I Don't Want to Miss a Thing | Beginner Harmonica Lesson & Tabs | Aerosmith

Today's free harmonica lesson is an easy beginner harmonica lesson on how to play 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing' by Aerosmith. This epic power ballad is full of long, emotional phrases and rich melodic lines. The tabs include blow bends and overblows, which makes it a fantastic challenge for advanced players, giving you access to those expressive higher-register notes that really make the melody sing.

I'm using a diatonic harmonica in the key of D but the tabs will work for any key of harp.

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Here are my free harp tabs for the song:

VERSE:

6 6 5 6 -6 5 6 8 7 -8 7

I could stay awake just to hear you breathing

7 7 -6 6 6 5 6 6

Watch you smile while you are sleeping

7 7 -6 6 6 5 6 -6

While you're far away and dreaming

6 6 5 6 -6 5 6 8 7 -8 7

I could spend my life in this sweet surender

7 7 -6 6 6 5 6 -6 6 6 -5 -6

I could stay lost in this moment for-e-ever

-6 -7 7 -8 -8 6 8 7 -6 7 -8 8 8 -8

Ev'ry moment spent with you is a moment I treasure

CHORUS:

8 8 8 8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 9 -9 8

Don't wanna close my eyes, don’t wanna fall asleep

-8 7 -8 -6 7 6 6 8 -8 7 7 -6 -8 7

‘Cos I'd miss you baby, and I don’t wanna miss a thi-ing

7 8 8 8 8 8 -8 -8

‘Cos even when I dream of you

-8 -8 -8 -8 -8 9 -9 8

The sweetest dream would never do

-8 7 -8 -6 7 6 6 8 -8 7 7 -6 -8 7

I’d still miss you baby, and I don’t wanna miss a thi-ing

(repeat verse and chorus)

BRIDGE:

7 8 8 8 8 -8 -8 -8 (7 -6)

I don't wanna miss one smile

-8 -8 -8 -8 7 -8 -6

I don't wanna miss one kiss

7 7 7 6* 7 6* 7 -8 8/ -8 7

I just wanna be with you right here with you

6* 6* 6*

Just like this

8/ 8/ 8/ 8/ 8/ -8 -8 7 6*

I just wanna hold you clo-o-ose

-8 -9 -9 -8 -9 -8 9 -9

Feel your heart so close to mine

7 -8 8/ 8/ -9 8/ -8 7

And just stay here in this moment

6* 7 -8 -8 -8 -8 9

For all the rest of time (aaaaah)

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