Harmonica with Howard Levy
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Course Structure Harmonica with Howard Levy
Each lesson builds on the last, taking you from zero to hero!
Master harmonica with virtuoso Howard Levy. Over 250 lessons spanning blues, jazz, classical, and world music to unlock techniques like advanced bending, overblows and overdraws.
Basic Harmonica
Explore harmonica basics through tunes, breathing, positions, and foundational techniques. Learn harmonica with songs, scales, tongue blocking, and cross harp blues licks. Build your harmonica skills with classic songs, scale work, and position-based techniques.
Intermediate Harmonica
Explore advanced harmonica skills, styles, and bending techniques across global genres. Learn bending, blues, jazz, and global styles through songs, exercises, and improvisation. Build expressive technique with bends, positions, scales, and diverse musical styles.
Advanced Harmonica
Explore advanced harmonica techniques, overblows, jazz standards, and classical repertoire. Learn overblows, transposition, jazz licks, and expressive playing through classical and modern tunes. Build mastery with advanced bending, overdraws & overblows, jazz harmony, and classical phrasing.
Virtuoso Harmonica
Explore advanced jazz tunes and exercises to build speed, fluency, and expressive soloing. Learn jazz standards and technical drills to deepen improvisation and harmonic mastery. Develop advanced skills through jazz tunes, chromatic scales, and complex progressions.
Blues
Explore bending, overblows, blues forms, and expressive tools for modern harmonica playing. Learn bending, tongue blocking, overblows, and blues improvisation across multiple positions. Develop advanced harmonica control with blues licks, bending, overdraws, and position work.
Jazz
Explore jazz, blues, and global styles through improvisation, overblows, and transposition. Learn expressive jazz and world music on harmonica with advanced bends, licks, and theory. Build mastery with jazz standards, modal improvisation, overblows, and global repertoire.
Indian/Middle Eastern/Eastern European
Explore global modes and rhythms through Eastern melodies, bends, and modal improvisation. Learn Middle Eastern scales, bends, and 7/8 rhythm to expand your musical vocabulary. Discover modal playing and non-Western sounds through bending, scales, time signatures and world melodies.
Folk/Irish/Bluegrass
Learn folk and traditional melodies while exploring positions, scales, and transposing techniques. Explore beloved tunes to develop phrasing, position work, and transposition on harmonica. Build confidence by playing classic folk songs and learning to transpose across keys.
Latin/Brazilian
Explore Latin styles and melodies through bending, montunos, and expressive phrasing. Learn Latin tunes and rhythms while developing bending accuracy and melodic fluency. Develop bending, feel, and rhythmic style through Latin music and 3rd position studies.
Rock/Pop
Explore iconic pop and rock melody styles while refining tone, phrasing, and expression. Learn beloved classics on harmonica to strengthen musicality, bending, and style. Develop expressive skills through well-known songs spanning pop, blues, and rock.
Classical
Explore classical melodies and advanced tongue blocking for expressive harmonica playing. Learn timeless classical pieces while developing phrasing, tone, and tongue block control. Play Bach, Beethoven, and more to refine technique and musical expression on harmonica.
Rhythms of the Breath - Volume 1 -NEW!
Learn foundational drum rudiments to build breath control and coordination, control, and rhythmic confidence. Explore rolls and paradiddles to strengthen timing, technique, and stick control. Build fluency with drum rudiments like single strokes, rolls, and paradiddles step-by-step.
About Harmonica with Howard Levy
Howard Levy has taken his entire knowledge of playing harmonica and poured it into a comprehensive video library that includes hundreds of lessons in a wide variety of genres. Subscribers get unlimited access to all online harmonica lessons, supplemented by backing tracks and other study materials. Plus there's special guests, exclusive interviews, and a community of harmonica enthusiasts from all over the world. What ultimately sets these harmonica lessons apart from other online offerings however, is the ability to submit a video using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange® learning platform. Howard reviews each submission and records a video response where he offers tips and techniques to practice. All students can access Howard's Video Exchange library, which has been expanding since 2009 and may contain the key to unlock your own playing.
About Howard Levy
Howard Levy is a master of harmonica. As the first person to play the diatonic harmonica as a fully chromatic instrument, Howard opened a world of new possibilities for the instrument. After he pioneered "overblowing" and "overbending" techniques, Howard was able to journey outside the realm of traditional harmonica music and explore other genres including Jazz, Classical, Latin and other styles of World Music.As a recording artist, Howard has played on hundreds of albums and several movie soundtracks. Aside from his prolific work as a solo performer, he is a founding member of the group Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, who in 2011 won a Grammy for the song "Life in Eleven", which Howard co-wrote. Howard also plays in the groups Trio Globo, The Howard Levy 4, Acoustic Express; and has recorded collaborations with Anthony Molinaro, Chris Siebold, Rabih Abou Khalil, and many others.Howard has been showing people how to play harmonica since 1972 and teaching harmonica lessons online with ArtistWorks since 2009.
What students are saying!
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I like this kind of learning very much. Howard Levy is a really great teacher. He is a genius harp player and lifted me after 55 years of playing to much higher levels. (I´m also a...
LEARNING FROM A MASTER
I´m finishing the course and I´m very happy. When I see my first videos I can see that I´ve learned quite a lot. Howard hardly never gives you a tablature. You have to play the son...
Howard Levy Harmonica
Just a small number of video exchanges with Howard brought invaluable insights. I'm glad I came back again for more.
Professional teaching level, explaining every tiny detail. Packed with tons of extra material
Well structured with clear explanations. After going through the course you will have to do only one thing to be a good musician: PRACTICE
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He explains the basics of harmonica well.
It is hard to fairly
It is hard to fairly evaluate my experience with the Levy harmonica program. There is no doubt that Howard is a gifted artist but maybe not a gifted teacher. I dropped out after th...
Fantastic !
I played harmonica for35 years by now. And for the last years, I stayed on the same level, without learning new things. But with the course of Howard Levy,it is as if the aeroplane...
Excellent instruction
Howard, provides well structure instruction that is well paced, explained and supported.
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Howard is clearly a nice guy extremely knowledgeable and he seems to enjoy teaching! I am an absolute beginner with the harmonica and I am looking forward to taking classes with hi...
Enjoying the school!!
I am really enjoying the harmonica school with Howard Levy. This is exactly what I was looking for in order to bring my playing up to the next level. Howard is an excellent teacher...
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