Starting a new hobby...my first Blues Harp lesson

This is my beginner's blues harp Suzuki Manji M-20. The sound is very good (when I play it right).

This is my instructor Satoru Hiramatsu. He is both an excellent player and teacher. He helped me figure out a lot in just 90 minutes. Learning music has many things in common with learning a language.

First I need to work on my pronunciation of basic sounds intensively. Then I need to start developing vocabulary and little phrases like do-mi-so, and then I can move on to simple sentences.

Hopefully I'll be a little more fluent before my next lesson later this month. My goal is...