In the video lesson below, I’m going to teach you “Heart of Gold” a C harmonica because C is the best key harmonica for beginners to start with, and many beginner harmonica players don’t own a G harmonica. The melodies and rhythms that Neil Young plays here are more evocative and exciting than anything Bob Dylayn ever played on harmonica, for example, in my humble opinion. The original Heart of Gold recording is in the key of G, played by Neil Young on a 10-hole diatonic harmonica in the key of G in 1st position, and in my opinion, this is some high quality folk style harmonica playing. Not only will this lesson give you the ability to play along with the Heart of Gold recording, a jam track, or best of all with other musicians who are playing it, it will also give you a great framework for being able to make up your own folk-style 1st position harmonica solos on many other songs you may want to play, cos you’ll really be able to put your heart into it. I have no doubt you will love learning and playing this song in no time at all.Why Every Harmonica Player Should Learn Heart of Gold This video recording is sure to get you hooked on the greatness of Neil. It’s amazing how he sounds just like the recorded version without any electronics. The sound of this recording is incredible. Neil was well into his mastery of songwriting, storytelling and performing.
The video was recorded live at Massey Hall in 1971. I can’t get enough of this video with Neil Young’s Old Man performance. The live video of Neil below will help you see how to play it. Then you’ll continue that 3-chord progression throughout the chorus (adding a quick G chord at the end). The chord break between each verse and chorus has three chords D Am7 & Em7. From there, its these basic open chords D F C & G chords. You can see the the chord shape above in this post. Neil uses a great opening chord for the intro riff which is basically the open D chord shape moved up to the 5th fret. The song Old Man by Neil Young is written in the key of D Major.
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