Song I’m listening to while writing this: I Wanna Know Girls by Portastatic
(I realized that when I had my massive blogpost purge at the beginning of the year, I deleted everything that talked about my life, so now my interests, passions, and life facts are nothing but pure speculation for my avid readers. Oh, the mystery.)
When I had to come back home to Reno after the school semester ended, I was forced to leave almost all of my belongings on the east coast. This included my guitar and ukuleles, and upon having free time for the first time in ages this summer, I was saddened to not have my acoustic pals with me. But while I was cleaning out the room I am staying in over summer, I found a Hohner G harmonica in my piles of stuff, and thought “how funny would it be if I unironically learned how to play the harmonica?”
So i have been trying to commit myself to practicing the harmonica for at least 10 minutes every single day (which turns into hours if I’m not careful), and even bought two more harmonicas to add to the seriousness of my new hobby.
A piece of knowledge. Harmonicas are diatonic, which means they don’t have every note on them like chromatic instruments, which lets harmonicas sound pretty easily but prevents them from playing in multiple keys. Because of that, a full set of harmonicas is twelve, one for each key. Owning three harmonicas is then only 25% shameful.
Throughout my time playing harmonica, I have written down some fun thought’s I’ve had, and I want to share them below:
- I wonder how many Planktons you need to have a full fledged harmonica band.
- How long do I have to play this before my neckbeard reaches peak performance?
- hehe, CAG (for context, the harmonicas I have are in the keys of G, C, and A)
- Okay but if I break my jaw then bending notes will be so much easier.
- Why don’t people utilize the taco tongue to play single notes? Is it because not everyone can roll their tongue? Is it then bad practice for me to do that if not everyone possesses the skill?
- hehe, GAC
- should I brush my teeth before playing today or should I just fill my harps with pupusa particles
- My neighbors must hate me for playing All Star past midnight
- Why do all harmonica tutorials start with them showing off what they can play, like damn I already clicked on your damn video don’t make me click away
- Love Me Do? more like Love me Doodoo
- AGC? ACG? GCA? CGA?
- Damn why do harmonicas just stack like that, who designed these and why is that a feature that I was just supposed to figure out by myself
- why is it called Piano Man and not Harmonica Man, Billy Joel had his priorities wrong
- oh crap I’m in a Zoom meeting and they saw me put my harmonica up to my lips
Harmonically,
Oswaldo.
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