Whiter Shade of Pale

[david9]

I am appearing in a Ukulele Festival next year and as it is the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love a good song for us to perform would be A Whiter Shade of Pale. I Intro and solo part only. I have been learning the harp a year but having trouble with the breathing. Will continual practice help with this?

[davidkachalon]

Yes. Breathing is something that most people do without premeditation. When we play Harmonica, we have to control our breathing and not let our breathing control us. This is very. is important. When I speak about premeditation, I’m talking about using ranges of our breath that may feel uncomfortable at first. These are the places that experienced Harmonica players go to without most people knowing it. My teacher calls it backwards, Breathing or Blues breath control. Hope this helps.

[Luke]

@david9 welcome to the forum! This video might help:

Practice THIS Daily (5 minutes)

You also might wanna consider scheduling a lesson with @davidkachalon he can definitely help ya out!! Or if you ask him more specific question, happy to help you on the form too. Rock on!

[Luke]

Ah and This!

Breathing Exercises

A student asked me somewhere recently about breathing exercises away from the harp, and I’ve been reviewing Filisko’s Breathing Guide for the umpeenth time and it’s funny how things can strike us differently based on our experience. This document is SO RICH and can be round here (I recommend downloading all the pdf’s and reading them from time to time, but Filisko’s Breathing Guide can be downloaded at the bottom right labeled BREATHING WHILE PLAYING THE HARMONICA:) #1 and #2 here are great e…