Hello and welcome to this week’s harmonica lesson, where I will be showing you how to play Somewhere Over The Rainbow. This is a cover of Roly platt’s version of the song, which you can hear further down the page. There’s lots going on in this tune, so this lesson is going to be in two parts. You’ll get the second part next week.
You will need a harmonica in the key of C and we will be playing in 2nd position in the key of G.
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Somewhere over the Rainbow Licks
Backing Track
Here is a backing track for you to practice playing along to.
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Roly Platt’s Version
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.
Happy harping and see you next Wednesday for the second part of this lesson!
Beautiful. I see Mr Platt holds his harp at quite a diagonal angle?? Is he playing a chromatic harp? …it looks longer than a blues harp. Thanks for your website.
regards
Liell
Hi Lliel, glad you like it :-). Roly is using a diatonic harmonica for this but I think it might have an alternative tuning. Cheers, T