Re: TB Question for Winslow[or anybody,really]

[Fernando Javier Toral <ftoral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Winslow Yerxa wrote

> There are a couple of version of that technique, and (memory is not
> clear on this) Walter may have used both of them on Oh Baby.
>
> One technique, which I calla shimmer, is to cleanly alternate between
> two notes on either side of the tongue. On a standard 10-hole
> diatonic, an octave split with two holes blocked would be fairly
> easy -not too narrow, not too wide. The tongue stays pretty much in
> one place, keeping the middle two holes blocked the whole time. But
> it kind of leans first to the right, blocking out the hole in the
> right corner of the mouth and leaving the note at the left as the
> only one sounding. Then it moves to the left so that the note on the
> right sounds alone. This way, you alternate between the two corners
> of the mouth. it doesn't mattter which side you start with.
>
> You can do shimmers with two notes on one side and one on the other,
> or even with two pairs of notes. The important thing is that only one
> of the chosen notes or pairs sounds at any one time - it's a clean,
> precise alternation.
>
> Another technique, called the rake, is more of a wash - everything
> can mix together. The tongue is not held down on the harp. It moves
> freely from side to side, raking back and forth across a chord.
> Rather than excluding notes in a clean, defined way, it just kinds of
> creates texture in a chord, with a fairly random but directional
> exclusion of notes.
>

Is one of these the technique used by Jerry Portnoy on "Lookin' For My
Baby" ?
(I'm at work, I can't check which CD included this tune...)

Fernando Toral
Argentina

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