Harmonica | Andrew Diehl | Beginning | Period 3 | Week 3 (July 21-26, 2024)
Everything you’ll need to know as a total newcomer to the harmonica. Covering how to play with good tone, getting clean notes using both puckering and tongue-blocking, hand technique, harmonica notation, and breath control.
About the Instructor
Andrew Diehl grew up in the mountains of West Virginia and first attended Augusta’s Blues Week to study harmonica when he was nine. He spent his teens wearing the grooves out of every Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, and Junior Wells record he could find. After moving north to study music at Lake Forest College, he began playing guitar and electric bass. Diehl has taught harmonica and guitar at Maywood Fine Arts, Rock House, Twelve Tone Music, School of Rock, and, since the pandemic, via private lessons on Zoom. He now lives and works as a full-time musician in Chicago, playing with his own band The Nightmen and as a hired-gun sideman with blues bands around the Midwest.