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Harmonica Blues is iconic - it speaks right to the heart. Saxophone blues is the same - people love it! This video is the best blues harmonica music; every song has a harmonica solo....
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- A Short History of The Blues
- The 12-Bar Blues Chord Progression
- The 12-Bar Blues Harmonica Chord Tabs
- How to Do A Harmonica Solo Over The 12-Bar Blues?
- Killer Harmonica Blues Vocabulary Tabs
- Telling Your Own Story
- What Are Some Harmonica Blues Tabs For Solos?
- Notes About The Harmonica Solo
- 2nd Chorus Notes
- 3rd Chorus Notes
I believe that understanding the history of the Blues will actually help you to play the Blues better, so consider taking a few minutes to read about it below. Historians generally agree that the Blues were born in the 1800s in the deep South of the United States, in an area called the Mississippi Delta, near New Orleans, and arose within the commu...
The 12-bar Blues is a chord progression that I think every harmonica player should become very familiar with. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that millions of songs have been written using this chord progression. Remembering this Blues form might be a lot easier if you observe that it’s made up of three phrases. Lyrically, the first two phrases...
A great Blues rhythm to play is on the 1st beat of each bar, and then just before the 3rd beat. This rhythm is sometimes called the “Charlestonrhythm” and if you happen to read music, it looks like this: If you checked out my Harmonica Chords for Beginnerslesson, you’ve already learned how to play the I and IV chords in second position. There is no...
I like to think about music as a language. Just as you have to learn vocabulary words when you want to learn a foreign language, so too you have to learn the musical vocabulary of any genre of music that you wish to play, in order to communicate effectively. It’s funny to me how some people want so badly to “be original” that they are averse to pla...
Phrase 1: the Question
-2 -3’ -4 4 -4′ -4 I’ve titled this little phrase “The Question” because it rises in pitch, just like we tend to raise the pitch of the end of a sentence when we are asking a question. This is played by playing the draw 2 and saying “oy”, then sliding to the right until you get to the draw 4, quickly switching to a loud blow on the 4, and then ending by playing the draw 4 and saying “oy” (or bending into it if you already can bend.) I have written the tabs to bend the draw 3 down a half-step,...
Phrase 2: the Answer
-4 -4’ -3’ -2 Why did I title this one “The Answer?” You guessed it. It descends in pitch, like we do when we answer someone’s question. It conveys a sense of certainty, finality, or rest. This one is pretty easy if you are getting pretty comfortable with bends. Just play the draw 4, bend it down, and then slide to the left until you land on the draw 2. If you’re not comfy with bending yet, just try saying “ee-aw” or “wa-oo” on the draw 4 and then slide down to the draw 2.
Phrase 3: the Trill
-4 -5 The world “Trill” means quickly going back and forth between two notes, in this case the draw 4 and draw 5 holes. You can accomplish this by moving the harmonica back and forth, by moving your head back and forth, or both. Whatever feels best to you! You can play the trill as slowly or as quickly as you feel like. Sometimes it can be fun to try to play it in time with the song. Also, try saying “oy” while you trill, or bending it, if you already know how to bend.
Any of these phrases can be played in any order. Below, I’ll play them in a certain order to give you one idea, but the whole point is to explore and to do what feels and sounds best to you. Don’t forget to relax, and have fun with this! Here are some ideas of ways you can change the vocabulary I’ve shown you, to tell your own story: ✓ Change the o...
The point of this recording and Blues harmonica tabs below, is to show that you really can play an entire Blues harmonica solo with just these 3 phrases, and sometimes repeating the first or last note of the phrase. In this solo, I play 3 times through the 12-Bar Blues form (labeled 1st Chorus, 2nd Chorus, and 3rd Chorus in the tabs.) Notice that v...
1st Chorus > 1st 4-Bar Phrase
The solo starts before the first beat of the first 4-bar phrase of the form (right after the 3rd beat of the count-off.) The Question is played so that the last note lands right on beat 1 and is held long, with a little hand wah. Next, the beautiful sound of silence. The beginning of a solo is an especially good place to leave space so that you can build excitement through the solo. After the space, I kind of slide up into The Answer, starting quietly and getting louder, followed by… more spa...
1st Chorus > 2nd 4-Bar Phrase
The Question is played again, with the highest note ending on beat 1 of the 2nd 4-bar phrase, but this time I play the top note twice, bending into it both times. Remember, if you cannot bend, just say “oy.” Then, more space! (Are you detecting a pattern?) Two more times on the same note “oy…oy,” followed by The Answer. After more space, I play the root note on a variation of the Charleston rhythm.
1st Chorus > 3rd 4-Bar Phrase
The Question is played again going into the 3rd phrase, exactly like it was going into the 1st phrase, except I play the first note twice then… more space! Then I kind of slide up into The Trill hold it for awhile, and finish it off by playing The Answer, and repeating the last note.
2nd Chorus > 1st 4-Bar Phrase
Going into the 1st phrase of the 2nd chorus, The Question is played, with the 1st note repeated, and this time goes straight into The Trill, which is held for almost the entire 4 bars. This time, the trill starts slower and gets faster through the 1st bar, is held through the 2nd bar, is bent on the 1st beat of the 3rd bar, “oy”, and is bent on every beat of the 4th bar “oy, oy, oy, oy”, the last one becoming the 1st note of The Answer.
2nd Chorus > 2nd 4-Bar Phrase
The Answer ends on the 1st beat of the 2nd phrase. After a pause, The Answer is played again, followed by more silence. Then The Question goes right into The Trill, which goes right into The Answer and is completed with a bend up into the -4, “oy”.
2nd Chorus > 3rd 4-Bar Phrase
The 3rd phrase starts with the -4 just mentioned, followed by space, followed by The Answer. Then I play The Question and repeat the top note eight times, bending it each time “oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy” which builds excitement into the 3rd chorus. That’s the power of repetition. That’s the power of repetition!!!
3rd Chorus > 1st 4-Bar Phrase
The 1st phrase starts with bending into The Trill, but the rhythm of it is tricky because I’m playing in a triplet feel. So the first triplet is -4 -5 -4, and the second triplet is -5 -4 -5, like this: Trip – a – let Trip – a – let Trip – a – let Trip – a – let -4 -5 -4 -5 -4 -5 -4 -5 -4 -5 -4 -5 I’m playing this until I run out of breath in the 3rd bar and end on the -4 draw bent down. I then play the -4 draw four times, bending it up each time “oy, oy, oy, oy.”
3rd Chorus > 2nd 4-Bar Phrase
The 2nd phrase starts with The Answer. After some more beautiful silence, I play The Answer again, followed by more silence. And then I kind of slide and bend up into The Trill, and then bend up into The Answer, followed by more space.
3rd Chorus > 3rd 4-Bar Phrase
The Question leads us into the 3rd phrase then Space. The Question is repeated, Space then The Answer, Space. Back to The Question, and ending on The Trill. And there you have it, a complete solo played with those 3 phrases and some repeated notes! Again, my point here is not necessarily for you to learn how to play my solo note for note, but just to show you that you can make up your own solo without having to know tons of stuff. I made these notes so that you can figure out what’s going on...
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Dec 13, 2022 · Dec 13, 2022. 3 min read. Top 5 Greatest Blues Harmonica Songs (Solos) of All Time. Updated: Mar 7. What are your favourite blues harmonica solos? In this video I'll run through what I think are the greatest blues harp solos of all time. (P.S. I have lessons for all of these songs. Click here for a free trial of my harmonica school)
