Dave Gage is the founder and author of HarmonicaLessons.com. He's made his living playing and teaching diatonic and chromatic harmonica for over 30 years.
Contact Dave here to receive information on private/group harmonica lessons in the Los Angeles area. For complete online harmonica instruction, click here to visit HarmonicaLessons.com for 45+ Hours of Video Lessons and attend up to 12 Live, Online Harmonica Classes each month..
Here are Dave Gage's sons, Brody and Alex, now called the Brothers Gage, back when they were 10 and 12 year old kids. This video shot in 2015, is an unedited take playing an improvised blues and country based jam and having a bunch of fun.
One plays rhythm beatbox harmonica while the other takes a solo. They are both playing a standard key of "C" 10-hole diatonic in 2nd Position (which is also known as "Crossharp"). They both learned to play harmonica around age 5 and now also sing, play guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards. The key to getting good is consistency. They still practice every single day.
Dave explains the value of not just learning a scale up and down, but dividing it into smaller "bite-size" chunks, which can then be used as blues riffs.
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Harmonica Tip of the Day
March 26, 2025
"Angled airflow is why so many beginners cannot get a good sound out of the hole 2 draw (and 3, 7, 8, and 9 draw). If there is any angle to your airflow (the airflow should be parallel to the hole and reed), then you will be unintentionally bending, or flatting, every note you play just enough to create a 'sour' sound. Some of the high draw or blow notes like holes 7, 8, and 9, may not come out at all. This leads many beginners to the conclusion that they have a bad harmonica."
