Light Touch & Relaxed Muscles = Speed

Keeping your lips, mouth, tongue, throat, neck, shoulders and back (embouchure and auxiliary muscles) relaxed are key to good tone and fast movement (a tensed muscle is a slow muscle). For tongue blockers, a light touch with your tongue on the face of the harmonica is essential (the more pressure you use, the more your tongue pushes into the holes of the harmonica = the more drag you create and the more effort it takes to pull the tongue on and off for our standard tongue blocking techniques and articulations).