After weeks of practicing how to read tabs, play different notes, and play simple songs like “Alouette” and “Happy Birthday,” it was time to fulfill my true calling: learning to play songs I love on the harmonica. It was hard work choosing one to start with, with my loved songs ranging from “Piano Man,” to “Mary Jane’s Last Dance.” In the end, after heavy debate, I settled on “The House of the Rising Sun.”
This song is much more complex than the previous ones I’ve played. It’s longer (about 5 stanzas, only 2 are pictured below), faster, and has a wide range of notes. It gets high and it gets low and it’s hard to make a harmonica screech sound good when it’s at 150dB and the highest pitch you can think of.
But still… I persist. I love this song, and by my next entry, I will have perfected it. On gang.
