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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Harmonica Tab (Blow & Draw)
- Composer
- Wallace Willis
- Year
- 1865
- Key
- C
- Time
- —
- Tempo
- —
- Difficulty
- Easy · ★★
- First note
- blow 6
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot on harmonica
The phrase Harmonica Studio’s lesson teaches — an excerpt of the melody, not the full-length arrangement — rendered as harmonica blow/draw tab you can read on screen or print for the stand, free.
Wallace Willis, c. 1865 (spiritual) — public domain.
How to practise this on harmonica
Every number here is a hole and every arrow a breath: ▲ is a blow (exhale), ▼ is a draw (inhale). Swing Low, Sweet Chariot sits on a C harp and opens on blow 6. Move between holes by rocking your lips smoothly along the comb rather than jumping — the harp rewards small, clean shifts. Get a single note sounding clear (pucker or tongue-block) before you add any speed.
Where a bend is marked, lower the pitch with the back of your tongue and your jaw, not with more air; the app listens for whether the bend actually lands in tune. Play it at a comfortable tempo, breathing from the belly so long draws don't run you out of air, and loop the phrase that graded worst until the breath pattern feels automatic. By the numbers, this study runs 14 notes across holes 4 to 8.
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The same melody is graded across 7 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Swing Low, Sweet Chariot cross-instrument hub.
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