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

[Sariel "\"The" Yellow "Dart\"" Lehyani <SloopyJoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another technique that I like to use, but I don't have a name for is when
you play a four-hole octave and flutter your tongue back and forth across
the middle-two notes so that the octave plays constantly in conjunction
with the tongue flutter.

Love,

~Me


> 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.
>
> --- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Bob McGraw" <rmcgraw@xxxx>
> wrote:
>
> In a recent post Winslow referred to a Tubing technique that involved
> moving
> the tongue back and forth over the notes of a chord....not sure  I'm
> accurately describing what Winslow said and I didn't save that post :(
>
> Winslow[or anyone else who knows],could you describe the technique
> again,perhaps with some suggestions about how to practice it?
> Is it sort of like that lick LW uses as an intro on "Oh
> Baby?"Thanks....
> WVa Bob
>
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