Tongue blocking..and switching..

Hi David and thanks again for the review of my first submission - Temperature.

Since then I have been digging into the Forums and videos and I am convinced that I need to accept some pain by moving from pucker where I am comfortable to TBing. I can bend all reeds puckered accept for holding a stepped 3 draw reliably. I attempted my first TB bend this evening on A Harp 6 draw and actually got it. It wasn't very controlled, and I kept going through the bend at first but a few more tries I held it for a few seconds so I was very happy. If I went straight away and tried the TB bend now I would fail but I didn't really think about what was happening in my mouth (although I had watched the vids), I just played the bend puckered first to get the sound and then attempted the TB and that seems to work for me. Hopefully I can get the others in using this method as well.. perhaps it might also help someone else making the transition.

Any way the question I do have is around when to using the tongue switch. Do you only block the left side on hole 1? When I play the entire Temperature tongue blocked I get my tongue tied up on some licks. Simple example take 2nd Chorus 9-12 bar where you are playing hole 1 and then hole 2. Playing this pucked was smooth but switching the tongue from right to left is not. Is there times like this that you would recommend playing the 2 hole from the left side? Hope this makes sense.

Thanks, Mark