This week on my musical journey of learning the harmonica, I decided to take my harmonica on a bit of a road trip. Now that I’m comfortable with the tabs and notes of the harmonica, and even capable of playing songs like “Alouette” by memory, I decided to familiarize OTHER people with my beautiful harmonica skills. On Wednesday, I brought my harmonica with me to work and serenaded my boss with several renditions of “Alouette.” He said it was “pretty good the second time I played it…” probably just to get me to stop and continue doing my job.
The next day I went to a meeting for the Education Student Association (on which I am an executive) and at the end of our meeting, I pulled out my harmonica to the sound of my fellow chair members’ gasps of horror… but to everyone’s delight I played them a wonderful song. (It was just “Alouette” again…)
Playing the harmonica for other people has been a lot of fun and it has definitely been a top contributing factor to my overall harmonica skills. I’ve played it so much for other people this week, that now even I am tired of hearing it. Next week, I plan on diversifying my repertoire and learning how to play some new songs.