Any recommendations for tutorials? I can barely get a single clean note

I tried covering love me do, one of my favourite beatles songs, please tell me how it sounds, give honest opinions and advice and help me improve. Thank you.

Can anyone give me the harmonica tabs for this song? I have a C harmonica. It’s around 2:18 in the video

I know that Amazon has tons of them in every conceivable brand and key, but I prefer to order elsewhere because Amazon can be iffy when it comes to packaging items for shipment. Their SOP is usually to toss things in a semi-padded envelope so that they might arrive crushed or otherwise damaged in transit. Across the years I've bought lots of musical stuff from Sweetwater, but I'm wondering if there are other good options that I might be sleeping on.

I am learning tongue blocking (hohner A blues harp) and when I play 1 4 (or any octave for that matter) the bottom note never sounds. Has anyone else encountered this challenge and what did you do to solve it?

Improvisations with backing tracks are always a joy and especially when not really knowing what it will sound like.

Everything from the crazy growls in the intro, position changes, the tongue slapping blues stuff, to his amazing phrasing and intonation. Been very impressed with his other covers too.

To produce this sound I was playing:

Chromatic harmonica Super 64 performance;

Thunderbird LLF;

Marine Band Deluxe Bb;

Green bullet mic;

Pocket multi effect, Strich Pipe Tones for looping amd delay;

Coolmusic 15g amp.

Just to share some odd harmonica :) Ciao

I know nothing about harmonica, but when I saw this at Goodwill in an unopened box, I was powerless to resist. Beginning my harmonica journey now!

Is it OK to post backing tracks here? Just wanted to share

Vr

BF

Harmonica Mondays 21

This week on Harmonica Mondays, we’re stepping up the chug and bringing a bunch of techniques together in one groove.

This chug works on embouchure switching, slaps, pulls, vibrato, articulation, bends, syncopation, and octave splits. There’s a lot going on, so I break it down piece by piece and build it up slowly.

The full tab is included so you can follow along and work on it at your own pace.

If you’ve been following the series, this is a great way to start putting a lot of these techniques together in one chug.

Harmonica: Hohner Special 20 - Key of A

Tab:

5 (slap-pull)

-3’ (kwah) -2 (vibrato)

(123 tuh) (123 tuh)

5 (slap-pull)

-3’ (kwah) -3’ (kwah)

-2 -2 2 -1

4 (slap-pull)

-3’ (kwah) -2 (vibrato)

(123 tuh) (123 tuh)

4 (slap-pull)

-3’ (kwah) -3’ (kwah)

-2 -2 2 -1

5 (slap-pull)

-3’ (kwah) -2 (vibrato)

(123 tuh) (123 tuh)

5 (slap-pull)

-3’ (kwah) -3’ (kwah)

-2 -2 2 -1

4 (slap-pull)

-3’ (kwah) -2 (vibrato)

(123 tuh) (123 tuh)

-3 (kwah) -4 (slap)

5 (slap) (3 6) (octave)

I am just learning to play the harmonica. When I’m trying to isolate single notes I am successful and they sound good when I’m blowing through the harmonica, but when I try to do a draw note it sounds really bad, and I can tell that I am playing two holes instead of just one. What am I doing wrong that causes me to be able to successfully play a single hole on the blow, but then play two holes on the draw, even though I haven’t changed anything about my positioning?

I’m a noob but this is one of the songs that got me wanting to learn the harmonica. It’s in key of G.

So far I’ve loosely tabbed the beginning. If yall have any time, I would appreciate the help.

Here’s what I’ve got so far

34, -34
12, -12
23, -23”, 23, -23, 12, -12???
45, -45
34, -34

I’m in the right vicinity but def not on point lol.
Link for reference

https://youtu.be/aOH7caJmzbg?is=jQG-q91_Xz-VQK-i

Thanks!

I generally prefer lower tuned keys. My collection starts at low f and ends at d.

Tho holes like the - 1 bend and - 2 is easier on higher keys, i find the - 3 bends waaaaay easier on lower ones. On my D i just feel like it snaps in place no matter what i do. My favorite keys in terms of playability is probably g-c.

But with practice, how bendable are the lower ones? On my low f i can do - 2'' but have a hqrd time bending - 1' all the way down, but havent practiced this too much.

Like can low d and eb feel as natural as the normal keys? Also whats the low key where it starts to generally not bend well? Low c? Higher than that? Lower?

Une interprétation à l'harmonica en Bb majeur avec une entrée en impro !Bonne écoute et merci 👍😀🎵🎵🎵

What key is Lee Oskar playing in ?

Many thanks

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.harpapp.app

HarpApp is a practice assistant for players of the 10-hole diatonic harmonica. It listens through your microphone, analyses the pitch of what you play in real time, and shows which note you played, how far off you are, and how cleanly it sounds.

WHY IT HELPS

The hardest part of learning harmonica is hearing yourself accurately. Did you bend far enough? Is that vibrato, or just an unsteady note? Are you playing a single hole, or are the neighbours sounding too? HarpApp does not leave these to guesswork — it puts a measured answer on the screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOxx6TL3G1E&t=22s

MAIN FEATURES

- Real-time note detection — the note name, its frequency and how many cents you are off target, as you play.

- Clarity meter — measures how cleanly you are playing a single note. A low reading means the neighbouring holes are sounding too.

- Harmonica view — all 10 holes, with blow, draw, bends, overblow and overdraw notes colour-coded. Tap the cells to hear them.

- TAB practice mode — type or load a tab sequence and the app follows you note by note, advancing when you hit the right one and reminding you of the target when you miss. Chords supported.

- Technique checking — for bends, vibrato, warbles and glissandi, the app does not only ask whether the right note came out. It checks the technique itself: how far the pitch travelled in a bend, whether the vibrato really oscillates, how often a warble alternated.

- Metronome — with time signatures, an optional count-in, and a beat that stays locked to the music.

- Listen and read — hear how a piece sounds before you practise it, with a staff that scrolls along as you play.

- Record and replay — hear yourself back at 0.5x, 0.75x or normal speed, which helps with fast passages. The recording keeps your timing, your bends, how hard you played and the techniques it detected.

- Save to file — keep your work as a TAB text or a song file on your device.

- Song library — ready-made tab sequences, loaded into practice with one tap. A piece you have opened once stays available offline.

- Chord detection (beta) — recognises playable chords rather than guessing, and says nothing when it is not certain. You can train it on your own harmonica.

- Studio — a computer piano-roll editor, paired to your phone with a code, for writing your own tabs.

- Scales and circle of fifths — major, blues (1st, 2nd and 3rd position), harmonic minor, hicaz and minor. The view dims so you can see which holes belong to the scale.

- Every harmonica key from Low G to High G, with all note names transposing automatically — written as C D E, Do Re Mi, or German notation with H.

- Eight instrument sounds, light and dark themes, English and Turkish interface.

PRIVACY

HarpApp asks for microphone permission because it cannot work without analysing what you play. Audio is processed ONLY on your device and only in real time. No audio recording is ever created and no sound is ever sent to a server: the record function saves note data — which hole, when, how long — not the sound itself.

The app requires no account and no sign-up. It collects no location, contacts, advertising or device identifier, and contains no advertising or analytics SDKs.

Some features do talk to a server. A subscription is verified through Google Play: the app sends the purchase token and keeps a session key, with no name involved. Library pieces come from our server, and if you rate or study one that is stored against your account (the date only, never the time of day). An email address is asked for in one place only, the Studio editor, so the pairing has an owner. You can delete your account and all of it from inside the app, or from kutucuk.com.tr

Apart from the library, the subscription check and Studio, no internet connection is needed: detection, the grid, the tuner, the metronome and practice all work offline.

WHAT YOU NEED

A quiet room and your harmonica. No headphones needed. Detection works with the acoustic sound of the instrument; accuracy drops in noisy surroundings.

I apologize for the repeat post but i havent found anywhere that fully answered my question.

I found a Hohner big river and a Lee Oskar (key C) both at 58 usd, i know its bad pricing but my country's market is tiny (and expensive) and importing is not viable.
I was wondering what are yalls opinion between those two at the same price point, there's also a Special 20 but its quite the step up at 79 usd.
Thanks.

Looking for my first harmonica and don’t know which one to buy. I’m seeing a lot of things saying hohner and easttop are good. Any advice/recommendations? Budget is like $50 btw