How to Read Harmonica Tabs | Free Guide to Harp Tabs | Harmonica Tabs Explained

May 18, 20211 min read

Updated: Mar 11

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Hello! This is a quick guide to help you to read and use harmonica tabs that you'll find with loads of harmonica lessons.

At LearnTheHarmonica.com , we use the most popular harp tabs system for basic blow and draw, plus some extra symbols for other techniques to help you understand what is being played in better detail.

How to Read Harmonica Tabs:

Here is a quick guide to the harmonica tabs system used for lessons and tabs at LearnTheHarmonica.com:

A key to help people read harmonica tabs

The easiest and most important thing to remember is that positive numbers are blow (exhale) notes, and negative/minus numbers are draw (inhale notes). After that, various symbols are used to designate bending, overblowing and various tongue textures. The above picture shows all of the symbols you'll see in our harp tabs.

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