Level 1 · Breath & single notes

holding, blow/draw, clean single notes, the C major scale

A relaxed breath and a clean single note are the whole foundation; the natural C scale comes straight from the blow/draw pattern.

What you learn

• Hold the harmonica with low notes (hole 1) to the left; relax the lips over the holes (Smith: ‘position of lips and tongue’).
• Blow and draw — notes are made ‘by blowing out and inhaling the breath through the reeds’ (Ryan’s).
• Produce a clean single note by puckering the lips to one hole.
• Play the C major scale with the slide IN (blow/draw across holes 1–4: blow DO, draw RE …).
• Simple melodies on the natural scale.

Grounded in: Ryan’s True Harmonica Instructor — for rudiments of music, blow/draw, the chromatic scale. source

Note: a method-grounded technique curriculum (no score corpus for this instrument); levels are graded skills, not pieces.