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If you are playing nice clean single notes consistently with ease, you may be ready to start learning how to bend. If you know how to bend, follow me to level 3 and let’s see how to add even more expressiveness to this song. In this level, we are going to add some hand wah to shape the tone of the notes. In order to do this, you will have to understand what we call “The Closed Cup Grip.” Here’s a great lesson on How to Hold a Harmonica. John Denver originally recorded it in the key of A, and we are going to learn it on the harmonica in 1st position, which just means that you’d need an A harmonica to play along with the recording. But for this lesson we’re going to do it on a C harmonica, since that’s the key that most people start with.
Take your playing to the next level with the help of a local or online banjo teacher. The first note is 4, and the easiest way to find hole 4 is to start on 1 and count as you slide over.
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To play this level you’ll a harmonica in the key of C and you’ll also need to be able to do Play Single Notes. And then we get to “West Virginia” and “Mountain Mama” it’s 3 short notes followed by one long note. LEVEL 2 We’re going to add in some hand wah to shape the tone. It’s amazing how much life this technique breathes into the song.
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