Fwd: TB in 30 min/day...(was IICDIAO)

["Tim Moyer" <wmharps@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rupert Oysler wrote:
> > Tim Moyer wrote:
> > I'm now slowly working
> > on tongue blocking (I can't seem to make myself NOT play an octave
> > when my tongue touches the harp!).  It may take me a year or more 
> > to get a reasonable tongue block embouchure (and longer to play 
> > it in public), but I'm confident I can get there, 30 minutes a 
> > day
> I think a lot of the learning curve on TB how unfamiliar we all are 
> with our mouths and tongues- what they're doing etc. You can do a 
> lot to help in times away from the harp by practicing tongue 
> movements and stuff. 

I may be unique in this, but my problem is not in control of the 
tongue.  I use my tongue quite fluidly in tongue blocked octaves, 
which I learned very early in my playing from listening to Paul 
Butterfield.  I move between puckered single notes and tongue blocked 
octaves without thinking about it.  The trouble is that I can't put 
my tongue on the front of the harp and NOT play an octave.  I 
expected it to be easy to simply block one side or the other of the 
octave, but old habits are hard to modify.  

Still working on it,

- -tim