Fantastic. Loved this exercise. I'm new to jazz and the chromatic as I'm usually a blues and diatonic player. This is such a great introductory exercise.
Thank you so much! I'm new to the chromatic and am amazed at the sound it produces. This exercise has been very helpful! Subbed and can't wait to learn more from you.
Thank You Filip. You have a wonderful style of teaching the Jazz stuff. Your tempo, grade of theorie depth and the content You convey is very cool for me. Thanks man😊 And Your playing is also beautyful
Hello Filip … I'm a big fan of your videos, especially the ones where you teach Jazz… maybe you could teach us how to play TAKE FIVE -DAVE BRUBECK … on the diatonic harmonica… Tank you…greetings from Brazil
Oh, I liked this - and even the bonus at the end was so funny, too! I have got my harmonicas just recently, both chromatic and C-diatonic so maybe this video was technically a bit too early for me... or, maybe not: the chromatic one seems not to be "that impossible". The video and the comparison between those 2 types of harmonica is really interesting to me just now, when I try to figure out, "how do you drive this vehicle?" This video is so inspirational, and I like your way to explain also from the music-theoretical view - so I can use that idea in my other instruments right away ;) So, I write these licks down and start practicing them with my chromatic harmonica slowly first, and come back to this video again to play with you with the backing track. Maybe even in the future, when technically learned the bending, also with the diatonic one? (Btw: is there a mistake on the numbers in G-major example for diatonic? Note F# is marked with the number 5o... what does it mean? o is a button in chromatic, and bends are ´ or´´ .... so, what does that mark mean there? A whole step up?)
Chromatic sounds so much more clearer if you know what I mean. I only play diatonic, but chromatic has my attention a lot. Can I buy a chromatic and learn to play as well? I am a beginner.
@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasntBought one 3 weeks ago. And I can tell you that it isn’t really my cup of tea. Funny thing is that I already sold it for the same price I bought it for. 😅 Let me know what your thoughts are?
Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge. It has really helped and inspired me a lot. I've been thinking a lot about why you often choose to, like in the example given above, play the C note with -4° instead of 4 and the F note with 2° instead of -2 (which would be easier for my brain..) Is there a particular reason?
Thanks! Draw C - good question! In C major: It creates more legato to the B note. In F major: In the video I play the C as a 5 blow mostly and 4 draw w button once, but when I wrote out the tab and played it through it made more sense to play D C Bb A, as -5, -4°, -3°, -3 = more legato phrasing than the blow 5 version. In G major: same as C major, creates more legato feel to the B. Hope this helps! Filip
@@FilipJersMusic Thanks Filip. Playing the flute I developed a very fast inhalation which with the harmonica I have to control to avoid the drawn notes being too loud. So, longer draw phrases are great exercise.
This just opened my eyes regarding using the button more often, I'd never thought it'd be worth it playin a C on a draw, but it does come off easier in the end. My harmonica does sound a bit out of tune sometimes, do you recommend me to try and tune it myself?
@FilipJersMusic Hey, your video is so cool! thanks so much:) When you play the c diatonic, what means the little circle at the right top of the 5? probably an effect with the mouth?
It is to make the line sound smoother and more legato. In C major drawC connects the A and B better. In F major the C as draw note connects better to the D and Bb, making D C Bb A just as a draw notes. If you look closely I play the C as a 5 blow sometimes in the video (when we play in key o F) but otherwise I like it more as a draw note. But I wrote it as draw4, that sounds smoother to me. And F as a 2blow, in C major that makes more legato between G F E (blow 3 notes), so you don't have to switch breath directions all the time. But I use drawF as well, sometimes I use both the blow/draw F and C in the same phrase.
@@FilipJersMusic I really love your content and your playing style. I'm really looking forward to having some time to subscribe to your Patreon. anyway, on that subject, I'd like to ask if there is a common-way/standard among harmonicists on when and how to use the "duplicated notes" on the chromatic? or is this something that each player will come up with after a time? also, how would you recommend exploring these "duplicated notes"? I've been practising arpeggios and I wonder what layout would you recommend to practice and what changes should we introduce gradually? just one last thing, I'd love to see you playing some bossa nova or samba in the harmonica! I'm pretty sure it would be something beautiful to listen! cheers!
Hi Pere! No sorry, I don't cover tremolo lessons. Yes! I have lots of jazz diatonic lessons there. Almost every video is meant to be for both chromatic and diatonic but some has to be special made for each instrument because of the different techniques used.
Too long answer to write in a RUclips comment :-) I aim for legato playing and the closet and smoothest way between the notes. Then it is great to have the option to take the same note on both blow and draw. And they also sound a bit different so it is depending on what timbre you want.
hello my name is Nicola and I am writing to you from Italy .. I am attracted by the chromatic harmonica so I would like to learn how to play it. I have some rudiments of music theory and I would like to play pop rock melodies but above all some jazz standards. I am also attracted to another instrument that perhaps can be defined as similar the diamonic or melodic. Do you think it is easier to learn the melodic or the harmonica? However, it seems to me that the colors of the sounds that can be reproduced with the harmonica are warmer and more intense, even if real chords cannot be played. What do you think ? Can you give me some advice? Thanks and congratulations
You should play the instrument you love the sound of most! Melodica migh be a good compliment to the harmonica because you are able to see the notes that you are playing. Harmonica is more invisible to the player.
Great way to practice bends. I can't nearly keep up with you on a diatonic, but I'm closer in speed on a chrome. I'm sure the correct speed takes practice and time. You are providing an attainable goal by my wanting to keep up with you. Unfortunately I under or overshoot the two step bend on my diatonic 3 hole some of the time. Excellent way to work on diatonic 3 hole bending control. Your tone is amazing.
Hi Howard! Thanks for your kind words, I am happy you like my teaching methods! Great to hear that you play both chromatic and diatonic! You can change the speed of the RUclips video by pressing the wheel in the right corner. Maybe that can help you to nail the 3 darw whole step. I did another video on that note actually - see my playlist for harmonica lessons here on RUclips. Just keep on practicing and all is coming.
Thank you. I will look for your lesson on controlling the 3 hole two step bend. It's easy enough to bend that hole all the way down. Not so easy for me to stop on the A (C Harp) both on the way up and down with precision. A work in progress.
I've been practicing and feel I am progressing on the chrome exercises. It is a great lesson and the music notation is useful. In your G Maj diatonic exercise, the F# (fifth note) appears to be a one step OB. Am I correct? At this point I am able to do some blow bends, but that is not one of them. I am finding the other 2 diatonic exercises simpler to do. If that is an OB in the G Maj diatonic, you make it look incredibly effortless with great tone. You make it look/sound as easy as if it was a simple draw or blow note.
@@howardherman3323 Hi again! Many thanks! Yes in G major, the F# is an overblow in hole 5. To play this lick in C or F just bending technique is fine, but moving to G major, one needs that overblow in hole 5.
no offense to this video.... but all the words he saying sounds like a complete different langage from me ... the major third of the one chord?? d minor triad?? g mixolidian scale down?? im legit clueless.. i never learned about this, do i have to go to music school for that? i feel incredibly lost from watching this... i like to learn tho and i am motivated.. but i just need someone to point me in the right direction as this doesnt seem like a good starting point to me.. i only understand blow, draw, and push button... as i said: no offense to the video tho, its probably a really good tutorial for the people with more knowledge than me
www.patreon.com/filipjersharmonica 🎵🚀🎵
I didn’t realize how easy it would be to play a simple Jazz lick on my chromatic until now. Thank you Filip.
Great lesson and insights, thank you 🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Hey Filip, thanks for the video, great!
Glad you liked it!
Adding the music notation helps a lot as well as hearing it over a backing track! And love trying it in more than one key. Keep em coming!
Thanks Keith, happy to hear that!
I love hearing you explain everything but by bit. I’m very grateful for the way you articulate yourself both verbally and harmonica(lly) 🙌
You are so welcome! Happy you like it!
Learning a. Lot from you. Thank you.
Thanks for watching! Happy to help.
Very useful
Thanks
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Thank you 🙏
Fantastic. Loved this exercise. I'm new to jazz and the chromatic as I'm usually a blues and diatonic player. This is such a great introductory exercise.
Glad it was helpful!
This id brilliant 👏
Thank you for this essential lick. I suggest at the end of the lick to play G E F G E instead of G F E as a variation.
Thanks so much for watching! Please share you biggest takeaway in the comments below 😀
sir tour side work is superb.
Hi love it thanks. Where can we find the backing track?
Thank you so much! I'm new to the chromatic and am amazed at the sound it produces. This exercise has been very helpful! Subbed and can't wait to learn more from you.
Thank You Filip. You have a wonderful style of teaching the Jazz stuff. Your tempo, grade of theorie depth and the content You convey is very cool for me. Thanks man😊 And Your playing is also beautyful
Thank you for your lessons Master 😊
Hi Filip, thanks for the great lesson - it’s really interesting to se and listen to the same piece of music on both types of harmonica!
Glad you liked it!
Thank you Filip!!! Your tonality is just sooooooooo beautiful!!!
Thanks Bruce! I am glad you like it!
Hello Filip … I'm a big fan of your videos, especially the ones where you teach Jazz… maybe you could teach us how to play TAKE FIVE -DAVE BRUBECK … on the diatonic harmonica… Tank you…greetings from Brazil
Inspiring, thank you…
Thanks for watching!
I love ❤️ it 👍
thank you for a great lesson!
Thanks for watching!
Great man, thanks!!✌🎶
I have that tune going around in my head, LOL
Good :-)
Excellent Sir ❤️
Thanks Ammar!
Oh, I liked this - and even the bonus at the end was so funny, too! I have got my harmonicas just recently, both chromatic and C-diatonic so maybe this video was technically a bit too early for me... or, maybe not: the chromatic one seems not to be "that impossible". The video and the comparison between those 2 types of harmonica is really interesting to me just now, when I try to figure out, "how do you drive this vehicle?" This video is so inspirational, and I like your way to explain also from the music-theoretical view - so I can use that idea in my other instruments right away ;) So, I write these licks down and start practicing them with my chromatic harmonica slowly first, and come back to this video again to play with you with the backing track. Maybe even in the future, when technically learned the bending, also with the diatonic one? (Btw: is there a mistake on the numbers in G-major example for diatonic? Note F# is marked with the number 5o... what does it mean? o is a button in chromatic, and bends are ´ or´´ .... so, what does that mark mean there? A whole step up?)
Chromatic sounds so much more clearer if you know what I mean. I only play diatonic, but chromatic has my attention a lot.
Can I buy a chromatic and learn to play as well? I am a beginner.
@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasntBought one 3 weeks ago. And I can tell you that it isn’t really my cup of tea.
Funny thing is that I already sold it for the same price I bought it for. 😅
Let me know what your thoughts are?
@@b-rj1171I only have one thought. Why would someone buy anothers harmonica ? 😂
@@PetercrossedBecause the one I sold him was not available in the Netherlands anymore at that moment. 😅👍🏻
Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge. It has really helped and inspired me a lot. I've been thinking a lot about why you often choose to, like in the example given above, play the C note with -4° instead of 4 and the F note with 2° instead of -2 (which would be easier for my brain..) Is there a particular reason?
It is to build phrasing and legato lines. It is about the correct articulation and sync that with the tuning pattern of the harmonica.
This is great, as are all of your videos. What are some well-known jazz tunes that this solo fits?
Any tune that use a 2 5 1 in C. For example Satin Doll by Duke Ellington!
@@FilipJersMusic And Sunny Side of the Street?
Hi Fillip my biggest take away is that the lick really helps you internalize the minor 7 arpeggio on the one chord, it makes it more musical & fun!
Hi Marcos - happy to hear that!
@@FilipJersMusic I meant the two chord!
Yes 👌👌👌
Very appreciated, your lessons, tone and timing. Question though, why draw the c? In this case I mean.
Thanks! Draw C - good question!
In C major: It creates more legato to the B note.
In F major: In the video I play the C as a 5 blow mostly and 4 draw w button once, but when I wrote out the tab and played it through it made more sense to play D C Bb A, as -5, -4°, -3°, -3 = more legato phrasing than the blow 5 version.
In G major: same as C major, creates more legato feel to the B.
Hope this helps!
Filip
@@FilipJersMusic Thanks Filip. Playing the flute I developed a very fast inhalation which with the harmonica I have to control to avoid the drawn notes being too loud. So, longer draw phrases are great exercise.
@@leonardvanbiljouw5330 wow, cool to hear! I also play a bit of flute, love it 🎶💯🎶
Which Suzuki diatonic harp do you use here?
This just opened my eyes regarding using the button more often, I'd never thought it'd be worth it playin a C on a draw, but it does come off easier in the end. My harmonica does sound a bit out of tune sometimes, do you recommend me to try and tune it myself?
Thanks! 🎵😀🎵 happy to inspire! Yes learning to tune your own instruments is worth a lot. Start on an old harmonica first! Gentle steps.
Hallo Filip. A have a problem with notes on diatonic harmonica with circle .How play this tones ? thanks, Ale
@FilipJersMusic
Hey, your video is so cool! thanks so much:) When you play the c diatonic, what means the little circle at the right top of the 5? probably an effect with the mouth?
Overblow
Dear Filip, could you explain why you play on chrom C as -4o and F as 2o? Is the reason is articulation/ornamentation on draw hole?
It is to make the line sound smoother and more legato. In C major drawC connects the A and B better. In F major the C as draw note connects better to the D and Bb, making D C Bb A just as a draw notes. If you look closely I play the C as a 5 blow sometimes in the video (when we play in key o F) but otherwise I like it more as a draw note. But I wrote it as draw4, that sounds smoother to me.
And F as a 2blow, in C major that makes more legato between G F E (blow 3 notes), so you don't have to switch breath directions all the time.
But I use drawF as well, sometimes I use both the blow/draw F and C in the same phrase.
@@FilipJersMusic I really love your content and your playing style. I'm really looking forward to having some time to subscribe to your Patreon.
anyway, on that subject, I'd like to ask if there is a common-way/standard among harmonicists on when and how to use the "duplicated notes" on the chromatic? or is this something that each player will come up with after a time?
also, how would you recommend exploring these "duplicated notes"? I've been practising arpeggios and I wonder what layout would you recommend to practice and what changes should we introduce gradually?
just one last thing, I'd love to see you playing some bossa nova or samba in the harmonica! I'm pretty sure it would be something beautiful to listen!
cheers!
Thank you very much, in your Patreon do you cover tremolo harmonica? And do you have jazz diatonic lessons?
Hi Pere! No sorry, I don't cover tremolo lessons.
Yes! I have lots of jazz diatonic lessons there. Almost every video is meant to be for both chromatic and diatonic but some has to be special made for each instrument because of the different techniques used.
Very nice video 👍 Where can we find the backing track?
It is on my Patreon page. Thanks for watching!
When you can get the same note in two diferent places, how do you choose which one to play?...like the :C: note in the first lick you taught us?
Too long answer to write in a RUclips comment :-) I aim for legato playing and the closet and smoothest way between the notes. Then it is great to have the option to take the same note on both blow and draw. And they also sound a bit different so it is depending on what timbre you want.
hello my name is Nicola and I am writing to you from Italy .. I am attracted by the chromatic harmonica so I would like to learn how to play it. I have some rudiments of music theory and I would like to play pop rock melodies but above all some jazz standards. I am also attracted to another instrument that perhaps can be defined as similar the diamonic or melodic. Do you think it is easier to learn the melodic or the harmonica? However, it seems to me that the colors of the sounds that can be reproduced with the harmonica are warmer and more intense, even if real chords cannot be played. What do you think ? Can you give me some advice? Thanks and congratulations
You should play the instrument you love the sound of most!
Melodica migh be a good compliment to the harmonica because you are able to see the notes that you are playing. Harmonica is more invisible to the player.
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Holy mustache!!!
Great way to practice bends. I can't nearly keep up with you on a diatonic, but I'm closer in speed on a chrome. I'm sure the correct speed takes practice and time. You are providing an attainable goal by my wanting to keep up with you. Unfortunately I under or overshoot the two step bend on my diatonic 3 hole some of the time. Excellent way to work on diatonic 3 hole bending control. Your tone is amazing.
Hi Howard! Thanks for your kind words, I am happy you like my teaching methods! Great to hear that you play both chromatic and diatonic!
You can change the speed of the RUclips video by pressing the wheel in the right corner. Maybe that can help you to nail the 3 darw whole step. I did another video on that note actually - see my playlist for harmonica lessons here on RUclips.
Just keep on practicing and all is coming.
Thank you. I will look for your lesson on controlling the 3 hole two step bend. It's easy enough to bend that hole all the way down. Not so easy for me to stop on the A (C Harp) both on the way up and down with precision. A work in progress.
I've been practicing and feel I am progressing on the chrome exercises. It is a great lesson and the music notation is useful. In your G Maj diatonic exercise, the F# (fifth note) appears to be a one step OB. Am I correct? At this point I am able to do some blow bends, but that is not one of them. I am finding the other 2 diatonic exercises simpler to do. If that is an OB in the G Maj diatonic, you make it look incredibly effortless with great tone. You make it look/sound as easy as if it was a simple draw or blow note.
@@howardherman3323 Hi again! Many thanks! Yes in G major, the F# is an overblow in hole 5. To play this lick in C or F just bending technique is fine, but moving to G major, one needs that overblow in hole 5.
@@FilipJersMusic It is amazing how easy you make that look and how great your tone is! It will take a lot of time before I progress to that.
like moose and squirrel.
Is your brother alex paclin?
it is hip & spicy 🌶🫑
This guy is evidence that different species hybridized with humans in remote antiquity.
Same way to teach same way to tolk same gestures
no offense to this video.... but all the words he saying sounds like a complete different langage from me ... the major third of the one chord?? d minor triad?? g mixolidian scale down?? im legit clueless.. i never learned about this, do i have to go to music school for that? i feel incredibly lost from watching this... i like to learn tho and i am motivated.. but i just need someone to point me in the right direction as this doesnt seem like a good starting point to me..
i only understand blow, draw, and push button...
as i said: no offense to the video tho, its probably a really good tutorial for the people with more knowledge than me
unnecessary chatter, enough demonstration and tabs