What are the 5 steps to success?

We will hold your hand and walk you through, step by step, slowly slowly!

STEP 1. Ready Steady Go... (54321) You will want to understand what your harmonica can do so you can build your higher-level skills on a solid foundation. We teach you how to hold it, how to breathe properly, how to play and use chords, how to play simple blues straight away, how and why playing in rhythm is critical, simple maintenance, care and repair of your harmonica. 'It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing' - start with rhythm!

STEP 2. Game-changing baby steps:

The next step is getting single notes so you can play tunes. We teach you all the 8 ways to get single notes so you can start playing easy tunes immediately.

STEP 3. Playing music with other people - how?

Practising with backing tracks (and enjoying open mic sessions) is a great confidence booster to prepare for playing live with other people. We teach you everything you need to have fun playing music in a live group setting.

STEP 4. Turbocharge your skills:

Next you will want to gain some higher-level skills like note bending, improvising, playing in other keys, playing different styles of music, and playing more interesting tunes. We will hold your hand all the way through!

STEP 5. Finally, you will want to think about performance and musicality. Even if you are 'just’ performing Happy Birthday, or playing at a Jam Session, you will need to know how to become confident, to stand out from the crowd, and not make a complete arse of yourself. You can do it!

An American student asked: 'Wait a minute, are you telling me you are gonna to hold my hand and kick my butt?' I said 'Yessir' he said 'Ok I'm in!'

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at ben@harmonicamastery.com if you wish

or book a call with Ben here

How long do I get access to all this?

Lifetime access (just one lifetime); after the first 90 days the pressure's off and you join the Graduates group where you get monthly tune-learning challenges.

With music, and many other studies, you will never know it all, so we keep learning for life.

Apparently, Leonard Bernstein was asked why he continued practicing the piano 2 hours a day at the age of 93 - he replied "I feel I'm making progress". So we keep going...

Is there a guarantee?

Of course - guaranteed progress in 3 months or your money back!

Provided you can show you have done the work. The Program can not work if you don't put in the time and effort.

If you make no discernible progress within three months of starting we will refund you. It's never happened yet, you will most likely make progress within two weeks.

We are THAT confident about this Program - it works extremely well and getting better all the time.

But if you are not prepared to put some study time into learning with us, don't join. We only work with people who take action, roll their sleeves up, and put some effort into developing their harmonica playing.

This guarantee agreement requires you to show that you have carried out everything as stated here and on the website page, that you have spent at least 45 hours studying harmonica effectively, you have submitted one video to the FB group most days for 90 days, you have attended most of the live sessions and masterclasses, and you've attended and played at most of the open mics.

If you change your mind or give up you are on your own - we offer no refund under those circumstances.

This does not affect your statuary rights. You have by UK law a 14-day cooling-off period if you want to change your mind - provided you do not use any of our services or products including our onboarding service.

If you change your mind and want a refund please write to or email Ben and get a confirmation. We reserve the right to retain reasonable setup expenses in the case of a refund.

Digital products cannot be returned to the shop if they've been used - you can't be 'un-onboarded', 'un-attend' events or 'un-receive coaching'.

Prove this program works...

Yes, take a look at the PROOF page

Are the testimonials real, is this all a genuine setup?

Yes, at the live sessions, you will meet the people who did those testimonials - they exist! Actually, there are 29 real ones and one fake - if you don't spot the fake there's no hope for you!

My address is on all my emails - come round for a beer if you like, or call me on 07973 284366. You can also Google 'Ben Hewlett Harmonica' and see my track record. Don't get muddled up with the male model of the same name. As I strut my stuff on the catwalks of Milan I sometimes wonder why he's got more harmonica students than me.

I'm not confident - how will you support me?

You can't be confident about something you can't do. We will teach you simple things and check to see if you understand them. After that, we will teach you more simple things and check to see if you understand them - that way you can build up your skills and confidence hand in hand with no pressure.

What happens after the 90 days is finished?

You will be invited into a Graduates Private Facebook Group so you can stay in touch with your friends in the HM90 community.

You keep lifetime access to all the pre-recorded training forever
You will get a monthly challenge to learn a new tune or three
You can request to take the program again from the start
You can continue access to the live sessions and mentor new students as well as being able to ask questions and get help
So you still get great value after the 90 days are done, that's just the start of it!

How do we coach/mentor our students?

3 pillars; training, feedback, live zoom sessions (blended learning)

Study with Ben's video courses and tuition books (daily 30 mins?)
Log your daily progress via the practice diary and video diary in our Private FB group to get Support/Mentoring/Feedback/Encouragement
Attend Ben's Group Zoom calls/Buddy Groups (Mon/Wed/Fri 7pm)

***BONUS access to regular Guest Masterclasses and Open Mic Sessions

If you follow the program, and do what you are told, success is inevitable.

Remember, resistance is futile!

Training Videos and Books are all included (lifetime access)

HARMONICA MASTERY TRAINING 90+ hours of video tuition and 20 books

Milestone 1 - Breathing, Chords, Rhythm, and Chugging

HARMONICA BASICS - all you need to get started
How to practice - here's where you build your daily routine and 5-part practice schedule - aim for 1% improvement every day
Train sounds - breathing, chords, and rhythms in a locomotive setting
Get Chugging - breathing, chords, and articulations in musical settings
Get Chugging Book - This is a stand-alone version containing a 'pdf and backing tracks'
Blues level 1 - basic blues chugging using chords in a '12 bar blues' structure/sequence. Ignore the latter part with single notes - come back to it after you've done the 'Five ways to play single notes' course
Cleaning and maintenance - workshop with Kinya Pollard many ways to clean your harmonica
Tone masterclass - 27 ideas to help you work on your tone
Horn Lines for harmonica players. Audio and visual help for learning horn lines featuring Sean The Horn as a guest teacher on sax and harp.
Where can I play my harmonica? It's a joke.
How to play 15 tunes just using chords - this shows you how easy it is to play chordal tunes and to transition towards single note playing - on which more in Milestone 2

Milestone 2 - Single Notes (one note, one hole):

Five ways to play single notes (we keep finding new ways - up to 8 now)
Search for the Single Note
17 Simple Scales
Blues level 2
BLUES JAM FACTORY - BOOK 1
Love me do
FUNKY NURSERY - BOOK
How to hack your harmonica using 'masking tape'
Drum Rudiments for harmonica
Impro from scratch
MASTERMIX - BOOK
Harmonica hooks and hits

Milestone 3 - Bending Notes (lowering the pitch of draw notes to increase your range):

• Note-bending basics - draw bending

• Tunes - learn 11 great tunes

• Basic 12 bar blues

• Sonny Terry - 19 licks

• Dummies - this is a recap of many techniques you have learned in this section

Milestone 4 - Blues focus:

• Blues chromatic (no chrom? We can send you one)

• BLUES JAM FACTORY - BOOK 2

• One harp, 2 tunes, 3 positions

• 101 BLUES RIFFS - BOOK

• Blues 12 bar bassline

• BONES OF THE BLUES - BOOK

• Bones of the Blues - the movie

• Fresh simple blues

• Blues licks 101 new riffs

• Sugar Mama - Sonnyboy 1 (John Lee)

• Spokey Dokey

• Fox Chase - Deford Bailey, Henry Witter

• Tramp groove

• Easy - Big Walter

• Trouble in Mind - Sonny Terry

• All my love in vain - Sonnyboy 2 (Rice Miller)

• My Babe - Little Walter

• Whammer Jammer

• Learning Lost John

Milestone 5 - General techniques:

• All the basic techniques again - a quick refresh to roar through - The original title is '30 day challenge', but for you, this is just a recap to see if you missed anything -you might pick up something new

• One harp, 2 tunes, 3 positions

• Note-bending advanced - blow bending, overblow and overdraw

• Tongue-blocking, splits, octaves, flutters, warbles

• Minor tune, major harmonica

• Just play

• Seven showstopping tricks

• Turbocharge your harmonica

• Twenty awesomely different ways to play tunes

• Seven tips on improvising

• Nine smart ways to play with a band

• Music workout

• Seven amazing new skills to learn

• 1st position

• 2nd position

• 3rd position

• Learn Harmonica Part 1 - BOOK

• Learn Harmonica Part 2 - BOOK

• Learn Harmonica Part 3 - BOOK

Milestone 6 - Increasing Non-Blues Repertoire

• Yesterday

• Hallelujah

• Georgia On My Mind

• Cajun

• Country

• Celtic

• Reggae

• Rock

• Bluegrass

• Old Time

• Jazz

• Funk

• Indian Classical

• Folk

• 'World music'

Guest Masterclasses recorded live - look at all the famous names! :

Rohan Singhal - Indian Classical on diatonic October 2022
Roly Platt - playing FUNK on diatonic Sept 2022
PT Gazell How to approach Jazz on Diatonic August 2022
Steve Weston Canvey Island Blues Expert July 2022
Niki - iReal Pro demonstration June 2022
Ed Hopwood May 2022 Country Grooves and Rhythms
Sean The Horn April 2022 Horn Line Workshop
Gerhard Muller 37 years at HOHNER! Product manager
Phil Henry - Folk Music and Beatboxing Tutorial
Brendan Power Feb 2022 - the new modular system reed system
Rob (Blues Brothers Frontman) Paparozzi Performance Masterclass
Rachelle Plas 11.9.21 Country Music Masterclass
Ed Hopwood 20.8.21 (132:10) Old Timey Style
Aidan Sheehan 17.7.21 (61:36) Cajun Music on harmonica
Paul Lennon 10.7.21 (73:04) Music Theory
John Cook 3.7.21 (78:38) Maintenance and engineering
Johnny Cope 26.6.21 Harmonics Jaws Harp, Throat Singing Didgeridoo
Paul Lamb 19.6.21 (63:18) Sonny Terry Master
Joe Filisko 12.6.21 (86:46) The Master Talks
Jimi Lee 5.6.21 The groove master talks
Kinya Pollard 8.5.21 (59:06) Cleaning and maintenance
Keith Parker 27.3.21 (56:14) Blues Blues and Blues
Will Wilde 13.3.21 (57:09) Rock Harmonica Star
Rachelle Plas 27.2.21 (45:29) French Harp Star
Brendan Power 13.2.21 (45:52) Celtic music, looping and music tech
Ed Hopwood 30.1.21 (132:10) Old Timey Style

Harmonica Factory tours and chats:

Hohner Harmonica Factory in Trossingen, Germany
Dabell Harmonica Factory - wonderful video
Interview with Benny Yoon - owner of Dabell Harmonica Company
Easttop Ben's visit to Easttop and Kongsheng
Bertram Becher Seydel Harmonica Factory in Klingenthal

Lockdown 2020 guests

5.4.20 Ed Hopwood, Keith Parker, Filip Jers
12.4.20 Will Wilde, Lars from Seydel, Richard Taylor
19.4.20 Joe Filisko, Jerry Fierro, Rob Paparozzi
26.4.20 John Cook, Roly Platt, Brendan Power
3.5.20 Rohan Singhal, Johnny Cope, John and Yuki Vaughan
10.5.20 Paul Lamb, Giles Robson, Simon Joy
17.5.20 Beata Kosovska, Steve Baker, Adam Gussow
24.5.20 Lee Oskar, Moses Concas, Steve Lockwood
31.5.20 David Barrett, Kinya Pollard, Greh Heuman HEUMANN
7.6.20 Jason Ricci, Tom Halchack, Rob Paparozzi
21.6.20 Rick Park, Mark Cole, Dave Walker, Jimi Lee

How does this Facebook thing work?

It's a 90 day video diary challenge to help you document your success

It's a private group - invitation only, no dickheads allowed
We give you the opportunity to post a 1-minute video every day
You get instant feedback from fellow students and our group experts
You will be heard, listened to, congratulated and encouraged
You might get your arse kicked as well - but in a nice way!
You get the chance to help your fellow students on their journey
You will document your harmonica journey every day for 90 days
You will want to do a farewell performance on day 90
You make friends for life and watch their harmonica careers unfold
After 90 days you go to the Graduate Facebook group
You might become a group expert or get another job hosting/helping
After that - we might invite you to do the 90 day journey again...
It's a little bit of pressure - not too much, just enough
Don't forget - you get lifetime access to all this

What are the 5 steps to success?

Frequently Asked Questions

How do we coach/mentor our students?

3 pillars; training, feedback, live zoom sessions (blended learning)

Welcome

Group Coaching Sessions (3 per week)

Would you like to sample a live zoom session?

Just ask for the free zoom link

Training Videos and Books are all included (lifetime access)

All Ben's 20 Books are also all included

Overview

How does this Facebook thing work?

It's a 90 day video diary challenge to help you document your success

Private Facebook Group Daily Mentoring

Private Facebook Group Daily Mentoring

Practise diaries

'Want to learn harmonica? Study with Ben Hewlett' Paul Jones, Manfred Mann, BBC R2 Blues Show, President of HarmonicaUK (Ben's line manager!)

'If you want to learn from a harmonica expert, we've got Ben Hewlett coming in to the studio for the next five weeks to teach you' Cerys Matthews BBC Radio

'I respect your hard work educational aims with teaching the harmonica' Larry Adler 1999 (yes, THE Larry Adler) Past President of HarmonicaUK

Ben on Radio 4 Saturday Live

What are the 5 steps to success?

Frequently Asked Questions

How do we coach/mentor our students?

3 pillars; training, feedback, live zoom sessions (blended learning)

Welcome

Group Coaching Sessions (3 per week)

Would you like to sample a live zoom session?

Just ask for the free zoom link

Training Videos and Books are all included (lifetime access)

All Ben's 20 Books are also all included

Overview

How does this Facebook thing work?

It's a 90 day video diary challenge to help you document your success

Private Facebook Group Daily Mentoring

Private Facebook Group Daily Mentoring

Practise diaries

'Want to learn harmonica? Study with Ben Hewlett' Paul Jones, Manfred Mann, BBC R2 Blues Show, President of HarmonicaUK (Ben's line manager!)

'If you want to learn from a harmonica expert, we've got Ben Hewlett coming in to the studio for the next five weeks to teach you' Cerys Matthews BBC Radio

'I respect your hard work educational aims with teaching the harmonica' Larry Adler 1999 (yes, THE Larry Adler) Past President of HarmonicaUK

Ben on Radio 4 Saturday Live

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