Smoke On The Water Harmonica Lesson
Blackmore's classic riff from Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water transcribed for harmonica.
Difficulty: Medium
Lesson Length: 6:39
Instructor: George Goodman
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
Cheers, George
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George, Thanks for the pointer to avoid ‘scooping’ into bends on smoke on the water riff.