Advanced Beginner

Month 1 (Click to go straight there now)

• Basic understanding of harmonica positions

• Knowledge of simple pentatonic scale

• Ability to use a metronome 

• 12 bar blues structure knowledge

• Rhythmic improvisation over a 12 bar blues

Month 2 (Click to go straight there now)

 • Improve 4 draw bend

 • 1/8th note rhythms

 • Rhythmic improvisation around a 12 bar blues

Month 3 (Click to go straight there now)

 • Starting to learn blues scale

 • Understanding tension and resolution of the flat 5

 • Shuffle Rhythms

 • 3 draw half step bend

Month 4 (Click to go straight there now)

• Work on the full blues scale

• Building great sounding solos using AAA, AAB and ABC song forms

• Proper breathing on the harmonica

• Understanding 2nd position and playing in different keys

Month 5 (Click to go straight there now)

• Chugging

• Vamping

• Mixing chugging and single note licks over a 12 bar blues

Month 6 (Click to go straight there now)

• Comfortable with comping

• 12 bar blues with lower and upper octave root notes and pivot note

• 2 draw whole step bend

Month 7 (Click to go straight there now)

• Understand triplets

• Able to play blues scale with triplet rhythm slowly

• 12 Bar Blues with triplet licks

• Write your own triplet licks

• Refined 2 draw whole step bend

• Using a 2 draw whole step bend in riffs

• Learning how to practice more effectively

Month 8 (Click to go straight there now)

• Warbles 

• Triplet blues scale with metronome nice and slowly

• 1 draw half step bend

• Adding in extra notes to the blues scale

Month 9 (Click to go straight there now)

• Hole-skipping

• Pick-up phrases

• Quick change 12 bar blues

Month 10 (Click to go straight there now)

• Glissandos

• Keeping count over a slow blues

• Playing a slow blues

• Using doublestops to develop a blues solo

• Playing a 3 draw whole step bend

Month 11 (Click to go straight there now)

• Speed push with blues scale

• Playing an unaccompanied 12 Bar Blues

• Improvisation in spaces between rhythmic riffs

• Developing one bar licks

Month 12 (Click to go straight there now)

• Test Piece