Hello and welcome to this week’s harmonica lesson where I will be showing you how to play Boogie Chillen by John Lee Hooker. This is actually a version played by Hakan Ehn which you can listen to further down the page.
You will need a harmonica in the key of D and we will be playing in 2nd position in the key of A major.
Click here to get the tab for Boogie Chillen
Boogie Chillen Licks
Practice playing each lick slowly along to the audio clips below. You will quite possibly need to spend quite a lot of quality time breaking the licks down and playing them painfully slow. I would play them around 60bpm until they sound smooth then gradually speed up to full speed.
Backing track
Here is the backing track for you to use as a reference.
Click here to get the tab for Boogie Chillen
Hakan Ehn’s Version
Here is Hakan Ehn playing this tune – it is insanely fast and sounds awesome!
Thank you
If you have any questions just send me a wee email.
Happy harping!
