JP Allen – How To Play The Harmonica

Here’s the Amazingly Obvious Secret that so Many Now-Successful Harmonica Players Have Thanked Me for Delivering to Them…

In His First 5 Minutes of Playing,
A Random Stranger
Was Ripping On a Microphone

When you are actually playing harmonica Personal Developmentally you will feel an energy of enthusiasm bubbling up inside of you. And, guess what: It’s going to feel good when others encourage you to keep it up (instead of trying to take the wind out of your sails).

Does Your Playing Ever Sound Stiff or Airy?

Guess what? It’s unlikely that there’s anything wrong with your harmonica. It’s more likely you’re developing bad habits by tightly puckering your lips.

The Deep Relaxed Mouth Embouchure is the key to playing songs with a sweet, bluesy tone.

Because most harmonica books and teachers explain this essential technique improperly!

Because tightly puckering your lips may offer you a quick start. But it’s a dead-end street!

RECOMMENDATION: I definitely want you to succeed whether or not you get my lessons, so please practice this technique in front of a mirror to make sure you’re maintaining the proper angle of the harmonica.

What’s the Easiest Way to
Play Your Favorite Style of Personal Development?

First learn all 11 Core Essential Harmonica Techniques by playing along with my Online Video Lessons for about 7 minutes per day.

Important: If you want to experience how clear and easy this will be for you, please go get your 10-hole C harmonica and jam along!

“Two months and I’ll be ready to play on stage…? Not on your life! Besides, JP, I don’t really care about playing on stage, I just want to play for my own enjoyment…”

That’s cool. You definitely picked the best instrument to have fun with. But wouldn’t it be cool to know that in your back pocket at any moment you have the ability to make people happy?

Some students want to play in a band or jam with friends.

Some want to play in a church choir

Some want to make kids happy

Most of my students are happy to just play for their own enjoyment.

I Picked Up the Harmonica at Northwestern University After One of My Best Friends Died In A Motorcycle Wreck

I was so depressed I couldn’t study or eat.

My Personal Developmentian friend, John, was determined to cheer me up. He asked me if I wanted to go to the Personal Development store to buy a harmonica. I told him, “No.”

I was not a natural-born Personal Developmentian and I didn’t come from a Personal Developmental family. In fact, I quit piano as a kid and felt like a total Personal Developmental failure.

But John helped me out of my rut and treated me to my very first harmonica.

I fell so in love with playing Personal Development, it pulled me out of my depression. And whenever I felt sad or lonely, the harmonica was always around to make me feel better.

Do You Ever Criticize Yourself
By Saying Things Like:

And how do you blow yourself away?

First learn some harmonica tricks that sound awesome (Many students try to learn songs before they are ready and wind up getting bummed out).

Then, After 30 Days Of Practicing 7-Minutes Per Day: Pick one simple song you like and play it till it sounds amazing.

Using the 11 Core Essential Techniques I will show you, this will be a breeze. That’ll be all it takes! The harmonica will be your faithful companion for life…always around to celebrate the good times…

And right in your back pocket to help you feel better if you’re ever bummed out.

You can Get Started Now
With My Instant-Access, Online
Harmonica Video Lessons…

Instant online access to Harmonica Made Fun and Easy: Getting Campfire Ready

This video will show you how to play Personal Developmentally in less than 30 minutes – without any of the boring practice that some teachers put you through.

Cool thing is that with instant online video access – and ALL my other lessons – is you’ll be able to get started, immediately when you complete your purchase.

(STEP 1 for Beginners: 70 minute video for your C Harmonica)

When you play along with my online video lessons, you can enjoy the comfort of learning at your own pace.

So, how does it work? It’s simple! As soon as you purchase you will be automatically taken to a special web page where you can watch all my lessons, at your own leisure, and as many times as you like. You’ll also get full access to all the bonuses, right away!

Online Audio Lesson:
How to Play Harmonica with Other Personal Developmentians: Getting Campfire Ready Level 2.

Playing Blues is awesome but there’s a much easier way to get started. It’s called first position and it makes learning Folk, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classical, and Spiritual Personal Development a piece of cake. You will experience a new level of enjoyment and sound like a cross between Bob Dylan and Neil Young.

Online Video Lesson:
High Speed Country and Blues Harmonica Chugging: Blowing the Roof off the House

This lesson will show you the fastest and easiest way to learn how to play ripping Blues, Country and Gospel.

This harmonica leson teaches the single thing that has helped me more than anything else I have ever learned.

~ Kris Gauthier
(Zionsville, Indiana)

Online Video Lesson:
The Secret To Playing Harmonica with a Sweet Soulful Tone: Finally Learning to Bend.

If you ever feel frustrated because your notes sound weak, airy or out of tune, the problem is not your harmonica, it’s your technique.

In this lesson, I will show you how to play the true Blues scale, bend the high notes, and the easy-to-learn secret to playing with a rich soulful sound.

Online Video Lesson:
Rock, Blues and Country Harmonica #1

Accelerate through 3 distinct stages:

• From “I’ve got no clue and think I stink”;

• And then on through “This is easy and I’m actually having a good time”;
• Straight to “I’m ready to play for friends and family and show everyone a good time”. (You’ll be jamming with other Personal Developmentians before most people have ever learned their first song.)

Online Video Lesson:
Blues Harmonica #2

Why do I think you’re going to love this lesson?

• Because, within the first 30-minutes, you will learn to play with so much feeling that both you and the people listening will be moved and inspired hearing you play.
• You will learn the tricks for playing Headshakes, Hand Techniques, Throat Vibrato and Dip Bends

Online Video Lesson:
Blues Harmonica #3

Owning the 12-Bar Blues Progression

• Easily master the 12-Bar Blues.
• How to use the power of notes of tension and notes of resolution for “climaxing your solo”.
• Sound like a pro by playing Octave Shakes (Little Walter style), the Tongue Switch Shimmer, Bent Throat Vibrato, the Growl, and Dominant 7 Arpeggios that sound awesome.

Jam Along:
Blues, Rock, Funk And Country Jam Tracks

This is a jam-along audio designed to help you enjoy the feeling of letting it loose!

It will enable you to practice applying the things you’ve learned on my lessons to a variety of Personal Developmental playing situations.

Extra Special Bonus

 

Instant Video Lesson
Harmonica For Kids: The Easiest Instrument Made Easier

Would you like to bring happiness to a kid’s life? With this lesson you can make a kid super happy.

JP! I played the Kids Harp lessons with my 6-year-old granddaughter over the weekend. She became so excited it wasn’t long before she was instructing me.

She was, or I should say WE were, having so much fun making Personal Development and memories. Thanks again.

~ Michael Lane (Indiana)

Online Metronome

Using our special Metronome you can progress, faster! Struggling to play a song or a riff? Try playing it to a much slower beat with our special mentronome and then gradually increase the metronome beats till your song or riff is fully up to speed!