Harmonica mouth-organ

playing single note on harmonica mouthorgan

Many readers asked me to write a post regarding how tp play a single note as they are finding it very difficult to produce a sharp sound of any single note.

so i would suggest two ways to play single notes:

(1) Single note playing with whistle position of mouth and blocking other notes with your fingers: Open your mouth as if you are going to whistle. With this position of the mouth, bring say the 4th hole of the mouth organ and hold tight against your lips and and place your fingers tightly over holes 3 and 5 and blow out of the 4th hole (exhale). If your fingers are tightly covering hole numbers 3 and 5, then you will get the clear single note. Do this many times until you get a clear note. It will take some time to create a pure single note. Then with the same position of the mouth, blow in (inhale) so as to create a pure note. Again try this method several times until you get a clear note. Memorize the sound and the position of the hole every time you create a pure note. Repeat this for all the remaining holes and memorize all the notes in a similar manner. Once you practice on all the holes, then you do not have to use your fingers to cover the previous and the next holes (in this example hole number 3 and 5, for playing hole number 4). You will be able to create a pure single note just by using whistle position (pouching) without having to use index fingers to cover hole number 3 and 5. Note that on every hole that you inhale and exhale, when you inhale you get the next note to the one that you got when you exhaled. Also by widening the whistle position of mouth you can play chords by blowing adjacent holes simultaneously.

Single note playing by blocking with tongue: Say you want to create a single note from the 4th hole using your tongue. To play a single note from hole 4, block holes 1, 2 and 3 using your tongue and blow out from hole 4 to create a pure note. Similarly create sound from other holes by using the blocking method. Blocking by tongue is a very difficult technique. For playing single notes, I would advise beginners to use the whistle position of the mouth as described in the earlier paragraph.

This post was made with reference from the article at : http://dr-narasinha-kamath.sulekha.com/blog/post/2002/11/mouth-organ-hai-apna-dil-yaad-kiya.htm ....

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