If you're on the hunt for high quality harmonica tabs, you've come to the right place! 

   ModernBluesHarmonica.com is the leading blues harmonica website in the world--or so Google insists.  The

original tabs that I've created are a major reason for that success.

   Because of the work that I put into my blues harp tabs, and because of the precise rhythmic notations that

EVERY tab offers you, I don't give my tabs away.  I charge $2 (and occasionally $1) per tab.

   You can find lots of free tabs on the web, simply by searching the phrases "free harmonica tabs" and

"free harp tabs."  I urge you to make this search, and to check out those tabs! 

   But I also urge you to check out the FREE TAB that I offer for the first chorus of Junior Wells's famous solo on

"Messin' With the Kid."  Please compare my work with the original recording and with any other available tab  of

this song, if you can find one.      

Messin-With-the-Kid.Gussow.sample.pdf

Messin_with_the_Kid_sample.mp3

   I think you'll find that my tabs open up a whole world of precision-engineered material that you can find

nowhere else on the web.  (In order to fully appreciate the precision of the "Messin' With the Kid" tab, you may

need to slow down the track using an Amazing SlowDowner.  Capturing Junior's rapid-fire magic with arrows and

numbers was a challenge, to put it mildly!  If you'd like to know more about my approach to tabbing,  please scroll

to the bottom of this page and read "a word about my tabs".)

   My offerings are listed below.

   (If you'd like to know who I am, BTW, just hit THIS LINK and you'll be taken to my bio page.)

  If you'd like a complete list of my tabs AND instructional videos, organized as a searchable, hyperlinked Excel

spreadsheet that grades the tabs by skill level and tells you what harp key to play each song in, you can download

that by hitting this link: 

MBH.COMPLETE-VIDEO-AND-TABS-LIST.xls

   A word about my tabs:  Many years ago, when I got my first harmonica teaching gig at the Guitar Study Center in

New York, I purchased a few of the commercially available instruction books.  Most of them used standard harp

tablature--numbered arrows pointing up and down--but none of them indicated, with even minimal precision, the

duration of each note, not to mention the rhythmic emphases (syncopation or "swing") that made for real blues.  A

few of them offered this information in the form of actual musical notation instead of tablature, but like most harp

players, I didn't read music.  So I developed my own form of tablature from the ground up. 

    My tabs give you numbers and arrows to indicate which hole you play and whether it's draw or blow, like

standard harp tabs, but they also give you a precise rhythmic count underneath the arrows.  As you'll see if you

order one of my videos, I'm a stickler about counting time.  If you can't count your way through a tab, you can't play

the song with the precision and intensity it deserves.  Modern Blues Harmonica is NOT about mush-mouth harp. 

No matter what level you are, I believe in treating you like a serious musician.  Counting time accurately is part of

what it means to be a musician.  My tabs are specifically designed to ground you in rhythmic fundamentals.  Most

of them are hand-drawn, but please don't confuse this handmade aspect with carelessness, backwardness, or lack

of precision.   I take great pride in my work.  You can find a few other accurate, precision-engineered harp

transcriptions on the web--Glenn Weiser and David Barrett are both excellent, and Joe Filisko does masterful

work--but I believe that my tabs offer a combination of accuracy, accessibility, and an attention to syncopation that

makes them unique.

ADAM GUSSOW is an official endorser for HOHNER HARMONICAS

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