Today we are going to be looking at some groovy background rhythm harmonica to help fill a band’s sound out. You will need a harmonica in the key of C played in 2nd position.
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Enunciate
This is a very rhythmic 12 bar tune so you really want to make it pop by enunciating the first 2 notes of the phrase using your tongue.
Chugging
I am alternating between single notes and rhythmic chugging to try and replicate a bass player grooving with a drummer. After all, harmonica players are expected to hold everything down!
Call and response
Finally, although I am using a lot of repetition I am also doing some call and response phrases to stop it from getting boring for the listener. However, none of them are particularly flash. We’re not taking a solo, we are just adding some background filler on the harmonica. Don’t try and take centre stage just yet!
Audio clips of every 2 bars played slowly
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Thank You
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Great tune and I really like the video editing that shows the bar or bars being played in a highlighted manner. Very clear and easy to see what’s going on. Thank you for doing this.
Thanks Larry! Glad you like it. 🙂
That´s fun! .. but Tomlin, I missed some tabs via mail, if I tip on the Button ´get the tab here´, no email-attachment. Thanks to fix the problem. Best regards.
Thanks a lot for this lesson, Tomlin. Unfortunatelly I have the same problem with getting a tab on my e-mail. Tried several times, didn’t receive anything. Could you fix it, please?
I’m sorry to hear that. Here is a direct link to the tab.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b3e301xmmcgvygx/Street%20Groove.pdf?dl=0
Hi Tobias, apologies for it not working, you can download directly here – https://www.dropbox.com/s/b3e301xmmcgvygx/Street%20Groove.pdf?dl=0
Thank you!
Hi Tomlin…I am trying to get the tab for HARMONICA BLUES GROOVY RHYTHM from yr “get the tab” link but it does not seem to work…Thanks for yr outstanding harp tutorials..the best there are on line. Super professional
Hi Diego, I’m sorry to hear that – I’ll email the tab now 🙂
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