Bending notes involves changing the shape of the mouth to produce sharps and flats. Overblowing works on a similar principle, only with additional air forced out while blowing.
Another technique called cross-harping allows players to play the harmonica in all 12 keys by utilizing bending techniques. Instead of being dedicated to one instrument, young musicians, or professionals, MakingMusicMag.
We focus on providing educational articles teaching people how to play an instrument, but we also favor travel pieces, music related health articles, interesting news stories, and plenty more. Harmonica Basics Air enters the harmonica through its comb, which contains the air chambers that cover the reeds.
From Diatonic to Octave The most common types of harmonica are diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, and octave. Bending and Crossharp Developing your mouth in its approach to the instrument is one of the most difficult things for beginning players to learn. Sharing Facebook Twitter Email Print.
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Wonderopolis Mar 10, Related Wonders for You to Explore The reed plates can be cleaned the same way, minus the toothbrush. For more information: riccardos. There are a lot of plugs for you to pay to become a member, but it has some useful info. He does a good job of noting some common mistakes that people make. It's really important to listen to good harmonica players so you know what to aim for and to help you develop a good sound.
Question 6 months ago on Step 5. Question 1 year ago on Step 3. I'm a little confused after reading about the notes on a "C" harmonica.
Can you please clarify what the oddities are in holes 2, 7, and 10? I've tried to comprehend the differences, but cannot understand what these may be. Thank you! Answer 1 year ago. They break the pattern of moving smoothly up a major scale with alternating inhales and exhales blows and draws.
Sometimes the pattern of blows and draws changes, sometimes notes in the scale are skipped or repeated. Maybe the attached graphic will make it clearer. If you try to connect those notes in order in the graphic on step 3, you'll find they mostly follow a zigzag pattern, with some exceptions. See if you can follow the major scale up the harmonica and note the pattern of blows and draws. On holes 2, F is skipped. Between 2 and 3, G is repeated.
On 3, A is skipped. On hole 7, the order of blow and draw switches, and it stays that way for the next octave. On hole 10, B is skipped.
Hope that helps. Reply 1 year ago. Thank you for responding with this explanation. I do now understand as your graphic really helps to clarify the major scale. Although on 3, isn't it A that is skipped vs G as you wrote above? I was wondering if you read my additional question that I had in response to your explanation. I wasn't sure if I posted it correctly. It's nothing fancy, but nevertheless it's the intelectual property of www.
Hi Richard, I'm so sorry about that. I made this instructable 10 years ago, when I was in high school, and admittedly didn't give much thought to intellectual property or citations. I removed the image and added a link to your website instead. I'm not active on instructables these days; I'm sorry I didn't see your comment sooner.
To be honest I was surprised to see people still visiting this page. All the best. Question 1 year ago on Step 1. Question 1 year ago. I'm a beginner at harmonicaplaying and I'm wondering if the right technique is to breathe in and out of the nose as well when i'm playing. This feels more relaxing to my throught but a lot of air is beeing wasted and it is hard to control the playing. What should i do? I have a c harmonica but it has no numbers IDK if what I have is a harmonica, but I think it is.
It has 16 little holes, and 4 big ones. It's not from any of the bigger companies, so it doesn't have a key writen on it So yeah, please help me.. Reply 5 years ago. Plus, there are holea that you can ony inhale or exhale trough I can exhale trough it and I hear a note, but when i inhale nothing happens. Introduction: How to Play the Harmonica. By jessejwk Follow. More by the author:.
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