[Harp-L] U-blocking (Larry Marks)

[dennis moriarty <dmoriarty@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Larry: I'm really curious. Do you have any recordings or a web  
page with sound samples of your playing? I u-block and my tongue (to  
paraphrase you) also sort of naturally fits over the individual note  
in a central to my tongue position so that it's not literally u-shaped  
but more like a relaxed v shape. I've been doing this forever. I think  
my strong points with this embouchure is tone and really strong long  
single notes. On the other hand I wonder whether my lack of  
versatility/dexterity is more relative to this embouchure or my  
lifelong laziness with practice. I'm not being facetious either. I  
would certainly like to improve, be less riff redundant, etc. but  
sometimes wish I could get a teacher to drive me that played with my  
same structural form (u-blocking) as it feels a million times easier  
to build on my organic qualities that learn anew. My best. dennis
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