Blues Chromatic Harmonica - basics; fun, easy and amazing!
This unusual style adds another string to your bow. It's powerful like a church organ and surprisingly simple - try it!
Watch Promo to get a sneaky peek!
Do want to cause a stir playing the harmonica? Use a Chromatic from time to time!
It's surprisingly easy to sound amazing on a chrom played in this 3rd position style.
I'll show you how to play the chords, the scales, how to get single notes, how to tongue block and many more techniques.
So get yourself a cheap chrom in C - 8 hole, 12 or 16 hole will do, and have a go at this.
Take a look and see if it will help you.
If you have a tune or subject that you would like me to teach please message me.
Ben Hewlett is a very experienced music teacher who is able to be very patient and methodical. Each lecture will introduce you to the next group of notes – usually just 4 new notes and that's it.
This method is very easy for you to pick up the tunes as they are repeated over and over again until you have got it. You can even re-run the video if you find it useful.
Take one course and learn your favourite tune. The try another. Remember you can always get your money back if you wish but otherwise you have lifetime access to the course.
Imagine how amazing it will feel when you whip out your harmonica and play this tune – your friends and family will carry you shoulder high in triumph. Hopefully they don't carry you out of town and dump you in the river, but hey, swimming's good as well.
The health benefits of playing the harmonica are well documented – google it. Your lungs get exercised, your lung capacity increases, aerobic movement is good for you, playing music makes you smarter they say.
You will have fun on your own and with your friends, and more oxygen to the brain will make you think you are having a good time so it's all good.
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Your Instructor
Ben Hewlett is passionate about teaching people like you how to play the harmonica really well.
Ben's video courses are here and if you prefer pesonal coaching and mentoring from Ben please visit www.harmonicamastery.com.
He works hard using his teaching skills to figure out how he can help you get better as a player, understand more, have more fun, and he hopes you will enjoy sharing his love of the harmonica and music in general.
He has attracted nearly 65,000 on-line harmonica students with 95,000 courses purchased and has nearly 5 thousand Youtube subscribers showing nearly 2 million views. They can't all be wrong!
Ben is the ex-Vice-President and ex-Chairman of HarmonicaUK - the community for UK harmonica players
He has been a full-time Professional Harmonica Instructor since 1995
Ben is a qualified harmonica teacher and was awarded the Accredited Diatonic Harmonica Teacher Certificate in 1993 - HTAB (Harmonica Teachers Accreditation Board, supported by Lee Oskar Harmonicas, HarmonicaUK and the International Harmonica Organisation)
Ben is a qualified music workshop leader and was awarded the Certificate of Music Workshop Skills (Goldsmiths University of London) in 1995
Ben is a qualified music teacher and was awarded the Certificate of Teaching - Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in 2002 (CTABRSM)
Course Curriculum
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StartChords - try this track from JimiLee.com (5:51)
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StartBlues in the Dark - George Harmonica Smith (4:26)
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StartBasic techniques to learn (4:24)
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PreviewTongue Blocking on the big Chrom (5:02)
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StartPlaying single notes in the Chrom (6:39)
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StartLearning some perfect scales to use in Blues (4:20)