Blues harmonica teacher
Play blues harmonica, from first note to first bend
I’m Clarence. I teach blues harmonica on a ten-hole harp, and I sell printed tab, charts and two video courses for people who are starting out.
Under $15
PDF · 4 pages
Which Harp to Buy
The keys, makes and models to look for in a first harp, and what to ignore. An evening’s reading.
PDF · 28 pages
Ten Blues Songs in Tab
Ten old tunes written out in tab for a harp in C, from a slow one-note song to a full twelve bar. A month or two of playing.
$15 to $30
$30 and up
Video course · 6 lessons
Blues Harp from the First Note
From holding the harp to a whole twelve bar blues, in a few weeks of short lessons.
Online course
My course
Video course · 6 lessons
Blues Harp from the First Note
From holding the harp to a whole twelve bar blues, in a few weeks of short lessons.
About
About me
I have played the harmonica for more than forty years, in a small town in the Mississippi Delta where the road is flat and the evenings are long. I started on a cheap harp I found in a drawer and learned a note at a time from old records, one slow listen after another. It took me a long time to bend a note. I want it to take you less.
Now I teach it. The videos are filmed on my porch, in plain words, with a harp in my hand and a notebook on the table. What I sell is what I wished I had at the start: a one-page sheet for your first note, charts for the blues, tab for the old tunes and two video courses, one from the first note to a twelve bar and one just for bends. Some of it takes ten minutes and some of it takes months. I do not sell harps. I teach you to play the one you have.
Newsletter
Porch Notes
A short letter every Sunday from the porch: one tune, one tip and one thing to try on the harp this week.
Questions
How do the downloads arrive?
After checkout you receive an email with a download link, and the same link is shown on the confirmation page. Every file is a PDF made to print on ordinary A4 or Letter paper.
How do the video courses work?
You pay once and the lessons appear in your account straight away. Watch them in order, as slowly as you like, on a phone or a laptop. The bending course is meant to be taken over months, not days.
Is there merch?
Yes: tees, totes, mugs, prints and stickers with my own designs. Each is printed to order and shipped by Printful, and the cost and delivery time show at checkout.
Which harmonica do I need?
A ten-hole diatonic harp in the key of C, from any maker, is all the lessons ask for. It costs little, and the Which Harp to Buy sheet tells you what to look for.