The Blues Scale for Harmonica 

I'm a member of your harmonica web site, but this helped me understand the blues scale instantly. Awesome. I'm a blues guitarist so this instantly made sense to me. Been trying to correlate the two for weeks until I found this AWESOME. So jazzed!

ありがとう！Yes. i grab my C harmonica!!

Many many thanks for this straightforward lesson. For the first time I am able to produce the Blue sound!

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i have diatonic E Harmonica .its ok for playing this

Wow (-: (y) thank you so much for a great lesson !!!

thank you so much for this awesome lesson

The basics nice one JP. Will be chasing your tutorials now

Accidentally bought a tremolo harp (honer echo), that was the only one avaliable in my local store. I love it, but now i want your Honer Special 20. Hope I can learn to bend as well. Thanks for your work, I love all you did for us. Ed from Italy.

How do you do that Shuffle so fast?Is this just practice , Practice. practice.Thank You Tony.

Allen how you do the bending ..? Thanks

A lot of blues scale videos start going up the scale, JP has got a point starting backwards, I found starting out it was easier to start going down the scale then up.

It is a bit fast 4 a utube lesson, but the basics r here, thx,

would do a lesson on the song "Broken Window Serenade by Whiskey Myers, Cody Cannon plays a harmonica and guitar".

Do you have a video teaching how to do the bend on notes?

Great lesson JP - what make and model harmonica are you using? It sounds great!

dang j p I didn't know u were married I thought u had a harem out there aloha

JP have you got a video which shows how to remove the scabs from my lip blisters from the harmonica holes?

Great lesson, thank you! What harmonica are you using?

shit that beginning is so annoying to be honest

I love my harmonica clarinet music. Thanks for all the lessons & guidance. Keep it up guys!

I don't know why I can't play like you do in every video with my Harmonica, Maybe because it's A not C ?

Not sure why but I could not hear your video

Thanks

What about the breathing? i can't draw this much without being breathless D:

Just awesome... Thanks a lot.

what is the best way to get that singled out the note ? meaning if I go to blow a 6, the notes around it play also. (5 and 7)

Instead of -2 draw, can I just do a 3 blow? it's pretty much the same key on the c harmonica

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Can you give us the entrance riff? Please

Brilliant well explained.

hey just a question - are you supposed to tongue each note? or just slur the whole scale? Do you tongue even when you start to play very fast (like eighth or sixteenth notes)?

Hello JP Allen. Could You explain how to do -4` etc... that u teach in that video, but showing you doing, cause how is in english it is not easy to understand what you're doing. It become easy seeing doing. Thank You!

The hardest part is 2 to 3half bend. Practice this thinking the song Spoonful.

Hi JP, I've been "playing" harmonica for almost two months. Your videos were among the first I came across and I've watched quite a few (along with some by other players). I try to practice everyday and feel I'm learning at a pretty nice pace. I've been working on your blues scale. The hardest part for me is going from 4 blow to 3 bend to 2 draw-especially from 3 bend to 2 draw. I just can't get a nice crisp transition from 3 to 2. Any tips you can give me. I really like the enthusiasm you put into your teaching. Thanks

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Great lesson, easy to follow, great to grow from, nice job!!!

How to do -4'

Yes, very informative!! Thank you!!

I like what you’re explaining but what if you’re not at the level where you can bend and fold and do all the yoga stuff with your mouth

thank you JP this is really helpful :-)

Thank you very much! Good video!

...and one more question: when you move from hole to hole down or up the scale, how is done by moving the lips vs. moving the harmonica? Thx again

Great help

Does this apply to all harmonica keys. If so, could some one give me a reason or a link to explain. How a d why. Thank you jp. And thank you youtube

Must notes to these correspond to ?

dankeschön

Invaluable!

2draw is the same as 3blow

Possibly stupid question here: Why Don't harmonica makers produce direct blues scale harmonicas? Wouldn't it be a lot easier to play blues if the scale was directly built in the harmonica?

Couldn't we sub the 2 hole draw with 3 blow to achieve the same scale

What's your opinion on a hohner special 20 key of g. Its what I bought

Excellent lesson, thank you much.

thanks

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Блин , а перевести и по русски написать слабо ?

Excellent, thanks!

is this the class room for learning math and not take meth

What is bend to half step? I dont think i even have the right harp because mine doesnt sound like yours at all :/ Mugig Harmonica 10 Holes

Simple explanation thanks

Good man! You hit my wavelength from the start

Where is the wobble or vibrato comning from say on the 2 at the end. Moving the harmonica? Help somebody!

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2 draw on my harmonica doesnt work

thank you so much for this video its such a straight forward lesson but I'm having trouble getting the bending notes to sound like yours

Great tutorial bro. Appreciate the exercise.

Thank You!

Ufff ...super

what kind of harmonica you using here?? hohner? i can't get my 2 to sound like yours

is this all done in just 1 breath?

Huzzah ..

Great Lession. Im way off the speed at the moment.

Thanks! Very helpful!!!

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Is this the same as a a harmonica?

I can’t through in 2 😿

excellent

Liked and subscribed!

would this work on a D harmonic ?

LOVELY....

You are a great teacher! I will never be able to bend a note but I will take your advice and a little bit every day.

How do I bend notes?

This is exactly the basic to learning blues, and then improvising. I never found this anywhere else. I am happy to have found this. I am a self-learnt harmonica player, but play other instrument as main, so can feel the importance of this scale to playing any blues. Thank you so much.

My draw 2 sounds different then yours. Blow 3 is just a bit sharp

Hey JP, I can't find "blues in the vault" can you link please.