Learn Harmonica Tabs, Bending & Lessons for Beginners

Harmonica Studio grades every note you play on-device — no ads, no account, and audio never leaves your iPhone.

Holes, blows, draws, and bends — finally notated clearly.

Your playing never leaves your device: listening, transcription, and grading run on-device. No account, no ads, no trackers.

The harmonica is dirt-cheap and everywhere, but its tab is a mess. Soloist notates hole, blow, draw, and bend clearly, filters to the Richter scale you actually own, and grades what you play.

Blow / draw / bend notation

Tab that shows exactly which hole and which technique.

Richter-tuned subsets

Filters songs to the notes your diatonic harp can actually hit.

Honest mic grading

Per-note feedback so bends land in tune.

How honest grading works

Listen.
Play your take and Harmonica Studio captures it through the microphone, processing everything on your device. Audio is never uploaded — our backend has no audio endpoints at all.
Measure.
The engine locates each note you played — its pitch, its timing, its onset — and compares it against the score, note by note.
Report.
You see which notes rang true, which didn't, and what to loop next — drills built from your actual rough spots. An unclear take is left ungraded, never turned into a confident mistake.

Real screens. Real practice.

Inside Harmonica Studio, screen by screen.

The Harmonica Studio Bend Trainer coaching a half-step draw bend on hole 1 — The Bend Trainer — hear the bend land

Harmonica tab for Mary Had a Little Lamb with blow and draw numbers and a how-to-read key — Tab that says which hole, which breath

The Harp Map of every reachable note on a C diatonic harmonica, including bends and overblows — Every note your harp can reach, mapped

Free charts, guides & references

The reference material behind the lessons, published free — interactive on this site, printable for the music stand.

Songs & free notation

68 public-domain and original works with full, readable notation — read them free here, then let Harmonica Studio grade your take note by note.

Questions

Diatonic or chromatic?

Built around the standard Richter diatonic harp, with subset filtering so songs fit your harp.

Does it teach bends?

Yes — bends are notated and graded by pitch.

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