Riffs and Songs
I've collected a million of these. As time allows I will add more.
12 bar blues theory and practice for a beginner.
Songs:
Don't Get Around Much Any More. Duke Ellington classic. This is a good practice piece with a few easy bends.
Amazing Grace. Simple slow, but moving tune that everyone likes.
Stormy Weather. Billie Holiday did it best.
Black Rat Swing. Phil Wiggins practice piece. Memorize this. This is a good Chicago style blues and you can fall back on it when inspiration fails. Good to have at the blues jam at 3AM.
Riffs and Scales:
No Bend Beginner's Riffs Good Morning, Juke Riff and Boogie-Woogie Blues.
Triplets and a Quadruplet. Easy idea, but hard to do. If you can bend at all, these are worth the effort because they sound great. (Don't forget to do them all backwards!).
No Bend Simple Turn-Around. You can use this simple turn-around on every blues song.
Blues Scale. The blues scale requires a couple of good bends that must be done fairly accurately. You should practice this scale over and over as it is the basis for all blues riffs.
Mannish Boy and Hoochie-Coochie Man Riffs. One requires a hard 2 hole draw full bend, the other is easy.
Theme from Peter Gunn. The hardest bend excercise I know.
Sonny Boy Riff from "Help Me". This is a semi intracate no bend riff that Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) uses to great effect in "Help Me' and other songs.
Notes on Tablature:
I have made a few small gifs to show which holes on the harp to blow and draw as well as when to bend.
The 1 hole blow looks
like this: 
the arrow points
into the hole which means you blow the note. The number in the circle tells
you which hole.
The 1 hole draw looks
like this: 
The arrow is pointing
down - away from the hole - so you draw (or the crude ones among us suck.)
A bent note is denoted
by a crooked arrow. This is the 1 hole draw bent: 
Some holes have several
levels of bend. The angle of the bent arrow will show how far the bend should
be. Here are the 2 hole bends. First half bent: 
and here is full bent: 
If you have need for the gifs and don't feel like searching through the pages to steal them:
Here is a zip of all the gifs I've made so far.
