Rollin’ and Tumblin’ Blues on C Harmonica Lesson

Jun 22, 2016 | Intermediate Harmonica Lessons

Hello and welcome to this week’s harmonica lesson where I will be showing you how to play the old blues standard – Rollin’ and Tumblin’.

For this lesson you will need a harmonica in the key of C and we will be playing in 2nd position (key of G)




Tongue-blocked octaves

If you are having trouble playing tongue-blocked then I recommend you check out my lesson on how to play them –
How to play tongue-blocked octave

Rollin’ and Tumblin’ Licks

Click below to listen to each lick by itself slowly –

Put it all together

Rollin’ and Tumblin’ has a slightly weird structure and I have heard many different versions which are slightly different. I have based my version on the Eric Clapton unplugged version which you can listen to here –

Learn each chunk by itself and then practice putting them together.

Thank you

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See you again for the next harmonica video!

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