Re: [Harp-L] Tongue blocking and speed

"Eric Garcia" <ericgar85@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:48:40 -0400

well.. since you play harp.. and apparently for quite sometime..

you should be able to tell that tbing @ lower register notes with the

same speed and dexterity presents physical problems.

...note that sugar blue doesn't spend a lot of time down there except for

more melodic reasons..

... i'm not calling him a liar.. i have met him,, right around when that 95 
article came

out actually... don't know him well enough to call him a liar.. booked him 
at my club,,

he's definitely on the crazy side..

all i'm saying is,, that just because he says it,, it's not in stone, and 
should be taken as such.

i'm not disputing the advantages of tbing,, but i think we can agree on it's 
limitations

before everybody in the harp-l world converts to "toungeblockism"
eric
From: Jonathan Ross <jross38@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Eric Garcia <ericgar85@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Tongue blocking and speed
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:35:54 -0400
you honestly think he's tb-ing 100% at the lower register also with  the 
same speed and dexterity??

think about it and try it.

I can't play that fast.  I can't play that fast puckering, I can't  play 
that fast tongue-blocking.  I can play as fast as I can play  tbing as 
puckering.
Sugar Blue said he does it.  If you think he's lying, well, then you  think 
he's a liar.  I don't see any reason to assume that.
Just because _YOU_ cannot do something doesn't mean that it can't be  done. 
 If you have a rational, logical, reasonable argument as to why  
physically it is impossible to tongue-block at high speeds, please  share 
it.

 ()()    JR "Bulldogge" Ross
()  ()   & Snuffy, too:)
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