Puckering learning to Tongue Block
Thu, 01/30/2025 - 07:48
Hi David,
I learned to play harmonica puckering and now i'm going the the LOA and learning how to tongue block! For Solo Harmonica study 2 Ex 1.4 C and D would you slap the 3+ but then slightly bend 3 blow with a pucker and keep puckering until you then slap the 4 blow in C and 6+ in D?
Maybe while i'm practicing it makes sense to slap them all but in the future if i was just playing and doing both tongue blocking and puckering would what i describe above be a good approach?
Andrew Pfeiffer
Hello Andrew.
Welcome to the tongue block journey.
I would recommend you play 2 draw, 3 draw dip, then switch to tongue blocking for the rest of the lick. The typical thing to do is switch at hole 4 for TB. There are exceptions of course (such as a shuffle bass line, if you're not using any bending, for example).