Luke
March 18, 2026, 12:29am
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@JeffSims seems like you’ve already caught on to the principle that playing notes in the underlying chord will always sound great! This is why practicing arpeggios is smart.
Here’s how to practice arpeggios: Practicing Arpeggios for Beginners
Here’s a long post on the subject as it relates to the Blues:
When you’re gonna start improvising over a blues using 2nd position (that’s key of G on a C harmonica) there are a couple of approaches that can help you.
One simple way is to just think about playing the blues scale whenever and wherever you want to. These are the harmonica tabs for the 2nd position blues scale:
Going up: -2 -3’ 4 -4’ -4 -5 6
Coming back down: 6 -5 -4 -4’ 4 -3’ -2
And you can continue even further down -2’’ -1 -1’ 1
And back up to where you started -1’ -1 -2’’ -2
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