Re: [Harp-L] My Name Is Rooty and I Am a Harmonica Owner

[Pierre <plavio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> My Name Is Rooty and I Am a Harmonica Owner.  I bought a harmonica today.

Yeah!

Since its a bit of a trick to learn to play single holes at first, try 
Clementine as chords as it sounds pretty good. Oh Susanah is pretty good 
too. Both can be started on 4 blow. Actually most folk tunes can be played 
from there on a C harp. It takes about ten hours to play single holes 
decently, not a big deal if you stick to it. Don't worry too much about 
small mistakes, they eventually go away.

Learn the major scale that starts on 4 blow. Most folk tunes are derived 
from that scale. Once you can play that, you can find many tunes you can 
think of.

Major scale: 4b 4d 5b 5d 6b 6d  (reverse the blow draw pattern from here on 
end) 7d 7b

Its a good idea to play chords and single notes all the way through 
otherwise you'll become half a harp player ;-). Once you can play single 
holes pretty well, you can learn bends.

Don't blow and suck, breathe thru the harp. While you try learning to bend, 
why not learn TB (or pucker), gives you something to do while your waiting 
for your first bend to pop out.

Canadian eh? Where you from? I'm from Montreal.

Pierre.