[LiteraryLark]

I'm asking because today I picked up a harmonica for the first time and I am loving it! When I was little I began to play the guitar but not very well...My brother has a bass guitar and a harmonica, and after frustrating my grandparents several times about going against their advice (what about buying this? or this? or what about taking lessons? or what if i...?) I picked up my brother's harmonica and freestyled and fell in love with it. I am now learning to play "You Are My Sunshine" and I am getting better and better at it. My brother's harmonica has the notes labeled from 1-10, so at first I looked at the notes of the song I wrote down, then the notes on the harmonica, now I can look at the notes on the paper without looking at the notes on the harmonica! My next goal is to be able to master the song and play it without looking at any notes.

I'm so excited!

Not sure when or if I'll play bass, but I know it's there when I'm ready to learn it.

[Sabrina]

My son picked up a guitar for this first time about 8 months ago (he was 17). It was a borrowed guitar. After a week, he had made a plan to buy a guitar. He has been teaching himself various tunes (even ACDC) and has shown real natural talent. I would now like to send him for some lessons to teach him the basics, or some theory, or something that would help him, since he's self taught. I was very impressed. I sing classical but my son did not pick up my singing talent.

My stepdaughter sings in the choir and has us pay a fortune for singing lessons. I heard her for the first time the other night and I'm truly surprised to admit that she is totally tone deaf. She could not carry a tune at all. Yet she plays piano and flute very nicely. Grandmother has paid for those lessons since she was little.

Drums, piano, guitar, recorder, and kalimba. Harmonica is tough

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piano and harp.

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[Loial]

Originally Posted by Sabrina

My son picked up a guitar for this first time about 8 months ago (he was 17). It was a borrowed guitar. After a week, he had made a plan to buy a guitar. He has been teaching himself various tunes (even ACDC) and has shown real natural talent. I would now like to send him for some lessons to teach him the basics, or some theory, or something that would help him, since he's self taught. I was very impressed.

A website that is really good for free lessons, if your son hasn't already come across, is:

Justin Guitar

Myself, I play guitar (electric & acoustic) & have also dabbled with a bass guitar on occasion.

I would love to learn piano though.

church organ, keyboard, and trying the guitar now. I think it will take me years to learn the guitar
I had a harmonica for my kids once, it sounds like fun

[kindachaotic]

piano by ear

[The_little_didgee]

Electric bass and acoustic guitar.

[BlueEyedMama]

The guitar and the electric base. I can play the piano but not very well I am afraid.

[kicker412]

Originally Posted by George H.

Drums, piano, guitar, recorder, and kalimba. Harmonica is tough

Some people can get harmonica pretty easily. I can't! And I'm like you -- I play piano, guitar, bass, clarinet and percussion.

[Blue_Bird]

I play the violin :-)

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[(JD)]

Keyboard.
Used to play piano, guitar, hand bells, step bells, tambourine, folk flute/pipe... my sons played tenor sax, drums...

[CaptainChaos79]

Flute piccolo saxaphone clarinet oboe xylophone and anything else woodwind in nature

[Travelinglady]

The piano, the clarinet, and the comb.

[Denzel24]

I play the guitar but I want to learn how to play a Bass guitar, keyboard/piano or drums.

[Nammu]

Where I grew up everyone had to play something it was required to graduate. I played piano( badly) accordion (very badly) guitar ( got a passing grade) I don't I could play a thing now but I remember, every good boy does fine.

[LiteraryLark]

Google is the answer for everything!

I learned how to play single notes after realizing I wasn't playing single notes in the first place! There's a couple notes that are hard to hit. But I am learning a lot through google and youtube searches.

[Yoda]

clarinet, oboe and trumpet

This actually was once a trigger for me. I was forced to play musical instruments as part of my upbringing and the memories are difficult. I had to endur both alto sax and the violin. It was excruciating. I was terribly tone deaf and even my instructors pleaded with my mother to allow me to give up. But, as always, she too took this personally as a stab in her back, that I was trying to humiliate her on purpose. Not a pleasant part of my life.

Ironically both of my children are musical.

[LiteraryLark]

Originally Posted by rcat

This actually was once a trigger for me. I was forced to play musical instruments as part of my upbringing and the memories are difficult. I had to endur both alto sax and the violin. It was excruciating. I was terribly tone deaf and even my instructors pleaded with my mother to allow me to give up. But, as always, she too took this personally as a stab in her back, that I was trying to humiliate her on purpose. Not a pleasant part of my life.

Ironically both of my children are musical.

I didn't know it was possible to turn an upbeat thread into something incredibly negative.

[LiteraryLark]

Moving on...

I'm sure I can google this, but there is one particular note that doesn't sound good when I play it as a single note.

I can play the opposite (farthest) note easily, but when I play the lowest note

1. It's very difficult to hit that lowest single note
2. It sounds like a dying seal
3. I can't draw on that single lowest note

Is it me or the harmonica? Suggestions?

[LiteraryLark]

LOL I just googled it....it's me! xD Gotta work on my technique!

Blues Harmonica FAQ's: for beginning harmonica players and harmonica students

[eskielover]

I took piano lessons starting at age 5....never really liked it though I enjoy playing now.

Took up the flute in junior high....actually got my AA degree in music with flute as my instrument. Loved playing in chamber groups & flute choirs & orchestras.

In high school played flute in marching band. We had fun after the games we would drive down to Hollywood Blvd to have pizza...the pizza place had kazoos so we would walk down the blvd playing our kazoos....lol..back in the late 60's when it wasn't as dangerous as it would be today.

I attempted to learn violin but couldn't ever get it to sound like anything but a screeching cat with its tail being pulled.

Piano is the only thing I play now & am sort of stand in at church when our organist is away though without lots of practice sometimes I only play the right hand.

My grandfather played harmonica..I still have them but never got inspired to really learn to play

[avlady]

piano for me and i taught beginners for 3 years

[Walking Man]

I play clarinet, and used to play saxophone and flute.

I think it's awesome that you are learning harmonica!