Straight and Blues Harmonica Improvisation for Beginners
- Lifetime access
- Beginner
- 20 video lessons
- 8 students
About this course
Our 20 part video course, Straight and Blues Harmonica Improvisation for Beginners is designed to take you from complete harmonica beginner to being able to play your favourite songs from harp tabs and improvise along with pop, rock and blues music! Guided by our harmonica teacher Lee, you'll learn everything you need to know to master this easy and highly rewarding instrument.
This course needs a C harmonica. We recommend the Hohner Blues Harp which can be purchased by clicking here.
Lessons
- 1 1: Introduction, singles and doubles
- 2 2: C Major Scale
- 3 3: Introducing scale degrees
- 4 4: Chords I, IV and V
- 5 5: C major scale, top octave
- 6 6: C major scale improvisation introduction
- 7 7: Your first song (Lean on Me)
- 8 8: Your second song (Heart of Gold)
- 9 9: How to bend
- 10 10: Heart of Gold with bends
- 11 11: Harp tabs
- 12 12: Introduction to cross harp
- 13 13: The Blues Scale
- 14 14: The flattened fifth
- 15 15: Blues shuffle phrase introduction
- 16 16: Blues shuffle phrase – full arrangement and improvisation
- 17 17: Blues funk phrase
- 18 18: Positions and minor keys
- 19 19: Dorian caveat and bonus song (The River)
- 20 20: Conclusion
About your teacher
LeeHarmonica, Singing, Guitar
I’m Lee McKenzie, I tutor guitar, harmonica, singing and song-writing whilst advocating a broader musicianship approach for learning how to express, create, jam & improvise. I also provide tuition on the principles of application for theory/harmony. I believe…