great blues harmonica player. I just picked up his greatest hits and it's brilliant!!

on 11/22/2005 Listen to the greats! Some personal favorites: Sonny Boy Williamson II, Sonny Terry, Junior Wells, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sugar Blue, James Cotton, James Harman, William Clarke.

on 11/22/2005 For info on the harmonica, go to http://www.garply.com/harp-l/archives to search for anything you are interested in that has to do with the harmonica. If you have searched for harmonicas on the Internet already, chances are you have found it before.

on 11/22/2005 Klutz Press's "Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless" by Jon Gindick is a MUST if you truly want to learn well and quickly. I have gone through that book and another by the same author and now play in a band because of it.

on 11/22/2005 Go to a club and watch these harp players in action. See how they cup the harp and mike. Some of these artists also teach. To play real Chicago blues' harp, you must learn the tongue-blocking technique!