Harmonica For Dummies

Description

An easy-to-follow guide that makes it possible to have you playing all kinds of musical styles on the harmonica in a flash. Yerxa guides you from breathing and exploring rhythm basics to finding your style, and putting your music out into the world.;What is this thing called harp? -- Becoming a harmonica owner -- Making your first harmonica sounds -- Relating to notes, scales, and chords -- I hear a melody : playing single notes -- Shaping your sound -- Enhancing your sound with your tongue on the harp -- Bending notes -- Positions : playing one harp in many keys -- Fancy playing : developing flair and speed -- Mastering new songs -- Behind the hidden treasure : bending notes up -- Rockin' and bluesin' -- Expressing yourself with some folk and gospel melodies -- Fiddlin' the night away with traditional dance tunes -- Putting it all together : your tunes, your band, your listeners -- Amplifying your sound -- Improving your harmonica with repairs and upgrades -- The part of tens. Ten (or more) ways to connect in the harmonica world ; Way more than ten harmonica albums you should hear -- Appendix A. Tuning layouts for all keys -- Appendix B. Audio tracks and video clips.;Introduction -- Getting started with harmonica -- Starting to make some music -- Growing beyond the basics -- Developing your style -- Taking it to the world -- The part of tens.;Presents information on the structure of the harmonica and describes techniques for breathing, relaxing, and counting time, forming chords and melodies, mastering songs, and playing with a band. What is this thing called harp? -- Becoming a harmonica owner -- Making your first harmonica sounds -- Relating to notes, scales, and chords -- I hear a melody : playing single notes -- Shaping your sound -- Enhancing your sound with your tongue on the harp -- Bending notes -- Positions : playing one harp in many keys -- Fancy playing : developing flair and speed -- Mastering new songs -- Behind the hidden treasure : bending notes up -- Rockin' and bluesin' -- Expressing yourself with some folk and gospel melodies -- Fiddlin' the night away with traditional dance tunes -- Putting it all together : your tunes, your band, your listeners -- Amplifying your sound -- Improving your harmonica with repairs and upgrades -- The part of tens. Ten (or more) ways to connect in the harmonica world Way more than ten harmonica albums you should hear -- Appendix A. Tuning layouts for all keys -- Appendix B. Audio tracks and video clips. Introduction -- Getting started with harmonica -- Starting to make some music -- Growing beyond the basics -- Developing your style -- Taking it to the world -- The part of tens.