RaJazz Blues Harp Academy

RajazzBlues.Com Classes on Google Meet, 4 Class es Per Week,  Duration - 45 mins +  Practice Materials.   Email: RajazzBlues@gmail.com  Mobile: 09880243305 Level 1 - Beginner Skills - Hold the harmonica properly - Clean single notes without bleed from adjacent holes - Clean chords that don’t sound strained - Can play a clean 2 hole draw - Played over a 12 bar blues (you don’t necessarily understand it yet) - Play single notes in time with a beat on the metronome - Can play at least one simple melody - Can play the C major scale between holes 4 and 7 - Know the difference between ‘Straight’ and ‘Shuffle’ rhythms - Know how to warble - Experimented with bending the 4 draw, 3 draw and 2 draw - Know how to play glissandos - Simple Comping Level 2 - Advanced Beginner Skills - Play a strong clean 2 hole draw - Knowledge of 12 bar blues structure and how to play over one - Comfortable with 1/4 note, 1/8 note and triplet rhythms - Articulate notes - Bend a 4 draw from the cl...

Level: Beginner Week 1 • 4 week foundation level • how to hold the harmonica • how to breathe • train rhythm • simple blues chugging • single notes and simple melodies • 12 bar blues structure knowledge • basic improvisation Week 2 • How to play a clean 2 draw • What is articulation • What is the structure of a 12 Bar Blues and how does it relate to a harmonica • Learn a simple 12 Bar Blues tune Week 3 • Articulating 1/8th notes • Reading Simple Sheet Music • Understanding Turnarounds • Increasing Melodic Repertoire Week 4 • C Major Scale with 1/8th Notes • Using a Metronome • Understanding the Start of a Piece of Music • How to Practice Efficiently • Understanding the End of a 12 Bar Blues Week 5 • More Work With Metronome • Learning to Play in Different Scenarios • Chugging with Shuffle Rhythm • Mixing Chugging and Single Notes Week 6 • Learning to Relax • Get comfortable with higher notes • Building up speed • Understanding practice and improvement Week 7 • Count through a Slow Blue...

  Along with its cousins, the accordion and the concertina, the harmonica got its start around 1820 in the German-speaking parts of Europe. Right from the beginning, harmonicas were called   mouth harps   (or   mundharfe   in German). No one knows for certain who invented the harmonica. Early harmonica history in the United States At first, harmonicas were made by hand by part-time workers in semirural areas of Germany. The Hohner company, which later grew to dominate the world harmonica market, made only 650 instruments in 1857, its first year of production. By the mid-1870s, mechanization allowed Hohner alone to produce more than 50,000 instruments yearly. By 1900, Hohner was pumping out more than 3 million harmonicas a year, with most going to the United States. Meanwhile, mail-order catalogs helped distribute harmonicas to even the loneliest outposts. By the mid-1880s, Midwestern music publishers were producing harmonica instruction books, attesting to the h...

  The harmonica is a free reed instrument; this means that sound is generated as air flows past a thin strip of material and makes it vibrate producing sound. Air pressure is usually generated by breathing or blowing into a hole, cane or pipe. The air flows over one side of the reed, creating an area of low pressure and causing the reed to flex towards the opposite side. The frame enclosing the reed is built so that when it flexes it blocks the air flow, reducing the low pressure area and allowing the reed to bend back. The harmonica is known to have different names like the Gob Iron, the Tin Sandwich, the Mouth Organ but most commonly the harp, probably because of its mechanism being so similar to the Jew’s harp, which consists of a single reed mounted on a frame that is plucked to create a note that resonates in the player’s mouth. The first free reed instruments were invented in the Ancient Far East and were not known in the West until quite recently. Among these ancient instrum...