BONUS: Learn to play The Beatles, Love Me Do
Lesson time: (1min 59sec)
A bonus lesson that puts your blues scale to work: learn to play The Beatles' 'Love Me Do' on the C diatonic harmonica.
Free lesson
This lesson is part of the course Play the Blues on a C Harmonica in 8 lessons
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Lesson transcript:
Introduction to Blues Harmonica
Hi, my name is Matt Walklaid, and I've just finished recording a course for music gurus about blues harmonica.
Course Overview
The aim of this course is to get you started on playing simple blues harmonica.
Learning the Blues Scale
By learning to use the blues scale, you can play:
- Blues music
- Other popular songs
For instance, you might recognize tunes like:
- "Love Me Do" by The Beatles
Why Learn the Blues?
There aren't many tunes in the blues genre, but it's a style that people will recognize and say, "I know that one!"
When you learn to play it in a basic way, you can:
- Put your own spin on it
- Add in more techniques as you learn them
About the instructor
Mat Walklate is a Manchester-based harmonica player and teacher working in blues and folk, who also plays flute, whistle and uilleann pipes and sings. He won the British Blues Harmonica Championship in 1992 and the All-Britain Fleadh Cheoil on harmonica in 1993, and is a Seydel-endorsed artist.Over a thirty-year career he has toured Europe with bands including The Moochers and the Irish-music group The House Devils, recorded and mixed some fourteen albums between 2001 and 2021 - among them Sea of Blues and Traditional Harmonica - and now performs in a duo with singer-guitarist Alex Haynes and alongside blues scholar Dr Tom Attah. He teaches harmonica at Leeds Conservatoire and privately.On MusicGurus his courses take you from your first notes on a C harmonica - embouchure, the cross-harp position, bending and your first improvisation - through to fluent blues playing, with vibrato, alternative positions and the phrasing that makes a solo sing. read more