Re: [Harp-L] calling tongue block benders

["Dave Payne, Elk River Harmonicas" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How do you tongue-blockers bend anyway? I've tried it many times, I can't get any bend whatsoever if my tongue is on the harp. I could use it, I play a lot of tongue block octaves, a lot of times a melody will take me say to hole 3, then I'm playing out of only one side until the melody gets to the 4 hole again. It would be nice if I could bend that three draw.
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Dave Payne Sr. 
Elk River Harmonicas
www.elkriverharmonicas.com 



----- Original Message ----
From: Frank Franze <Franze52@xxxxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:16:54 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] calling tongue block benders

Hi - Steve... my eureka moment was>>" not putting a time limit" on how long it would take to master solid tongue blocking techniques out of the left side of my mouth.  A suggestion would be to make sure your ability to play music using nothing but octaves is strong and effortless.  Good luck and above all have fun! Frank
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