learn to play the harmonica

I like the harmonica which is gift from a friend of mine. And I am following a very good set of online harmonica lessons from www.harmonicaacademy.com

my father bought me one for my birthday. i think it’s one of the best instrument with cute voice. whenever i hear a harmonica voice, i become happier inside. for me it’s like antidepressants, makes me feel cheerful and makes the song more tasteful. i am still trying to learn it by myself.
btw: the guy who plays the guitar and harmonica at the same time..
find me somehow! (:

I think I’ll ask my husband if he’ll buy me a harmonica and instruction CD for Christmas. That’s a nice gift. Any suggestions on a good one?

But am I ever going to learn? Probably not, so I’m taking this goal off my list to make room for something else that makes more practical sense for me to be doing.

For awhile I’ve been stuck in a rut. I can single note play well. I can bend decently and even over-blow a touch but I sort of ran out of inspiration and my learning curve fell way flat. Besides just messing about playing by ear, playing with songs, and playing a couple blues riffs over and over and over I haven’t made much improvement to my playing in the past four or five months.

Tonight I just found a great podcast which is at a great level for me:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=125247985

I’ll let you know how it is going in a couple weeks or so.

I got myself a Hohner CX12 Chromatic some time ago.

It wasn’t till a few days ago that I found this reference site [1] and somehow started to hobble along irregularly.

It will be more than a year before I can play without thinking.

[1] http://www.angelfire.com/music/HarpOn/

two gallants songs

I used to have one, for some reason. It was nice, too, and I pretended I could play it when I was younger. Actually, I probably thought that I really could play it. I don’t know what happened to it, but it was dented and rusting, anyway. I think this goal will follow the same path as the accordion one. Sometime in the relatively near future…

I added this 2 months ago and then…nothing. Just goes to show you how well I commit to things.

Anyhow. I pulled out my harmonica and I played along with the instruction CD; it was just for 20 minutes and it’s not very hard, but I can see it getting more challenging towards the end. I will try and keep this up, practicing once every two days, and see how long it takes me to get through the teaching booklet – and see if I want to continue with this goal or not. So far: mildly fun.

It’s perfect. I’m not very musical, but I’d really like to be, and the harmonica is perfect. It’s small and portable. It’s cheap, which is especially good cause if I decide to get lazy and give up, I won’t have spent a bajillion dollars on a digital accordion. There are no strings—they hurt my fingers. There is no reed—they taste disgusting. And not that many people play the harmonica, so I won’t be constantly feeling disheartened because I’m not as good as so-and-so. Good.