General Discussion

So I got this Hohner Special 20 and it's in key of C. I was watching the LOA videos but they are in a different key. Am I in the wrong section or is this website not for harmonica in key of C? I think the website is for all harmonica, but I am new to this instrument and I can't seem to find the LOA for key of C. 

OK...I was playing about a month before I found BluesHarmonica.Com.  I had a pucker-like embouchure to get single notes. 

But then when I joined BluesHarmonica.Com I started practicing the tongue block. Now for about two months. At first I practiced both, but now do exclusive tongue block...

Today, I tried to do my previous embouchure and had totally forgotten how to do it....my quesiton...should I be trying to keep both embouchures or just totally go 100% tongue block?

thanks...

Hello. I've been fooling around with blues harps for more than 40 years, but never studied it with any teacher, so I'm here on the 30 days free test that came with a new harp I bought today. I already knew that I have a lot to learn, so I will follow the LOA, but in the mean time, here is my first, maybe wrongly placed and maybe stupid question. continue reading...

Hi, all. I'll be in Vancouver, BC December 19-29. If you'd like to get together for an in-person lesson, please et in touch (email mynamealloneword-at-yahoo-dot-com).

Thanks, and happyl holdidays!

having trouble downloading Amazing Slow Downer from the Roni music site. can anybody help

Does anyone here hold the harmonica the way filisko describes in his Harmonica Insights Videos? I find it very ergonomic, and it solves the problem I have on the discomfort caused by the uneveness of my shoulders when holding the harp. The problem I have with his method, is that he says the left index finder and thumb should always be connected to the face when sliding up and down the harp. I find it impossible to connect my left thumb and index with my face when sliding up and down and his video doesn't show him doing and how it works in a clear manner. continue reading...

Does anyone have the harp tabs for "Rock You Up" by

The Romantics?

Thanks

Otter35

I exclusively use PowerBender, and really love it. The best way I can describe it is a Richter in the bottom third, a PowerChromatic in the Middle, and a sort of Pentatonic Scale at the upper end. A couple of my favorite qualities is that there is no change of breath pattern and that all holes have draw bends. I kind of see it as being Richter like, but more intuitive to wrap my head around. continue reading...

Going through the interviews, I notice some folks who play the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd postion, have never explored the 4th, 5th or 12th positions. Andy Just, for example, says he uses the 2nd and 3rd position often, but has never explored the 5th or 12th positions. 

That makes no sense to me. Isn't the 1st position the same as the 4th, the 2nd same as the 5th and 3rd same as the 12th?

For example, on an G harp:

1st G Maj = 4th E Min 

2nd D Maj = 5th B Min

3rd A Min = 12th C Maj continue reading...

Hey people, continue reading...