This book concentrates on teh C harmonica for learning purposes. The book illustrates numbers and arrows that can be used with any key harmonica.

Specific contents of Blues Harp

CHAPTER I

  • Introduction
  • Playing Instructions
  • Blues Harmonica: Cross Harp
  • Blues for Chromatic Harmonica
  • 12 Bar Blues
  • More Tones for Blues
  • G Blues
  • G Blues in Quarters

CHAPTER II

  • G Chord
  • Chord and Note
  • Tonic Blues (no chromatic)
  • C Chord
  • C Chord Blues in G
  • D Seventh Chord
  • D Seventh Chord with A Natural
  • All Chords
  • Broken Blues
  • Walking Boogie

CHAPTER III

  • Bending Notes
  • Enharmonic Tones
  • G Bend
  • B Bend
  • D Bend
  • Chromatic Bending
  • Chromatic Scale (diatonic)
  • Chromatic Scale (chromatic)

CHAPTER IV

  • One Note Blues
  • Down Under Blues
  • Tri-Blues
  • Draw Boogie Blues
  • Blues Scale
  • Blues Scale Tone in G
  • Steppin' Out Blues
  • Long Note Blues
  • Backup Blues
  • Fills

CHAPTER V

  • Eighth Notes
  • Eighth Note Blues
  • Improvising
  • Simple Swing
  • Swinging Blues
  • Triplet
  • Triplet Blues

CHAPTER VI

  • Country Licks
  • Patterns
  • Endings
  • 10 Bar Country Tune
  • Country Blues in 16 Bars
  • 16 Bar Chorus
  • 24 Bar Chorus

CHAPTER VII

  • Harmonica Shuffle
  • Shuffle Blues
  • Shuffle On

CHAPTER VIII

  • Red River Valley
  • Amazing Grace (fill)
  • Amazing Grace (solo)
  • Standing in the Need of Prayer (fill)
  • Standing in the Need of Prayer (solo)
  • Wildwood Flower (fill)
  • Wildwood Flower (solo)
  • The Wabach Cannonball (fill)
  • The Wabach Cannonball (solo)
  • Goin' to Catch a Trin to Memphis
  • C. C. Rider
  • When the Saints Go Marching In (fill)
  • When the Saints Go Marching In (solo)
  • Gotta Travel On (fill)
  • Gotta Travel On (solo)
  • Old Joe Clark (fill)
  • Old Joe Clark (solo)
  • Goin' Down that Road Feelin' Bad (fill)
  • Goin' Down that Road Feelin' Bad (solo)
  • East Virginia (fill)
  • East Virginia (solo)
  • Lonesome Valley (fill)
  • Lonesome Valley (solo)
  • Deep River
  • Shenandoah

CHAPTER IX - TECHNICAL EFFECTS

  • Double Stops
  • Vibrato
  • Tongue Flutter
  • Glissando
  • Tremolo
  • Train Whistle
  • Amplified Harmonica
  • Trill
  • Listening