Learn bluegrass harmonica; Orange Blossom Special, easy fun!

About this course

Bluegrass Harmonica for you!Learn The Orange Blossom Special the easy way. All the parts demystified and tricks revealed - including the harp swapping technique.I'll give you all the tab and many backing tracks.Have you ever come across a tune you can’t play? It’s too hard, too fast, too energetic…me too.For me, the Orange Blossom Special is one of those.However a student wanted to learn this so I set about preparing a course to make it possible for you to play this piece – and here it is.In the course we go through the whole thing – except improvising, and I’ll do more on that soon.You will be able to play the whole tune and also the chord section.This is a Bluegrass or Country fiddle tune and one of my favourites played on guitar, banjo, fiddle, violin, and piano plus singing of course. I heard Charlie McCoy playing it in Germany a few years back and always wanted to make it available for my students!Very often they will play in E using an E harp for most of the tune adding an A harp for the bridge.Or F and Bb is another coupling.The higher harps have shorter reeds and you can play faster with the enhanced response.As most people have a C harp I’m using just that for this course. If you have an F (high or low) that would be the other harp in the couple.Check out versions by :Charlie McCoy Jonny Cash Buddy GreeneMike Stevens & Raymond McLain - 2007 - Orange Blossom SpecialKlezmer Company Orchestra presents Spirit of America: Gershwin & Copland. Randi Fishenfeld and Teresa Flores perform "Orange Blossom Special" during the Klezmer Company Orchestra's Spirit of America Concert, June 28, 2009.

Course objectives

• demystify the parts of 'Orange Blossom Special'
• teach effective harmonica techniques
• provide students with supplemental materials like tabs and backing tracks