The riffs presented before you contain some fast phrasing, as well as bent notes and tongue blocking features that well fit this style of execution.

As I always do in my free harmonica lessons, I built the interactive videos on which you can perform the exercises listening to me and trying to imitate the execution. This harmonica lesson is intended for intermediate level players, however, beginner and upper-beginner students can get a worthy chance to play the riffs, just replacing single notes in place of the octaves indicated.

For each lick you’ll find also the tabs, where the notes and the harmonica holes are shown for your convenience.

Most of the sequences make use of the C major scale and some fast passages rely on the pentatonic scale as well. The backing track is in C major too.

Let’s now analyze the exercises as usual:

In the first lick we play 6 eight notes octaves, ending on the note C, the most important note of the key in wich we are. In measure two, we play a triplet and we get back to the home note C.