Ryan
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Oct 20, 2008
5:53 PM
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I'm trying to learn the tongue blocking technique and I'm making progress with my blow octaves, but I can not get any sound trying to inhale and tongue block. How am I supposed to go about doing this?
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Trueblue
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Oct 20, 2008
7:10 PM
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Phew!!
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Ryan
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Oct 20, 2008
7:17 PM
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Trueblue
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Oct 20, 2008
8:46 PM
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Sorry Ryan. I'm no good at tongue blocking either. Instead of octaves wouldn't you mean chords? Which of Adams lessons are you referring to?
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SweetLips
5 posts
Oct 20, 2008
9:01 PM
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What specifically are you not getting on the draw, Are you not pulling any air at all, some, the sound is tinny, or you cant maintain for long.
In the begining I found it easier to hit single note draws using tongue block when bringing the tongue to the comb in a slap prior to the single note - giving you a little chord dirt prior to the single note. In general I TB 85% of the time but have found concentrating on my lips and as Adam says making them "fatter" I have a lot more touch and nuance. I am working on bending out of both the left and ride side TB.
good luck
SL
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ocsar
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Oct 20, 2008
10:03 PM
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soy de colombia me gustaria aprender a tocar la harmonica pero no conozco a nadie que la interprete como adam.
como lo contacto personalmente???????
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Trueblue
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Oct 20, 2008
10:20 PM
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Whatever!!! Cant agree or disagree with you.
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Trueblue
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Oct 20, 2008
11:30 PM
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Adam, from my understanding Oscar wants to learn harmonica and is asking re an interpreter or instructors in Colombia?? I asked my 7yo grandaughter to interpret. My grandaughters mum is Brazillian.
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tookatooka
15 posts
Oct 21, 2008
3:45 AM
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You may want to try the following to get you going.
1. Open mouth up wide to four hole width.
2. Inhale and exhale while saying la-la-la with your tongue but allow tongue to lightly slap the comb.
3. Once you've got this, it's just a question of refining it to meet your needs.
You may want to use it for octaves or single note playing by reducing the number of holes used. I often play a single hole then lift my tongue from another two that the tongue was covering.
There are many variations that are possible.
Hope that makes sense.
It's a basic building block to get you going.
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snakes
32 posts
Oct 21, 2008
8:53 AM
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I hope this simple comment doesn't insult anyone's intelligence as I am in the beginning phase of learning to tongue block. What helps me is to not forget (or rather to remember to conceptualize while tb'ing) the fact that my lip on the opposite side as where I am using my tongue has got to cover the hole sufficiently. For some reason until I visualized this while playing I was all over the board with the strange and ghoulish sounds produced while tongue blocking.
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Philosofy
66 posts
Oct 21, 2008
1:11 PM
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This may be elementary or not for the original poster:
Not all draw notes can be done as an octave. Although it works for all blow notes (the third hole up or down from every blow note is an ocatve), it doesn't work for all draw notes. The only pairs of octaves on the draw side of the harp are: 1&4, 4&8, 3&7, 5&9, 6&10. You will notice that only the 1&4 has the two holes between them: all the rest have three.
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DanP
6 posts
Nov 07, 2008
6:32 PM
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I'm not sure I understand the question but as Philosofy pointed out, most of the draw octaves are farther apart than the blow octaves. The 1&4 draw octave is the only octave on the draw side that use the same mouth position as the blow octaves.The 2&5 draw is not a true octave (its a seventh chord) but it is useful to learn and comes in handy when you're playing blues. So you have to open your mouth a little wider so its over 5 holes rather than 4 and block the three holes in the middle. You do this on the 3&7, the 4&8, the 5&9 and the 6&10.
Last Edited by on Nov 07, 2008 6:34 PM
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