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Learn bluegrass harmonica; Orange Blossom Special, easy fun!

44 mins on-demand video

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Brief Introduction

Learn how to play fast, how to breathe and play smoothly, start with basics and build speed gradually to about Warp 5.

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Bluegrass Harmonica for you!

Learn The Orange Blossom Special the easy way. All the parts demystified and tricks revealed - including the harp swapping technique.

I'll give you all the tab and many backing tracks.

Have you ever come across a tune you can’t play? It’s too hard, too fast, too energetic…me too.

For me, the Orange Blossom Special is one of those.

However a student wanted to learn this so I set about preparing a course to make it possible for you to play this piece – and here it is.

In the course we go through the whole thing – except improvising, and I’ll do more on that soon.

You will be able to play the whole tune and also the chord section.

This is a Bluegrass or Country fiddle tune and one of my favourites played on guitar, banjo, fiddle, violin, and piano plus singing of course. I heard Charlie McCoy playing it in Germany a few years back and always wanted to make it available for my students!

Very often they will play in E using an E harp for most of the tune adding an A harp for the bridge.

Or F and Bb is another coupling.

The higher harps have shorter reeds and you can play faster with the enhanced response.

As most people have a C harp I’m using just that for this course. If you have an F (high or low) that would be the other harp in the couple.

Check out versions by :

Charlie McCoy

Jonny Cash

Buddy Greene

Mike Stevens & Raymond McLain - 2007 - Orange Blossom Special

Klezmer Company Orchestra presents Spirit of America: Gershwin & Copland. Randi Fishenfeld and Teresa Flores perform "Orange Blossom Special" during the Klezmer Company Orchestra's Spirit of America Concert, June 28, 2009.