Re: [Harp-L] Tongue Trill

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It has a subtly different sound to the 'shake'. I started doing it from the example of Gwen Foster, usually with a block of one, two or three holes. Now I use it as well in place of the usual 'shake', sometimes with the block, or sometimes on two adjacent holes. One favourite application of this is in a fifth position minor blues with an alternating blow on holes two & three, being the root and minor third of the I chord, and similarly on blow one & two or two and three producing the minor third and fifth of the IV chord (when the IV is minor) It is a more 'keyboard-like' sound, which is my intention, trying to produce a sort of organ-like backing. It has a passive sound, compared to the head/hand 'shake'.
RD


>>> Larry Marks <larry.marks@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 21/12/2007 12:04 >>>
I heard a guy do it in Berkeley (Larry Blake's Blue Monday for you Bay 
Areans) once. I never spoke to him about it, but I could clearly see and 
hear that he was doing a pseudo-trill (the blues 4-5D) with his tongue 
alone by covering and uncovering the 5, while playing the 4 straight 
through. Admired the tongue work, but I didn't like the sound. I shake.

Larry Marks
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