Day 1. Introduction | Playharmonica

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30 day challenge/refresher - learn/re-learn to play the harmonica in one month!

Introduction to the course - one lecture a day - THAT'S IT

Trailer/promotional movie (4:09)
Day 1. Introduction (2:04)

Preparation

Day 2. Which harmonica do I need? 10-hole diatonic in C. (2:14)
Day 3. How should I hold the harmonica? (2:03)
Day 4. How should I breathe? (7:04)
Cleaning your harmonica - here's how, but brush your teeth before you play! (7:42)

Starting to play - very easy at first

Day 5. Breathing exercise (2:07)
Day 6. Six pointers on getting amazing tone (2:10)
Day 7. Various types of vibrato (2:21)
Day 8. Open mouth (2:23)
How do you like this stuff?

Taking on a few new skills

Day 9. Easy chugging (2:21)
Day 10. Sonny Terry chugging (2:24)
Day 11. Easy train sounds (2:20)
Day 12. Harder train sounds (2:35)
Day 13. Twelve bar blues (2:18)
How are you getting on? Let me check in with you!

Getting down to the fundamentals - single notes

Day 14. Single notes pucker embouchure (2:12)
Day 15. Tongue blocked style embouchure (2:42)
Day 16. Tongue blocked split notes (2:25)
Day 17. All 20 notes (2:31)
Day 18. C scale - doh, re, mi... (2:43)

Going a little deeper - getting tunes and melodies working

Day 19. Simple tune (2:31)
Day 20. Harder tune (2:31)
Day 21. Positional playing (2:37)
Day 22. Scales CDE&F (2:34)
Day 23. More simple scales (2:29)

Bending notes

Day 24. Bending hole 1 (2:38)
Day 25. Bending holes 45&6 (2:38)
Day 26. Bending holes 2&3 (2:39)

Essential scales

Day 27. Simple improvisation in C (2:32)
Day 28. Simple impro in G (2:09)
Day 29. Simple impro in Dm (2:24)
Day 30. Simple impro in Em (2:37)

Finishing off

Day 31. Wrapping up the course. (2:23)
Bonus - dynamics in music (2:57)

Day 1. Introduction

Let me introduce the course to you and tell you how it works.

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