Chords for World's Easiest Harmonica Lesson #1

_ _ Hi everybody, this is Dan Jones with Blues 57 Band.
I hope you're doing fabulous
I'm feeling great and looking forward to teaching you the very [E] basics of how to play the harmonica
Now a lot of people laugh when I tell them that you can play the [Fm] harmonica in five minutes or less
Because we have a lot [Eb] of friends and fans who want to know how to play
[B] _ But you [Cm] can learn and [Fm] if you couldn't I wouldn't be here and [N] I got faith in you
You're gonna pick it up and you're gonna do great
_ You can be of any size shape
_ It doesn't make any difference.
What kind of harmonica you play
None of that really makes a big difference until you get a little more technical a little more _ _
_ Time under your belt practicing and rehearsing it
_ But for right now
We're just going to go with the simplest way to get started and that's all it really matters and speaking to get it started
The harmonica started in about _ 1821
_ fellow by the name of Christian Friedrich Ludwig
Bushman a lot of names _
is created a credit as the inventor of the harmonica it became popular in 1857 in the United States and
As a matter of fact Abraham Lincoln always had one in his pocket
_ Wyatt Earp used [F] to play it as well as Billy the Kid and the list goes on and on
the great thing about this thing is _ _
It is [N] so mobile you can like say stick it in your pocket carry anywhere that soldiers used to carry it in wars and things
Of that nature.
It's a great great
_ _ instrument for that and also for _ individuality and it's all based on
_ embouchure embouchure is what you create the chamber in your mouth and your throat and
All that all everything that's in there actually makes a chamber that is going to give you your individual sound
You're not going to sound just like your favorite harmonica player.
You're gonna sound like you and that's exactly what we want
Okay, nothing better than that _ _
First we're going to start out
_ _ By just doing a very basic and I'm going to start on this will be my left side your right side of the harmonica
This is a C harmonica is a Lee Oscar harmonica.
It's a great little harmonica
I play all kinds and so do most other harmonica players.
I know like I said, it doesn't really matter
He autographed this for me.
He engraved it great.
Very very nice, man
The bottom line here is we're gonna start over here.
I'm just gonna my mouth is gonna be over three or four holes
It doesn't really matter.
I just want you to get the technique down of what we're trying to do
We're gonna try to emulate the very basics of a train
Okay, we're gonna go out and out in now when I blow out it's blowing and when I draw in [Ebm] or suck in
It's called [Fm] drawing excuse me, and when you [Bb] blow and draw and blow and draw
I'll try to keep my [C] hand in time with what I'm doing
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can try it piece of cake right out and out and you do it every [C] day millions of times
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[Fm] We're gonna have to build up that sound with that
[D] Excuse me that tempo so that sound is more emulating [C] the train that we want to get after
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now
You can practice that until you feel comfortable with it or you can keep moving right along
The bottom line is is don't get discouraged with this instrument.
It's it's going to reward you in a lot of different ways
If nothing else, it's a great great way to relieve stress tension and it makes you feel good about yourself
Whatever just like any instrument would it's a wonderful thing
Don't get discouraged with it and find a place where [B] you can practice
[Ab] Don't drive everybody around you [B] nuts playing playing it all the time.
Just breathing [N] out and in my best and favorite place
It's play is actually in my truck.
It's a great sound chamber
I can hear everything every sound every noise every pitch that I'm making I can hear it
Very very well in my truck
So find a place like that practice all you want and it doesn't matter if you make mistakes or not
There's [C] nobody's there gonna be there to hear you
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[C] We're gonna build up speed
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] Now when you do that, you have to remember you're pushing you need to be pushing with what's your diaphragm like your stomach? _ _
Okay, the bottom line is is you [N] don't have to use all the wind in the world
That's in your lungs and pushing out and breathing in the whole time
It's [Db] this is not [Ab] necessary
Think [N] about it as if you go into a fast-food place and you're sucking on something that's hard to get up into the straw
Let's say a thick shake.
Okay, you [Abm] are creating a vacuum and
[Ab] And also if you were pushing out it would be the same way
[G] But not to that extent right now, but [N] just think of it like that
You realize you don't use all of your lungs when you're sucking on that straw
You're just using that little bit and what's moving the air is your tongue
Your tongue is moving the air more than that and your diaphragm, that's it
You don't need to be you're gonna use your lungs, of course
But they don't need to be what's drawing in the technique is to try to use your tongue
If you can't if you can't right now, we don't care.
Okay [Gb] now you can hold this any way you want again
This is a C harmonica.
You can have any key you want.
Let's get started again.
Let's go back [C] into it
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_ _ Now I'm gonna [B] do the train whistle
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[G] _ Okay.
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All I did was say wow wow wow
While I was sucking or drawing in wow, wow
[N] Wow, now obviously didn't take my lips off the harmonica because then you would lose the air.
Okay
_ You you're going to have to keep your lips there and say it without moving your lips.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow
Okay, well, wow.
Wow do the best you can [G] with that _ _
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_ [N] can add some other techniques to that later
But play this video over and over again until you get that down and you will get it down and once you've done that
Fabulous, maybe you have it down now.
That's even better.
But here's the thing again.
Don't get discouraged with it
We'll get further into [D] things much more techniques as far as holding it and and all the kind of [N] things that you want to know
Just email me at BLU easy
5-7 and a TT net if you want to learn _ further or what you want to see in the next video
But until then keep practicing do the best you can do.
That's all you can do and God bless.
Thank you _