If you take away the harmonica and you look utterly ridiculous, you're doing it right. It may be helpful to think of your lips as being over or around the harmonica, rather than just on it. Experiment until you can get a single, clear note. Now push your lips outward, almost as if you were trying to kiss someone. If you exhale or inhale, you will hear multiple notes. There are two main methods: Pucker method: To play like this, start with your lips relaxed. You look at the chart on the previous step, say, "That seems easy enough," blow into your harmonica, and three notes come out. The diagram above should make things much clearer.Īnd now comes a problem that many beginning harmonica players encounter. In holes 7-9, the pattern mentioned above is changed so inhaling moves the note down instead of up. The three main oddities are holes 2, 7, and 10. As you can see, there isn't a set pattern to the blows and draws of a harmonica. At this point you can probably guess what come next if you blow into hole 7: a B, right? Wrong! If you blow into hole 7, you will hear a C. Blowing into hole 6 produces a G, and inhaling makes an A. If you blow into hole 4 on a C harmonica, you'll hear a C. That's why playing the harmonica involves a combination of inhaling and exhaling (also called blowing and drawing). Alone, this won't do you much good, as it's only one chord. If you were to blow into the holes of a harmonica, one by one from left to right, you would hear the 1, 3, and 5 notes of a major chord (C, E, G in the key of C) repeated repeated three times (as well as one high C at the end). Bottom Line: Start with a diatonic harmonica, preferably in the key of C (as this is the easiest key to understand). Special tunings: Some harmonicas come with different scales like minor scales and scales made for playing in more than one key. On an octave harmonica, the notes are tuned an octave (8 notes) apart, creating a fuller sound. On a tremolo, the notes are tuned slightly apart, but almost the same, creating a cool "tremolo" vibrating effect. Tremolo and Octave Harmonicas: These harmonicas have a double row of holes. Although they offer more versatility, they are often harder to play, especially if you are trying to bend. This allows you to play every note in the musical scale, a chromatic scale. When you press this button, whatever note you are playing moves up a half step. Additional notes can be played by "bending" (explained later) and different scales can be obtained by playing in different positions (explained later). It is built to play a major, diatonic scale. Now you can stand the card up…and the bunny rabbit should stand up above the card and look pretty cool.Diatonic: This is the most common, simplest type of harmonica. Cut out the part of the bunny rabbit that is above the half line. Most of the directions still apply….such as folding the card in half. Below are 2 different Easter cards that you can print out. If you would prefer to print out Easter Cards, and color them in? It isn’t necessary, but this will work out if you can print this card out on card stock….otherwise, just print it out on paper.
OR if you want to learn how to draw bunny rabbits by yourself – here are many bunny rabbit drawing tutorials. OR, you can try to draw or trace these bunnies onto a piece of paper. This would work best on card stock, but can be completed on construction paper or any other type of paper.īelow are some Bunny Rabbits to either print out, trace, or attempt to draw to put on your card.Ībove are some bunny rabbit images that you can print out, cut out, color in, and then paste on to your Easter card. There are also bunny rabbits below for you to trace, print and cut out, or try to draw. These directions give measurements for you to make this pop-up card. You have 2 options…either print out the Easter pop-up card already drawn out (at the bottom of this page) OR read the directions that are directly below. How to Make Pop Up Easter Bunny Rabbit Cards Crafts Idea and Coloring Printable Either way, this is a fun, and attractive Easter craft to work through. You have the choice of printing out the cards or you can follow the measurements and directions below without printing. Easter is coming up and I have an Easter Bunny Pop Up Card craft for kids, teens, or adults to try.