Deep Purple Smoke on the Water Riff on Harmonica

Difficulty: Medium
Lesson Length: 6:39
Instructor: George Goodman

In this video I'm playing a Hohner Special 20 Harmonica in the key of C. I often play through a Shure Green Bullet microphone Model 5200 and Fender Super Champ amplifier

Basically the main challenges harmonica players face - Single Notes, Bending and Air Support.

All three are covered in the Harmonica Essentials Harp N Guitar foundation course. Check out the course material here: Harmonica Essentials Course

Bent Harmonica

For help with bending, check out Bent Harmonica.

eBook and Video Get You Bending Like Crazy

* Wail Blues and Rock Riffs
* Graduate From Oh Suzanna to Sunshine of Your Love
* Enable the Warmth of the Bottom End
* Gain Confidence Soloing

BENT HARMONICA INCLUDES – Mechanics, Technique, Fine-tuning, and Exercises To Get You Bending the Heck Out of Your Harp

Introduction

Smoke on the Water was written and recorded by Deep Purple.

It first appeared on the album, Machine Head in 1972.

The harmonica part that I'm demonstrating is played in second position and so we'll use a C harmonica for this.

Harmonica Tabs

The notes that make up this lick are the first 4 notes of the Blues Scale.
Some bending will be required. In particular, we need to have a target single bend on draw 3 and draw 4.

-2 -3b 4
-2 -3b -4b -4
-2 -3b 4 -3b -2

Things To Note

This was recorded in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia in August 2020.

Join the conversation - Let me know how it goes - Leave a message below.

I hope you enjoyed the video. Give us a thumbs up, subscribe, pass it around.

Right on. See you in the next one.

Peace,

George