10 Songs That Taught Me Harmonica (Easy to Hard)
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Here are the harmonica tabs in C for this first, easiest, beginner way to play Mary Had a Little Lamb, a good one to learn, even if today is your very first day playing the harmonica.
1. Mary Had a Little Lamb
45 -34 34 -34 45 45 45
Ma-ry had a lit-tle lamb
-34 -34 -34 45 56 56
Lit - tle lamb, Lit - tle lamb
45 -34 34 -34 45 45 45
Ma-ry had a lit-tle lamb
45 -34 -34 45 -34 34
Her fleece was white as snow
Here are the harmonica tabs in C for Mary Had a Little Lamb:
1b. Mary Had a Little Lamb - Single Notes
5 -4 4 -4 5 5 5
Mary had a little lamb
-4 -4 -4 5 6 6
Little lamb, little lamb
5 -4 4 -4 5 5 5
Mary had a little lamb
5 -4 -4 5 -4 4
Her fleece was white as snow
Here are the harmonica tabs in C for “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.”
2. Row Row Row Your Boat
4 4 4 -4 5
Row, row, row your boat
5 -4 5 -5 6
Gently down the stream
7 7 7 6 6 6 5 5 5 4 4 4
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
6 -5 5 -4 4
Life is but a dream
These are the harmonica tabs in C for “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”
3. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
4 4 6 6 -6 -6 6
Twinkle, twinkle little star
-5 -5 5 5 -4 -4 4
How I wonder what you are
6 6 -5 -5 5 5 -4
Up above the world so high
6 6 -5 -5 5 5 -4
Like a diamond in the sky
4 4 6 6 -6 -6 6
Twinkle, twinkle little star
-5 -5 5 5 -4 -4 4
How I wonder what you are
Here are the harmonica tabs in C for how I learned to play Oh Susanna.
4a. Oh Susanna! (Fast tabs)
4 5 6 6 6 -6 6 5 4
-4 5 5 -4 4 -4
4 5 6 6 6 -6 6 5 4
-4 5 5 -4 -4 4
-5 -5 -6 -6 -6 6 6 5 4 -4
4 5 6 6 6 -6 6 5 4
-4 5 5 -4 -4 4
4b. Oh Susanna! (More accurate tabs)
4 -4 5 6 6 -6 6 5 4
-4 5 5 -4 4 -4
4 -4 5 6 6 -6 6 5 4
-4 5 5 -4 -4 4
-5 -5 -6 -6 -6 6 6 5 4 -4
4 5 6 6 6 -6 6 5 4
-4 5 5 -4 -4 4
5. The Train Imitation
Da’ Whistle
-34 -34
“Dwah Dwah”
Da’ Chug
-123 123 -14 14
“Takata Hoo”
Here are the harmonica tabs to play the Cross-eyed Cat riff on the harmonica:
6. Cross-eyed Cat by Muddy Waters
-5 5 -4 4 -3 -4
Here are the harmonica tabs in C for “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
7. Bethoven’s 9th Symphony “Ode to Joy”
5 5 -5 6 6 -5 5 -4 4 4 -4 5 5 -4 -4
5 5 -5 6 6 -5 5 -4 4 4 -4 5 -4 4 4
-4 -4 5 4 -4 5 -5 5 4 -4 5 -5 5 -4 4 -4 3
5 5 -5 6 6 -5 5 -4 4 4 -4 5 -4 4 4
Here are the harmonica tabs for “You Got to Move”
8. You Got To Move
-2 -3 4 -4
-4 -4 -4’ -3 -2 -3
-4 -4 -4 -4 4
-4 -3 -3 -2
-1 2 -2 -3
-3 -2 2 -1
-2 -2 2 -2
Here are the harmonica tabs to Low Rider:
9. Low Rider
-3 -3 -3 -3 -3 4 -4
3 -3 4 -3 3 (Repeat)
-2” -2” -2” -2” -2” -2”
-2” -2” -2” -2” -2” -2”
-2” -2
Here are the harmonica tabs to Peach Tree by Sonny Boy Williamson:
10. Peach Tree by Sonny Boy Williamson
-2 2 -2 -3 4 -4’ -4
-2 2 -2 -3 -3 -2 2 -1 (2)
-2 2 -2 -3 4 -4’
-4 -4 4 -4 -3 -2 2 -1 2 -2 -2
Those “small” songs are extremely important and even can prove how advance a player is: bringing Colours in them !
Well said.
That's perfect for me 😅 i should learn all the song we play for our children😂😂
I lerned in completely differant way. When I was in my thirties a friend brought a hamonica in to work with him and played Oh, Suzzanna. Kater I bought a five dollar (C) harp and learned the scale. THen I learned where the notes were on some sheet music. After that I simply played single notes using my tougue to block all the holes except the ones I wanted to play.
I didn;t learn on children songs, Ilearned on folk songs like Oh Suzzanna and On Top Of Pld Smokey. But since I could read misic by this point I wanted to expand. WHat music I found easy to find was chiurch hynals. LAter I learned some roack and roll and country.
I met a man who was 89 years old and played on the radio when he was a teenager. I listened to him play in church many nights and learned how to lift my toungue at the right time to add the harmony behind the melody. His favorite song was :"He'll Set Your fields On Fire."
SInce those days I Competed in the State of Ohio harmonica contest and came in second twice. I have about 100 songs memorized, from folk, rock and roll, country and hymns.
I am 71 years old and use to known as the harmonica player who preached. Then I was United Methodist preacher for fifteen years and was known as the preacher who played the harmonica. After I retired from the ministry I am now just known for playing the harmonica.
Hoo hoo hee. I get to post the first comment here. My first song was "Moon River" (sang by Audrey Hepburn), played without bending. Now I want to play with bending.
Aw Moon River. What a great great great song. Thanks for the note.
I bought my first Harmonic at around 16yrs old. The package insert had one song included. It was Oh! Susanna and eventually I was able to play it really fast. Over the years, I'd pick up the harp occasionally and learned how to play a couple of songs with my guitar e.g. Neil Young, Ozark Mt. Daredevils etc.
But then I got hooked on the Blues and bought more harps in most keys; the Marine Band cost six bucks at that time and I still have and use them. Now at the ripe ole age of 69, I can fake the blues which sounds okay. At least, the guy I jam with says so!
The harmonica has its magic to make a nursery song sound like a romantic song
Loving it man😊 whatever people says, the nursery rhymes are the best when it comes down to basics 🔥...need more nursery rhymes ❤
Most definitely!
My first tunes were probably ‘Oh Susanna’ ‘Home On The Range’ and ‘H.A.P.P.Y’ ( the theme tune of 70s U.K. hospital sitcom ‘Only When I Laugh’). I then learned ‘Jug O’ Punch’ and ‘Dirty Old Town’ before learning all the riffs in Jon Gindick’s ‘ Blues and Country Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless’. I also played ‘You Gotta Move’ at around this time from the Stones version. It’s still my go-to tune when I just want to chill out. Because I was using Lee Oskar harmonicas I felt it my duty to learn the harmonica part to ‘Low Rider’. Once I’d got a basic handle on the blues I started learning as many blues riffs as I could.
This is the best video I've seen you do yet. I'm working on the hard songs/riffs tonight. Keep it up!
Aw ,Thank you for your kind words. I really appreciate it! Rock on! 😎
This was such a delight man! I will follow you and try to use my old harmonica.
Sweet! Rock on! 😎
There’s always a nugget to be gleaned from all of your videos. I’ve been working on my bent vibrato for years now and was never satisfied with it. Your simple explanation and example did the trick for me. You’re a gifted teacher. Thank you!
Great to hear Francisco! 👊🏼🔥😎
I play almost like you🤣🤣 I enjoy listening to you and learning. I've been learning from you a year and I've made a lot of progress.Thank you my friend!🤘
That is awesome! Thanks for the note. Rock on! 😎
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Great tutorial thank you
Thanks for this content man. Feedback for you: 1. You are very funny and that makes the video easy to watch 2. Great harp playing, 3. You are a good teacher, it's easy to learn new stuff. Thanks again!
Much appreciated! 🙏🏼 Rock on! 😎
Thanks!
I was on my own for the first year - didn’t know about blues or much of anything. I learned bugle calls. Reveille, taps and such. My inspiration for train t-k-t-k stuff came later with the scat singing of Indian music when they vocalize the tabla part.
Very cool Stephen. Ta-Ka-Di-Mi 😉
Nice job with the new content man. Thanks for producing these! 🙏
My pleasure!
Tu canal es sensacional, estoy empezando con la armónica y tus videos son todo un tesoro de información, yo estoy en el punto en que no puedo saltar celdas por que no calculo bien. Un saludo
Hey Luke 👋
This is just a great video 👏.
So much content and some really good tips for technique and expression.
Just really enjoyed this & it's 1.40am , chill time after work.
Thanks again Luke, keep em coming 🎼😁👏👏👍👍🏴
Awesome, thank you! Rock on! 😎
Luke's tut on 1,2,3 stops in Piano man❤
Luke! This is a great lesson and video. Thanks!
You're welcome. It's my pleasure. Thanks for watching! 😎🙌🏼🎶
Luke, you have mad skills as a harp player and video editor! All of your tutorials are sooooo freak'in cool! Do you sometimes get tired of your own awesomeness? :) Keep up the great work brother!!
LOL. Thank you for your kind words. I really appreciate it! Rock on! 😎
Now ya tell me lol.
And what a difference it makes. 👋🤠🎶
Hi! Glenn from Tokyo. Thanks for that video it was helpful.
You're welcome Glenn! Glad it helped. Rock on! 😎
De retour !!🎉
Hey Luke, I love your videos. I only started learning properly about 2 months back after messing about with the harmonica on and off for years, and I have progressed greatly with your help. Thank you.
One thing I am struggling with, though, is identifying what other players are doing when I am trying to learn a song or solo. The one I am trying to figure out at the moment are Steven Tyler's two awesome solos on Killing Floor with Slash and Brian Johnson. Could you help me? 😊
Yeah that's a D harmonica in 2nd position, playing in the key of A
Starts -2-2 -3 4 -4
-4 -4 -4 4 -3
That should get you started. Rock on! 😎
@Harmonicacom Thanks, Luke, a great start. I'll persevere with it and, of course, keep up with your technique lessons to get sounding great when I crack it. 😁
Blacked out first time trying the train imitation 😂 Still working on my breathing skills
Yeah, take it nice and slow, with a metronome. 👊🏼
This is a terrific new lesson. Luke, please teach us overblowing… been searching for it far and wide but it’s still a mystery. Help!
I don't recommend worrying about overblowing until you've mastered ALL your draw bends and blow bends with utter control. Then, if you wanna learn OB, I recommend buying a Spiers Stage II+ custom harmonica which will set you back $250+
Loving this
👊🏼
Can you teach us some simple mournful slow blues lesson series i think this would be a great easy learning to for is all thank brotha
Great stuff
Play them tongue blocked, ala` Dave Barrett? Or lip puckered? I'm not too too 'bad' at lip puckering now, after a few weeks, but tongue blocked style is a bit more challenging. Dave is all about the tongue, but many people do the pucker.
I can bend the notes (mostly, not quite to pitch on demand , lol) puckered style, but tongue block is another animal.
Yes, agree with all. I'm doing lip blocking (that's what I call "pucker") in this vid cos that's all I did for my first 25 years playing. I started learning TB-ing 5 years ago. It's a must for Chicago-style blues and pre-war styles like Deford Bailey and Sonny Terry. But not everybody wants to do that. It's all in what you want. Here's my vid on TB-ing: ua-cam.com/video/uydniqDfAf4/v-deo.htmlsi=Jz8dYe_tesIa31On
@@HarmonicacomMuch appreciated...ya, I figured for the type of tone I want, I've got no choice to get a bit of t.b. down .thanks a bunch!
can you do a tutorial for playing "Run with the wind"? It's a song from my childhood series Digimon. I would love to learn it. I found Tabs online but don't know what to do with it
Excellent! 👍
Thanks! 😎
Thx a lot for teaching, but pllz upload new lessons(#2)
👋Show!!. Great aproach.
Bruh I love you
Love you too. 👊🏼🎶
I used cool songs flintstones and Popeyes somewhere over the rainbow
Great ones!
Good ones!
Hahahahah I got all ten. That was fun bro! Thanks for the exercise!
Wooo hooo! Keep on rocking my friend.
Very entertaining video, thanks Luke. You gotta move " sounds like" Sitting on top of the world " What came first?
Sitting on top of the world was written in 1930. And you got a move wasn't first recorded until 1944, but I'm gonna guess that you gotta move was around First because it's an old traditional African-American spiritual. It could even go back to the 19th century. Just a guess though!
Thanks for the info Luke 👍✌️
This may be a long shot but do you think you could post a tutorial with tabs for the song “doing it wrong” the Stevie wonder solo? That solo got me into learning the Harmonica but the tabs are no where to be found 😭
I'm trying to play blues like from the anime Cowboy Bebop
Nice!
What’s the song played in the background at 6:50?
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - You Don't Know How It Feels. The song that got me wanting to learn how to play \m/
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I’ve heard it a few times couldn’t find it anywhere!
Thank you!
Hey Luke ! Greetings from India ❤ , I am INSPIRED by your VIDEO, please guide me to buy C SCALE harmonica, brand ?
Sure thing! www.harmonica.com/which-harmonica-to-buy/
Luke. We need a lesson for canned heat's on the road shain
Silent night was my first...😂
Great one!
lol ode to joy was easy for me it’s a good octave song also
Oh yes I love doing it with splits droning on the -2 and 3 as well. Rock on! 😎
I could watch a 3 hours video like this
Thanks Gustavo. 👊🏼
First song sounded better with the double stops.
AGREED. Double stops increases blues horsepower (along with splits and chords.) I almost always like to mix some double-stops in when I'm playing a melody.
Hello! What is a blue numbers mean? bend?
Yeah those are notes that I like to bend into (but you don't HAVE to bend in order to sound right.)
@@Harmonicacom oh thanks! Really love your videos about harmonica, you are my distance teacher😂
Hello man i really need atvise i seen your vidio on relaxed mout posision but im to scared my sipt would ruin my harmonica eney tips pleas and tanks for the vidios man really helping me impress the girls 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just replied on the other vid. Oh, and also tap it out on your pants leg when you're done playing.
Merhaba sizi takip ediyorum fakat anlamıyorum videolarınıza türkçe altyazı eklerseniz çok güzel olur teşekkürler
I'm playing a Joe Spiers customized Marine Band Deluxe with custom comb by Todd Parrott.
This video is literally a bass buzz but harmonica
Never teach straight harp songs to beginners. Give them a cross harp riff and watch them grow and learn to improvise. Then teach them songs on cross harp. Thats when i started learning. Straight harp is a massive waste of time for beginners.
Thanks!
Aw thanks. 🙏🏼