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

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