Advanced Intermediate Practice Guides
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
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
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
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
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
Month 6 (Click to go straight there now)
- 1/16th Note Major Pentatonic Scale
- Triplet note draw tremolos
- Country Blues Rhythm and Improvisation
Month 7 (Click to go straight there now)
- Tongue-blocking single notes
- Triplet note draw vibrato
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
Month 9 (Click to go straight there now)
- Tongue Slaps
- Tongue Switching
- Reverse Glissandos
Month 10 (Click to go straight there now)
- Tongue Flutters
- Fat Tongue-Blocked Hand Wah
Month 11 (Click to go straight there now)
- Tongue Pulls
Month 12 (Click to go straight there now)
- Advanced Intermediate Test