Playing harmonica is not only a matter of blowing and drawing. Playing typical harmonica-sounds are done with syllables. Syllables are words, like ‘dadadada-dadadada’ or ‘diddle-diddle-diddle’. With syllables you change the sound of the harmonica and create very nice effects. There are numerous usable syllables, but you can also come up with some words of your own.
The sound of a train is a very nice example: use the syllable ticce-tacce (ticca for drawing and tacce for blowing). Say ticce-tacce and a rolling train will come up when you speed up. But speeding up is easier said than done... You have to train the muscles in your tongue and mouth, because most likely you’re not used to do this kind of movements all the time. Why should you? It’s not like talking or singing, it’s a different kind of movement. So you have to build up strenght and with strenght comes speed. Remember this: you only can play fast if you do your exercises in a slow way. So start with saying ticce-tacce five times in groups of four (so you have rests between the groups):
- ticce-tacce*ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce*rest
- ticce-tacce*ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce*rest
- ticce-tacce*ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce*rest
- ticce-tacce*ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce* ticce-tacce*rest
You can extend this exercise when you notice progress. Make the rows longer of try to skip the breaks. Just speed up a little, because speeding up to much will cause your words to stumble.
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