Beginner’s Workshop Features

4 Hour Workshop – Clear instruction and loads of Fun!

100 slide PowerPoint Presentation on a Big Screen and Sound System

22 Play - a - long  Exercises – Everyone has a go!

All students receive Detailed Notes and CD of all exercises covered to practise at home

Amplified Harp Demos by Brad

Cost: $100 / Person

Concessions & Group Discounts available

 No Previous Music Experience is necessary

Open to all ages 10  to 110!

 Beginner’s Workshop Content

A Brief History of the Harmonica

Types of Harmonicas - Chromatic, Diatonic and Tremelo-tuned

Parts of the 'Harp'

Holding the Harmonica

Note Layout and Chords on a 'C' harp

Breath Control

Simple Harmonica Tablature

Train Rhythms

Articulations – Making it ‘Talk’

Playing Single Notes - 2 ways

Tremelo (Wah Wah) effect

The Major Scale

Simple Melodies

Rhythm and the Beat

Playing to the Basic Beat

Principle of ‘Harmonica Relativity’

Straight Harp and Cross Harp

How to Bend Notes

The 12 Bar Blues

The Blues Scale

The “Swing” Rhythm

Blues Riffs

Boogie Woogie Blues

Amplified 'Chicago Style' Blues Harp Playing

Recommended Artists

Recommended Self-instruction Book/CD’s