![]() ![]() ![]() What Harmonica Should I Buy as a Beginner? This approach to learning a song can be used with any instrument, the aural side of music never changes from instrument to instrument. Strengthening the memory link between listening and playing. Then hum or sing the song to keep it fresh in your mind. Listen to the song, find out what key it is in and what techniques are involved to learn it. Listening is also important when approaching how to learn new songs as a beginner. It’s just like speaking, if you don’t practice speaking then you won’t improve at it no matter how much you study the theory. Playing, expressing and communicating is vital, if you don’t do this then you won’t develop as a musician. Listen to what you are playing and who you are playing with going by sound rather than thought. Shut off your thinking and analysis of every technique you have been learning and just play. The other 50% of learning is to actually play. Base your course of study around these goals, ask yourself “ where do I want to get to?” and “ how am I going to get there?” This studious habit, however important, is only 50% of what is required when learning. Start with a long term goal, which you can break down into shorter term goals and finally break these down into tasks to achieve those goals. When learning an instrument it’s important to set goals for yourself. In each of these keys you have to play certain notes (whilst avoiding others) to make sure that none of the notes clash with each other, especially when playing with other musicians. The dominant key (or the 1st position) of this harmonica is C, G is second, Dm is third and Am is fourth. Through these you can find all the notes that you need to play in 4 different keys on the one harmonica.Īs an example, let’s take the harmonica tuned to C. You have 2 sets of notes on the harmonica which relate to each other, called the tonic and dominant notes. In this episode of Music Space Peter brought in his 10 hole diatonic harmonica in the key of C. ![]() The HarmonicaĮach harmonica is tuned to a different key, with a certain number of notes available to it. He talked about his love for the harmonica, and different sounds of harmonicas – along with some great practicing tips! Let’s recap on the episode topics now. Hi Guys, welcome to our Music Space blog post for the week! Today we had Peter Gelling in the studio, one of our very own writers and an incredibly multi-talented musician. ![]()
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