Harmonica and Guitar Tabs and Resources

This web site contains my collection of tab sheets and resources for harmonica and guitar. I do this for fun, to improve my own knowledge, and as a service to other amateur musicans interested in these styles of music. You may not sell or otherwise profit from these tabs, but otherwise are free to distribute them in their original form as copies or as computer files. If you have comments or questions, please email me at snyder@bu.edu. All tabs are in pdf format.

First, here are some fun ring tones for your iPhone:

• Whammer Jammer Ring Tone
• Juke Ring Tone

These are files with the extension .m4r and if you download them and then double-click on them, iTunes should add them to your ringtone library and then you can drag them to your iPhone ringtone library the next time you synch it. Enjoy!

Next, here are some PDFs of useful blank tablature and music sheets:

• Twelve-bar Harp Tab Sheet
• Sixteen-bar Harp Tab Sheet
• Twelve-bar Harp Tab & Standard Music Notation Sheet
• Standard Music Notation Sheet

Harmonica Tabs

Harmonica Resources

In this section I collect together online resources, including web pages and academic research on subjects related to the diatonic harmonica, again, for my own interest and for others.

Useful Web Sites

Harmonica Masterclass Artist Listing: This is a wonderful resource, a long list of harp tunes with keys and harps used, appears to be very accurate!

Throat Vibrato: Best short explanation of TV I have read; also take a look at Adam's advice in Lesson 004.

Overblow.com: Best source for all things overblown.

You Missed Monday: Web page devoted to notes and tabs from Joe Filisko's Monday night classes, contains summaries of discussions and tab sheets

Scientific Papers

Acoustical and physical dynamics of the diatonic harmonica, by Bahnson, Antaki, and Beery

Variation of frequency with blowing pressure for an air-driven free reed, by Cottingham, Reed, and Busha

Pitch Control in Harmonica Playing, by Johnson

Theoretical and experimental investigation of the air-driven free reed, by Cottingham

The motion of air-driven free reeds, by Cottingham, Lilly, and Reed

Guitar Tabs

These are tabs created by Guitar Pro and then put in PDF format; I can provide you with the gp5 files if you want them. These are most fingerstyle guitar, with a few flatpicking bluegrass and miscellaneous other styles mixed in.