Hello and welcome to this week’s lesson, where I will be showing you how to play a fun boogie blues style harmonica tune, inspired by Big Walter Horton’s “Walter’s Boogie”.
You will need a harmonica in the key of A, and we will be playing in 2nd position in the key of E.
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Boogie Style Audio Clips
Here are some recordings of me playing each lick for you to hear what they should sound like.
Lick 1
Lick 2
Lick 3
Lick 4
Turnaround
Don’t rush
If you are not able to move down from the 6 hole to the 2 draw quickly enough just slow down the whole thing rather than playing the lick quickly and then slowing down during the transition.
Use for solo harmonica
Once you are comfortable playing the full tune, you can use it as the basis for your own solo harmonica improvisation.
It works really well if you play two bars of the boogie and then two bars of improv. Alternate between bass line and improv all the way through the 12 bars.
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Thank you
Thank you so much for taking part in this lesson. I hope it was useful for you. If you enjoyed it please feel free to share it with your friends on Facebook and/or Twitter.
If you have any questions just send me a wee email.
See you next Wednesday for the next harmonica lesson!
Love you way of instruction, Tomlin. Clear and understandable.
I’m 61 years old now and picked up harmonica playing again in january 2015, after almost 44 years, thanks to my little grand daughter.
Collecting and playing harmonica is “my life”.
I still do have a very busy live, but I try to follow your lessons as much as possible.
Followed a harmonica course in my hometown to get to know the basics again. Now I would like to try to get “a bit better” 🙂
Thank you Tomlin.
Thanks Chrit 🙂
Still not sure what harmonic to buy
What kind of harmonica do you currently have? I would try a different brand and different key 🙂
Hi Tomlin
This one sounded good. so I am on to it
But I can’t make it into 12 bars…… please remind me how many times each lick is played.
Keep up the good work
Cheers Giles
Hi Giles, Lick 1 will be played 4 times, Lick 2 twice, Lick 1 twice, Lick 3, Lick 4, Turnaround 🙂