RE: [Harp-L] "A-Train" {corner-switching correction]

[robert mcgraw <harpbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > The back-and-forth leaps in A-train are dead easy and play very smoothly if you use tongue-switching.
> ---Lots of the responses on this have involved using corner [or tongue] switching for this part of the tune...bars 1-5. I don't disagree that corner-switching helps with this, but for me the real problem isn't with this part of the tune, it's with the next two bars...the little chromatic passage A-A#-B-E then G-F#-F-C# [all in one bar!] then C-E.
> 
> Here i don't think corner-switching is relevent, and here is where, I think, the tune is difficult. At least for me :-)
> 
> WVa Bob

---Wrong again, WVa Bob :-) After I posted the above, I tried using corner switching on the passage above [bars 6-7]...not only is corner switching relevent here, I think it may well be answer [for me at least]. I'm primarily a pucker player, but I think what I will start doing is tongue blocking the melody and then switching to pucker for the improv. By the way, a list member who is a really superb jazz player is going to post this on You Tube, soon I think.

Thanks to all for posting on this...

WVa Bob

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