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https://www.tomlinharmonicaschool.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@TomlinHarmonica
Other good resources are Adam Gussow's youtube channel (Tomlin used this to supplement his teaching before creating his own content).
There's a good "introduction to blues harmonica" course on Truefire too.
The things I found most useful were getting the hang of the second position blues scale and then improvising over jamtracks on youtube in whatever key I was playing in.
I've not played harmonica in a while- it's quite loud and I live in a flat & have young kids, but the portability of the instrument is great & I love the sound it makes when played well.
It all started when I was playing guitar in a band called the Jukes in the late 80s with a frontman/Harmonica Player called Pete Hogman: he was a member of the beat group Jimmy Powell & the Five Dimensions in the 60s and recorded with Chuck Berry on the "In London" session 1965. His biggest claim to fame was that he was the harmonica player on Millie's hit My Boy Lollipop in 1964, though for many years it was thought to be rock star Rod Stewart, who was also briefly with Jimmy Powell.
Anyway, Pete was a master of Chicago 'electric' harmonica with a Green Bullet mic and an early Mesa Boogie combo for amplification. And playing behind him I listened hard ... then after I left the Jukes and moved to London I literally bought a half dozen of the important key harmonicas and with a couple of weeks woodshedding, started sitting in with local bands and at jam sessions. That is the way to learn, playing with other musicians.
Biggest tip ... know when to shut up and not overplay: rhythm harmonica is not really a thing!
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On guitar ... when he was off with the Pretty Things I often took over.
Jill was such a sweetie ... and all of us who worked with Hoggie were a bit in love with her. Yep, Hoggie left us in 2017 after long battles with a dodgy ticker ... Pete taught me how to be a professional musician ,,, simple as that.
John 'Pete' Hogman in his younger days
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