harmonca?

I have an old bluesband harmonica i think it was my great grandfathers but evertiime ii see it laying around it makes me wanna learn. I think it would be awesome to take an instrument wiith me everyywhere i go.

Is there anyone here that plays?

What would be the best way to get started?

 

idk man im always wanted to learn too.

ish like this is sick as hell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHUuqsSCn5g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cKqq_lcCwo

even this made me wana learn the flute hahahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2hzA5RNwg&feature=related

 

Yeah dude i think its so badass! Just like bust iit out on your friiends! Bam! I wreck harmoniica!

 

i bought a hohner a couple years ago with the intention to learn. played around on it a bit and learned a couple things. but as usual for me i quickly got bored and moved onto something else.

 

haha great now you got me started now im stuck on youtube lookin this ish up

 

I dont know i think iit would be so badass!

 

It would be. but in order to get amazing it will take several years. its hard.

 

Well that comes with any iinstument. I self taught myself drums and i got pretty darn good. I think i could do it. Everyone sayys its really easy too.

 

hell ya its hard its just like any thing it takes practice and alot of it!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE90DrK4GZw?fs=1

 

john popper (from the blues traveller) is the best by far. I hear when he touches a harmonica, he feeds a kid in Ethiopia

 

thats it im learning

 

i bet that was an awesome concert! Im a huge BT fan.

 

I play a little harmonica. I would recomend you take that old harmonica and clean it real good to get out any gunk in the reeds(that's the part that makes the tunes). Obviously, since it's a little old it might not play as good as a new-broken in one. all harmonicas have expirations on them, no date printed, but you'll know it, cause it will start to sound like crap. They especially get worn out when you play the blues or bend the notes. Bending notes is key to playing the blues. It's a little more than just technicalities of playing. It's actually feeling the music man. My advice is to pick up a book or tab book for harmonicas at your local music store and learn the history of the harmonica and the different genres of music you can play with it. This way you can decide what to concentrate on. learn the rudementary scale and play simple songs. It does get frustrating, but keep at it. Key of C harmonica is the most common and you'll soon get other keys as you progress. All with due time. I'm no professional or even semi-pro or even amatuer, but I enjoy playing the harmonica and have read a lot and practiced a lot. I think I do pretty well, for self taught, but it is one of those instruments that takes years to play it good and probably a decade to master. Oh, watch youtube videos on "How to's" they really help a lot. Look out for these Guys, Adam Gussow from Satan & Adam, Ronnie Shellist. really good harmonica players that give real good harmonica how to advice.

 

thanks man!!

 

I would love to learn it. I always have this image of playing a harmonica around a camp fire.

 

That's actually the best time, when everyone just quiets down and watches the flames jump around, you just pull out that harmonica without them seeing you and throw your head down and face the ground and push that harmonica to your lips and whale out a nice soft bluesy tune and everyone is like "what the hell". awesome feeling.

 

I want that! I'll be hunting/camping in a couple weeks and now it will just be us sitting around the fire in silence with no "what the hell" awesome feeling moment

 

get you one anyways. Before I knew how to play a little and had a legit harmonica, my dad bought me one and I would take that thing out at the right moment and whale on it. Didn't play a damn tune, but it got everyone is worked up. Eventually I learned to play. You'll be suprised what you can do with a marine band hohner harmonica and the little instructions it comes with to play a lick. Get it. You'll have fun with it on your down time while your out hunting. Oh, and they are good for blues, not so much for calls.