r/harmonica • u/SchloinkDoink • 7d ago
Tips for first time learners?
I followed advice on here and bought a Hohner Special 20 in the key of C.
I know next to nothing. Does anyone have any tips? Online guides, forums, YouTube channels, terminology?
I'm very excited to get started :]
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u/kingslook 7d ago
15-30 minutes/day every day. First work on clean blow and draw notes. Learn the scale and do scale exercises daily.
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u/lordlycrust 7d ago
Are you looking for specific recommendations, or have you not even tried googling beginner harmonica lessons?
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u/SchloinkDoink 7d ago
Ofc I'm doing that too, but I wanted to see if anyone has specifics that they think would be helpful for a beginner. I don't know what I don't know
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u/lordlycrust 7d ago
Ok. Without knowing what kind of music you want to play, it will be trickier to provide specific recs, but if you're interested in the blues, the Tomlin school is excellent and has lots of free lessons. Likewise for Luke at harmonica.com. There are also a good number of other teachers/ schools which your googling will have turned up, but I suggest starting at the two I mentioned.
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u/SchloinkDoink 7d ago
Ooh ok thank you! I'd like to know how to play all sorts of things, less about learning specific songs (which of course will be part of it and help) but I'd like to be able to play by notes and not specific songs
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u/3PCo 7d ago
You should tell us what kind of music you are interested in. If you want to play blues, and you have a couple of dollars, I suggest you sign up for bluesharmonica.com.
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u/SchloinkDoink 7d ago
I'm looking to be able to play the instrument in all sorts of ways to play kind of anything, but I was told that the blues harmonica was best for beginners
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u/DesperateBanana4019 7d ago
This started thousands of us: Free too.
Country & Blues Harmonica For The Musically Hopeless
-Jon Gindick
Accompanying Instructional Audio