Advanced Intermediate Practice Guides

Advanced Intermediate


Advanced Intermediate Month 1 (Click to go straight there now)

  • Opening up upper octave in 2nd position using Major Pentatonic Scale
  • Memorise Root Notes of I, IV, V in Upper Octave
  • Memorise Note Names of Major Pentatonic Scale across whole range of harmonica
  • Get Comfortable jumping between lower and upper octave using call and response licks 
  • Practice 1/4 note blow tremolos
  • Able to play 1/4 note triplets

Advanced Intermediate Month 2 (Click to go straight there now)

  • Comfortable playing 1/8th note blow tremolos
  • Building up speed using sliding licks in the upper octave
  • Jumping I, IV and V chord root notes across whole range of harmonica

Advanced Intermediate Month 3 (Click to go straight there now)

  • Triplet Blow Tremolos
  • Increased comfort moving around the Major Pentatonic Scale in 2nd position in the upper octave
  • Learning how to use the Major Pentatonic Scales and Blues Scales to create sweet melodic phrases contrasted with dark bluesy ones


Advanced Intermediate Month 4 (Click to go straight there now)

  • Make your chugging more musical
  • 1/4 note draw tremolos
  • Head roll Licks
  • Advanced one-chord vamping 


Advanced Intermediate Month 5 (Click to go straight there now)

  • Ghost chugging
  • 1/8th note draw tremolos
  • 12 Bar Blues shuffle chugging improvisation as an accompanist and soloist


Advanced Intermediate Month 6 (Click to go straight there now)

  • 1/16th Note Major Pentatonic Scale
  • Triplet note draw tremolos
  • Country Blues Rhythm and Improvisation


Advanced Intermediate Month 7 (Click to go straight there now)

  • Tongue-blocking single notes
  • Triplet note draw vibrato


Advanced Intermediate Month 8 (Click to go straight there now)

  • Switching embouchures at hole 4
  • Tongue-blocked bends
  • 1/16th note draw vibrato
  • Improvising around a hook riff


Advanced Intermediate Month 9 (Click to go straight there now)

  • Tongue Slaps
  • Tongue Switching
  • Reverse Glissandos


Advanced Intermediate Month 10 (Click to go straight there now)

  • Tongue Flutters
  • Fat Tongue-Blocked Hand Wah


Advanced Intermediate Month 11 (Click to go straight there now)

  • Tongue Pulls


Advanced Intermediate Month 12 (Click to go straight there now)

  • Advanced Intermediate Test Piece


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