Hi Liam Ward here at LearnTheHarmonica.com. I'm here to teach you hallelujah by
Leonard Cohen it's a really good one for this on harmonica I'm on a C harmonica
and if you're a beginner there's no bends there's nothing
complicated about this you've just going to play single notes if you're not a
beginner you can add some little flourishes and nice little textures into
this to make it a little bit more interesting let's get straight on with
the tab so I've got the tab lining up with the words
so hopefully you get sent to the rhythm from that we're going to go through it
line by line so the first line we've got I heard there was a secret chord I'm
sure to play a bit better than that so we're starting on five below we've got
five blow and then six blow four times and then six draw three times so five
five five six six six six six draw six draw six strong okay so one two three
four cool and then the next line that David played and it pleased the Lord
this is an example of where the melody is basically the same but because of the
different syllables or words that with singing you've got a different number of
those notes so it we've just got five blow six blow and then six draw again
but we've got different amounts of those so it goes five blow six blow six flow
six blow six blow six blow and then six draw six draw six draw
so that David played is simple enough five six six six now and it is is a bit
quicker okay and it pleased the Lord Dada Dada da blow blow draw draw draw
okay that makes some sort of sense so I'll play it again nice and slow the
David played and it freed the Lord please the Lord in free the Lord so let
me try those first two lines together now so from the top and I count as in on
four one two three four okay nice so if you're a beginner just think about
playing those notes as cleanly as possible if you're getting you need to
think about your mouth shape look at one of my lessons on single notes if you're
more an intermediate player maybe think about some vibrato on that draw six
especially so that kind of thing and maybe about swelling the notes sometimes
I'll use a kind of bell curve in terms of volume I'll get a bit louder and then
a bit quieter so mmm bell curve okay just something to think about so that's
the first two lines and then I love this line but you don't really care for music
do you and it sounds like this
so we're still around hold five and six it doesn't move much at this point it
goes up a bit higher later on to seven and eight of the gate of the highest but
we've got six blow six draw six draw six draw six draw six draw six blow six blow
five blow six five six five okay so it's all around hole six one note is a hole 5
so it's all about getting the order right obviously in the timing of it but
you don't really care for music do you I kind of think spatially like that
forward is blows backwards draws and then left to right as our em in a hole 1
to hole 10 so that's why I'm waving my hand around it strangely so let me try
that line I'll count us in on 4 1 2 3 4
and again 1 2 3 4
again you might want to try a bit of vibrato or tremolo perhaps on the six
below if you're an intermediate player beginners just keep thinking - trying to
get those as clean as possible it's such a lovely melody you need to get these
clean you don't want to be playing I mean it really would ruin it you want to
get it really nice and smooth this okay then we've got it goes like this the
fourth or fifth except in tune hopefully I sound something like this and this is
where we start to move up the harmonic a really nice part of the melody this
really lovely chord changes behind us so five blow six blow six blow six blow six
blow six draw six draw 7 draw by the way if you are on a sea harmonica you should
be able to play with along with the original belief it would be in the right
key for that which is great so it goes like this the fourth fifth would sound
like this really dramatic this point I love this so let's try that together on
four one two three four
really really nice okay let's try those first four lines struggling to speak I
think I need to go to sleep first four lines so we're going to go from the top
count as on four one two three four
okay great and then we've got the minor fall the major lift so up to hold eight
now so we've got six blow seven blow seven by seven below seven below seven
blow seven below eight draw there's lots of repeated notes in this too so again
got to make sure the rhythm is there to articulate those and make it sound as a
song should so the minor fall the major lift
six seven seven seven seven seven seven eight draw so let's try that on four one
two three four great now we've got one more line and then we've got their
Hallelujah Chorus so we're going to do the baffled King composing hallelujah
okay I'll play it first so we've got seven blow eight draw eight draw eight
draw eight draw eight blow eight blow eight blow eight draw eight draw seven
blow okay I'll play that again
duder Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada point my things our own way ignore that hand okay
let's try that on for just that last line one two three four a shame we can't
bend whole eight really because it would be nice to go hello yeah bend that note
down but unfortunately we can just doesn't happen and let's go from the top
up to that line okay and then we're going to do that hallelujah bit so we'll
go from the top on four one two three four
now if you're a beginner you might have noticed that I'm doing something that
you may be not quite getting which is articulating the notes I'm not always
doing separate breaths for multiple notes so take the minor fall the major
lift there's loads of seven blows in a row
I'm not going different breaths I'm just going Dada Dada kind of one breath but
articulating it either la order just something to bear in mind if you're not
familiar that okay on to the chorus if you like order the end of the
progression hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah so that's to you
the first line so we've got two hallelujahs
so we go five blow six blow six draw six draw for the first one five six draw
draw and then we're actually just going backwards we're not it's not the same
collection of notes backwards because we're doing one six draw but we're going
back down the same their combination of notes if you like so we've got six draw
six blow five blow five blow so we're finishing in a double five blow you're
slightly finished with a double six draw four so you put those two together I'll
come in on three one two three and again because it's an atmospheric song you
might want to try and put a little bit of a brighter or tremolo on the end
notes of each of those hallelujah so the six draw and then the five below let's
go again on three one two three
and then the last line almost there is the same for the first half five blow
6x6 draw six draw and then this last bit we are going down the same sort of dose
but we keep going down further to finish on four below okay so it sounds like
this
so we've got six draw six blow five blow five draw five blow and then four draw
four blow for blow so just play that again for you halleloo okay so you're
able to finish the word don't like it I'll sing a new thinking in the notes so
let's just try that last hallelujah and on three one two three cool great so
let's try now the Hallelujah Chorus bit and then we're going to play the whole
thing in full so we're going to go from the first hallelujah we're in on three
one two three
okay nice let's go from the top we're going to play the thing in full if you
haven't got it just yet keep rewinding this isn't meant you're not going to get
this straight away it will take you some time to get these lines but if you're
ready we're going to try playing it in full from the top so we're going to be
in on four one two three four
and there you have it you've made your way through hallelujah such a such a
lovely tune to play on the harmonica please practice your single notes as
cleanly as you can or if you're beyond that maybe some vibrato I did a little
there rip glissando up there when I was playing it then as well of you wondering
why that was just kind of sliding up so I hope you've enjoyed learning this with
me today I certainly enjoy playing it with you I'm going to be back very soon
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Cheers