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Beginner thru Advanced levels: Dave has over thirty years of playing and teaching experience to help beginners get started properly or help players of any level resolve technique, theory, and general playing issues.

Bought my Marine Band C harmonica a couple of months ago and have been fooling around on it for a while without making much progress. I was excited to see a Facebook link this morning that offered me 21 days of free lessons because of my recent Hohner purchase.

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I get here, go through the signup drill and what do I see for my first beginner lesson-- Get out your A harmonica. We might use your C harmonica later. In fact, why don't you go out and buy a bunch of other harmonicas.

You obviously made this deal with Hohner. You can't be expecting total newbies to invest hundreds of dollars before they can get started. Maybe it's my fault for buying the wrong starter harmonica. Maybe I'm the only person who ever made it to this site with just one harmonica, but I doubt it.

Welcome to the site notmtwain. There's one simple answer to this... the A Harmonica is the most common harmonica used for playing blues. By starting with the A Harmonica... learning how to move around and bend on it... makes the A Harmonica the reference point for the new player... this is very important. As time goes on students move to the G Harmonica, then D Harmonica, etc... and yes, each harmonica is approached differently (especially bending).

Secondly, the site is built 100% for the education of the harmonica player... and if that means buying a small set of harmonicas to prepare you for the best education, then buy a small set. My opinion at least ;-) Your time is way more valuable than the $35 you spend on each harp. A beginner guitar combo (cheap guitar, amp, cable, picks, etc.) cost over $200. By the way, a small set is G, A, B-flat, C and D (a low F would be a wonderful addition as well).

Funny thing, so far an A harp hasn't been required at all. In fact, the text on the Blues Harmonica Fundamentals page says that a C harmonica is the one that is required and many of the videos use the C harmonica for demos.

I do think that your "Video intro to Section 1" will scare off a few people needlessly. Why not just welcome all players and all harmonicas for the first few sections? You make the point that most harmonicas don't last that long. We can get the A harmonica for our second and buy the full basket on our third trip.

to send you an hohner A harmonica (sp20 will be a prefect starter) as a welcome gift to this fantastic comunity, just pm me your address.

Hope it will make you feel as welcomed as I felt from the minute 1 I enrolled in this musician brotherhood

I was just trying to point something out to Mr. Barrett. He evidently made some kind of arrangement with Hohner, whereby they would direct purchasers to his site for some free harmonica lessons. Presumably he hopes to get some long term subscribers out of the deal.

I just thought he might want to consider that at least some of them might not welcome the first suggestion being that what they really need to do is to go back and buy four or five more harmonicas-- even if Hohner probably thinks that is just the greatest idea they ever heard.

I suggest that message could be postponed a bit and that there is actually no reason to have to rush out and buy a new harmonica before continuing with the online lessons. The last thing he wants is for people to click off the site thinking that they can't even get started until they make it back to the music store.

David is a good business man, absolutely. But he earns his living the hard way, he works for it constantly! Start to tally up what he produces, the CDs, the books, the web site, the lessons, the jam sessions, student concerts, continuing study and performance, transcriptions, interviews, artist studies......What have I missed? And he never runs out of stuff to offer us.

I don't know if David has a deal with Hohner, but if he does it's because he believes in the product. In the past 2 years I have learned about several harmonicas, it seems to me the Hohner is the best bet for those who are just trying things out, but not all students have the same mindset as you. I knew I wanted to go the distance with this and would have liked to have started with all custom harps of the best quality, it would have saved me money. David can't read people's minds.

Best of luck. Let me know what little gift you decide to send David when you realize he's the real thing. :-) There's no harder working harmonica teacher on the planet. Can't wait to hear about your progress and your aha! moments.

Wish I had seen this before purchase and sign up. I am rather annoyed by the same issue. Bought a C after research on web all of which points to the C as the best starter harmonica (which made sense based on previous musical experience) only to be told at first lesson "You need an A." And this thread was posted in 2011 so obviously nothing has been done to address the issue.

While I could easily buy another harmonica, the issue is the annoyance factor and feeling turned off by the experience. Sapping trust, interest and morale in the first lesson is a bad start. This Barret site looks great, and I doubt the issue is with the site or Mr. Barret, but rather with Hohner's packaging. "Free Lessons" on every harmonica, regardless of it's key. With zero warnings that you are buying the "wrong" one for the free lessons offered.

If you're new to harmonicas, you may not realize that every diatonic harmonica is identical to every other diatonic harmonica, regardless of key. You can play a song in the key of A using a C harmonica and all the holes will be exactly the same, only the pitch of the notes will be different.

I also started with a C harp and quickly relealized I needed an A and G harp. it was the best decision I made. If you want to learn how to play harmonica, get an A and a G harp and go through all aspects of lesson 1 and 2. David Barrett is an incredible teacher. Take your time and enjoy the journey. Dave will be there for you at all times. I characterize David as a man with integrity and dedicated to teaching. Also, please get the Amazing Slow Downer and Harp Ninja (make sure this program is compatible with your computer), and a Wittner MT-60 Metronome. If money is tight, only purchase an A harp for now. Hopefully you will continue your studies with Dave. It has been an amazing journey for me for over 5 years and I plan to continue learning with David for the foreseeable future. Good luck.

I'm pretty new too. Signed up using the free trial that came with my C harp. Unfortunately the trial code didn't work but signed up anyway. I decided that this site was going to be a slow burner for me and will take me a long time. Daves instruction is methodical and challenging and is certainly not going to be a fast track to learning to play. But it will embed the learning in me I'm sure. So anyway I bought an A harp, and a golden melody in c - harmonicas as so beautiful aren't they? And they cost less than a meal out (which I don't do!). So I say use a c harp to okay any song you like and get an A harp to work through the levels and take it real slow! It is a bit of an own goal by Hohner to include trials that don't work though!

Regarding your statement that "this site was going to be a slow burner for me and will take me a long time", that's pretty much the case with any musical instrument, especially your first instrument. It is rather easy to play harmonica "chordally", that is blow and draw multiple holes at a time In the style of Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen, and that's fine. Playing chordally is a perfectly legitimate way to play the harp. However, if you really want to play the harp for all it's worth, well, that will take time. There's a saying in photography that you can learn 80% in two weeks but the remaining 20% will take a lifetime. With the harp, it's a quite a bit longer but still the same principle. Enjoy the ride.

Welcome to the home of online blues harmonica lessons! In the spring of 2007, when YouTube was still in its infancy, I pioneered the delivery of blues harmonica teaching in the form of digitized, downloadable videos and tab sheets. "Modern" blues harmonica instruction was born!

I currently offer more than 70 lessons, most of them organized around specific songs. Except for the handful of introductory collections right up front, I've arranged them below in order of increasing difficulty, more or less, with the easiest lessons up front in the section marked BEGINNER / ADVANCED BEGINNER. (The lessons which require overblowing are all marked ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE and can be found at the very end.)

Each lesson is available two forms: as a video tutorial and as a tab sheet. The videos are in the same general style as my YouTube lessons, but focused much more specifically on a particular song and the techniques it requires. Players have the option of downloading either the video or the tab, or both. Although I always show the tab sheet onscreen in the video, the print is small; most players who purchase videos also purchase the accompanying tab. A few lessons ("Blues Scale," "Turnarounds," etc.) are appropriate for more than two levels. Particularly if this is your first visit to Modern Blues Harmonica, you should take the time to skim ALL the lessons below. I think you'll be impressed by the range of my offerings.