Re: Harp Experience & Lessons

[Geoff Roberts <redda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>	For example, for the first three or four years I played the harp I
>	puckered to get individual notes. Then I had the good fortune to take
>	a few lessons from Paul Oscher, a great player who worked with Muddy Waters
>	in the late 1960s. In about five short minutes he made it perfectly clear
>	to me that I was never going to get that Chicago blues harp sound unless
>	I started tongue blocking. I nearly had to start all over on the harp,.
>	and it was very frustrating for a few months until I fought through it.
>	
>	--Kim Field
	
You mean I have to start all over again... ????   Why is tongue blocking the only
way to get the Chicago blues sound ???

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