Harmonica Cheat Sheets

Harmonica Cheat Sheets - Introduction

This video series investigates and demonstrates the charts in George Goodman's Harmonica Cheat Sheets. Each of the charts contains the harmonica tabs that sound great when playing over a specific chord in the music.

Harmonica Cheat Sheets Introduction

Lesson Info

Lesson Length: 3:58

Instructor: George Goodman

An introductory look at the Harmonica Cheat Sheets.

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Gear Used

Hohner Special 20

Hohner Special 20 in C
In this lesson, as in most of the lessons, I am playing a Hohner Special 20 in the key of C.

Introduction

George Goodman’s Harmonica Cheat Sheets is a combination of four great tools to kick start your harmonica playing.
The Blues Harp Cheat Sheet
This Cheat Sheet provides chords, cross harp key, 12 Bar Blues Progression, and Blues Scale harmonica tabs covering all 12 keys.
Harmonica Chord Cheat Sheet
All major keys or scales consist of 7 notes. Chords can be built upon each of these notes of the scale. So a particular key will have 7 corresponding chords.
The Harmonica Chord Cheat Sheet will show you where the notes are on the harmonica for each of these chords in all 12 keys.
Also use the Harmonica Chord Cheat Sheet to help determine song keys and to aid in transposing songs to new keys.
Pentatonic Scale Cheat Sheet
A vast number of melodies are built off of 5 note scales known as pentatonic scales. There are 2 flavors – major and minor and they occur in a number of different spots on the harmonica.
Circle of Fourths and Fifths
Make sense of playing in positions using the Circle of Fourths and Fifths and learn how to choose the correct key harmonica depending on the key and style of a song.

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