This Little Light of Mine | Free Harmonica Lesson, Harp Tabs & Backing Track

Hello! This is a free harmonica lesson (in play-along or 'harpaoke' form) for the traditional folk and spiritual song 'This Little Light of Mine'. There's a demo followed by a backing track with full harp tabs for you to follow and play along.

Did you know? This song was reported to be written by Harry Dixon Loes, but he never claimed credit for it.

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The tab system

The song is tabbed out for diatonic harmonica (in any key). The symbols I use are pretty basic - positive numbers are blow, negative numbers are draw.

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This Little Light of Mine - harmonica tabs:

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

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine -6 -6 -6 -6 -7 7 7 7 7 7 -6 6

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine 6 6 6 6 -6 7 8 8 8 8 -8 7

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine

7 -8 8 -9 8 -8 8 -8 7 Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine

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