You Can Teach Yourself Harmonica (book/CD)

Mel Bay Publications
You Can Tech Yorself Harmonica by George Heaps-Nelson and Barbara McClintock Koehler
Level : Beginning

A wonderful, easy-to-understand beginning harmonica book for both folk and blues harmonica stylings. Several different styles are analyzed and representive tunes are given in each style. With the various sections the songs are roughly graded as to difficulty.
An extra section examines some specialized techniques and introduces some harmonicas other than the standard ten-hole-twenty-reed diatonic harp (in the key of C) for which most of the songs in this book are written. All together, 41 harmonica arrangements are included.

Tunes:

• A Nickle Is A Nickle       
• Arkansas Traveler      
• Boogie      
• Bury Me Beneath The Willow       
• Colorado Trail       
• Do Lord       
• Drill Ye Tarriers      
• Early In The Mornin'       
• Frankie And Johnny       
• Frankie's Blues       
• Gary Owen       
• George's Blues 1       
• George's Blues Ii       
• Haste To The Wedding       
• Hurtin Blues       
• John Henry       
• Miss Mcclouds Reel       
• O Shenandoah      
• Old Joe Clark       
• Pistol Slapper Blues       
• Poor Wayfaring Stranger       
• Pretty Polly       
• Rosin The Beau       
• Round The Bend       
• Rovin Gambler       
• Rye Whiskey       
• Sally Goodin'       
• Skip To My Lou I      
• Soldiers Joy       
• Streets Of Laredo       
• The Gal I Left Behind Me       
• The Prisoner's Lament       
• The Wreck Of The Old 97       
• Tongue Tapping Blues       
• Wabash Cannonball       
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home       
• When The Saints Go Marching In      
• Wild Horse At Stoney Point       
• Year Of Jubilo