The great thing about a harmonica is that usually one can start playing songs right off the bat with only a little know-how. The Richter tuning ensures that you'll get nice-sounding chords anywhere up and down the ten holes of the diatonic harmonica, whether blowing or drawing the notes, and the unbent single notes you pick out also fit right into the scale. Now it's time to take control of the single-note techniques you learned in Chapter 4 and use them to play exact melody lines on your instrument.