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How to Hold a Harmonica
Playing the Train on Harmonica
Single Note Pucker on Harmonica
Playing Shuffles on Harmonica
Notation Harmonica Lesson
Playing the Blues on Harmonica
Bending Notes on Harmonica
Ear Training for Harmonica
Tremolo Harmonica Lesson
Blues Harmonicas
Chromatic Harmonicas
Caring for Your Harmonica
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Summary: Play the harmonica like a Blues Brother; learn about different types of blues harmonicas in this free video harmonica lesson.
" Hi this is Jim Luke again and we’re going to talk about the different kinds of harmonicas now. Specifically, the ten hole diatonic or blues harp known to many people. This kind of harmonica is often played and mostly played in what’s called a cross position. Where you are drawing on most of the notes rather than blowing. So you don’t want to play in the key shown you play in another key. For example, when you have a harmonica in the key of D you are actually going to play it most of the time in the opposite key or the key of A. And that’s why we call it blues harp because when you draw those notes that’s the ones you can bend. Now there are a whole bunch of other tunings though for these 10 hole harmonicas. One of them is a Minor key; that gives you a whole different sound than a regular Major key harmonica. There are also a number of new tunings available. Lee Oscar has a new melody maker and there is a country, a harmonica country tune, that is a very nice one as well. All these are going to give you a different sound than the standard ten hole diatonic blues harp. Thanks a lot."
eHow Article: Blues Harmonicas
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bemused said
on 8/2/2008 Now i know what cross harp means,been a long time finding out.Most experts seem to skip over the very basics and leave us beginners building on quicksand.Thank you for the foundations Jim.