Harmonica Beginner's Lesson no.1

       

Hello and welcome people, if you recently purchased a harmonica and are about to start the journey of playing harmonica, you are at right spot! Here you will get a beginner’s guide to harmonica or mouth organ in precise and complete manner.

Introduction:

The Harmonica, also known as French harp or mouth organ is a most charming musical instrument among the musicians. The instrument is famous for its romantic and pleasant tune. A beginner should note that learning a harmonica involves good control on breath and thorough practice will surely lead you to perfection. There are different types of harmonica's in the market upon which most common ones are Diatonic, Chromatic and Tremolo.

 

Starting with the we will see how to play the Basic seven notes of music world.

i.e. Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni   -Indian Notation

      C, D, E, F, G, A, B                  -Western Notation

 

 ·       Diatonic-

Diatonic harmonica is generally a 10 hole mouth organ. It is comparatively small in size and quite handy. It is designed to play in single key.

 

Diatonic Harmonica

 

 Notation Layout

 

Generally most of the songs in Indian music are played in middle octave. One can practice playing the seven basic notes in music.

 

·       Chromatic-

The Chromatic harmonica is a type of harmonica that has a slider on its right side. When slider is pressed the airflow is diverted to desired reed and svar is altered to komal and tivra svara's.

 Chromatic harmonica

 

   Notation Layout

 

Most of the beginners purchase this mouth organ as it is very easy to play any song on this harmonica. It is because of its design that each and every svar, is present on this harmonica and one can play wide range of song without using advance techniques like bending, puckering, etc.

 

·       Tremolo-

     The Tremolo harmonica is a type of harmonica, which has two reeds per note. Tremolo harmonica distinguishes itself from chromatic one by the fact that it does not have slider. So to play some songs with komal and tivra svars one should be having advanced mouth organ skills like bending of notes,etc.

      

Tremolo harmonica

             

   Notation Layout

 

          Now practice playing these notes on harmonica and I promise you guys you will able to play any song. 

    

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