Here are five exercises you can use to practice your tab reading. Start slowly, taking however much time you need to figure out each note and work out each exercise, and once you have them down, speed up the pace at which you're playing them, all the time looking at the tab while you're playing. Soon you should be able to play music written in tab as quickly as you can read it.

FIGURE 7-4:Tab reading exercise 1

FIGURE 7-5:Tab reading exercise 2

FIGURE 7-6:Tab reading exercise 3

FIGURE 7-7:Tab reading exercise 4

FIGURE 7-8:Tab reading exercise 5

The next chapter will look at how to play harmonica in the first three positions, the key positions on your instrument.