wallyboy
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anyone use harmonica with uke, i am looking for easy start off song, not got a frame yet if i get on ok i will get one,
thanks,
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uke and harmonica
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http://www.ezfolk.com/harp/tabs/amazgrac/amazgrac.html
This one has harmonica in verse 2. http://www.ezfolk.com/uke/tabs1/amaz-ma/amaz-ma.html#.UPcQzx1LPmo
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wallyboy
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thanks phil, one to try, looks easy enough
FiL
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Wallyboy,
You'll find a number of uke-n-harmonica performances on my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/cherkcom.
If you're new to the harmonica, try playing along to songs with just the harmonica to start off. When you get comfortable with that, then try playing it with your uke. To me, it's not much different than singing while playing the uke, and people do that all the time. It really comes down to how well you know your instrument. (And it that area, I'm very much still learning!)
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You'll find a number of uke-n-harmonica performances on my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/cherkcom.
If you're new to the harmonica, try playing along to songs with just the harmonica to start off. When you get comfortable with that, then try playing it with your uke. To me, it's not much different than singing while playing the uke, and people do that all the time. It really comes down to how well you know your instrument. (And it that area, I'm very much still learning!)
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Before I started playing the ukulele, I had a BAD case of Instrument Acquisition Syndrome with the harmonica. I still have 40 harmonicas. I've played the harmonica with the guitar and the piano, but for some reason, I never got into playing it with the uke. The ukulele got me more into singing.
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I also have few you tubes with uke & harmonica, though I haven't done much recently. I echo what Fil says.
My you tube channel is in my sig file.
My you tube channel is in my sig file.
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wallyboy
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cheers fil nice job on thr YT vids, i think you gave the right mix of the harmonica, i think the harmonica go's well with the uke, got to wait until monday before i get the harmonica
funny enough wifey and i are off singing to-night, hopefully might improve my singing LOL
cheers tootler
blue_knight_usa
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Harmonica goes great with uke! Here is 9 Pound Hammer is all about the strum, the chords are simple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVwBgHxHZGY
Cheers!
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nighthunte29
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I have just started jamming out with a friend who has just got into harmonica and we are currently learning Redemption Song, he is chiming in with the lyrics, and I am playing the chords and riff, I'm no harmonica player, but I guess it's pretty simple on his behalf (?), and it definitely is on mine cause the chords and strumming is pretty simple!
Maluhia!
Maluhia!
SailQwest
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My husband started playing ukulele so that we could play music together. I was a harmonica player. It worked out well for us. 
wendellfiddler
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Here's one with hands-free chromatic harmonica, uke and bass harmonica- then there are some other things that happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6C1B4FIeZM
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Yee ha. That is some nice holder for that harmonica.
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wallyboy
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great vid really enjoyed, does sound nice with uke
yes it does seem to compliment the uke,
i hope to be able to play uke and harmonica well to-gether,
there seems so many songs out there to suit both
looked a lot of fun, sounded good
coolkayaker1
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These ladies absolutely tear it up on When The Levee Breaks, particularly the harmonica. That drummer is so Bonham-esque. She's going to tear some skins back there.
This sounds so awesome that it gives me goosepimples.
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Not exactly uke and harmonica. My friend and I started playing together a couple of weeks ago. He's a very accomplished guitar player and took up the harmonica recently after developing nerve damage in his shoulder. He was inspired from my harmonica playing, but I'm doing the uke side. We're working up a song list including "Folsom Prison Blues," "King of the Road," "Apache," "If I Only Had a Brain," "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" and meeting Wednesday to fill it up more.
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Ukuleleblues
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Yeah, I have lots of fun with that. Key of B (on a D tuned uke) using a E harp played cross harp (key of B). This was from 2011. http://youtu.be/i7JRDARgkFE
I have used a Marine Band Harmonica mounted on a neck holder when our Ukulele Group plays Piano Man by Billy Joel, and also Heart of Gold by Neil Young. Both these songs use a C Harmonica played in C ( not cross harp ).
Sorry I don't have any videos of performances.
Regards,
Bill
Sorry I don't have any videos of performances.
Regards,
Bill
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Walden
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It's kind of like the organ, where you have one hand on one keyboard and the other hand on another keyboard. The uke is playing the left hand part while the harmonica is playing the right hand part. It's VERY satisfying to be able to be your own accompanist.
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