Tongue Blocking from a Lip Purser (HARMONICA) 001.

(Ab harp in Eb cross) A skewed and blatantly biased over view of the wonderful, mythical and often dogmatic world of tongue blocking from a Lip Purser's thin toned point of view. Tongue blocking is achieved by covering holes with your tongue and voicing the target note out of either corner of your mouth(usually right), Lip pursing is achieved by pursing your lips and making a small hole with your mouth. Check out Rockers in The Rockies harmonica seminar! @ http://www.jasonricci.com/rockinrockies/ and see also: www.jasonricci.com

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Howto & Style

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• harmonica
• harp
• mouth
• organ
• tongue
• block
• tone
• jason
• ricci
• rockers
• rockies
• lesson
• instruction
• tutorial

[gregorisgod]

Your videos are great.

I must admit I feel more comfortable pursing, but I can play with tongue blocking, pursing just feels easier.

[jasonricci]

Yhanks! Theres nothing wrong at all with that. Im mostly a lip purser.

J

[postmeester]

Nice girl. Tongue blocking (after a boring 5 minutes intro). Neverteless, a nice woman with a hot story

[jasonricci]

ok.

[mcphatmann]

So glad I found your videos man...honestly this has helped me more than like....the 4 instructional books/cds/dvds I payed way to much for.

[jasonricci]

Thank you so much glad to help.

[chrisdavies23359]

when you say voicing the target note, do you actually mean whistling the actual note?

[mrdannygb1606]

thanks man just got from adams site you gave a the tip i needed to get better tongue blocking!

[MrSwamp5]

@jasonricci thank you jason good clip

[natiaeleniko]

au



[droverboy1]

Hey J, you sound fantastic no matter how you play. Im amazed how you can move on the harp like you do and i know thats from years of pratice and doing scales. Thanks Rusty B.

[miniwilliams88]

5:18

"Ayway," *FAPFAPFAP*

[Jano130390]

Damn, you're good at this!

I'm trying to tongue block but seem to fail a lot, aspecially with the draw notes, my mouth area changes and i get a fail :S Also when i want to change notes from lets say 4 blow to 5 blow, my tongue isn't going with me all the time, so i get the 4+5 blow. Same with going from right to left. Am i pushing my tongue too hard against the harmonica? Any tips please?

[barflew]

After 35 years of tongue blocking and slaps as an accompaniment to my solo playing when I was alone I have just in recent years started improving on the lip pursing style.... Now if I could only develop some natural musical talent I think that I would be pretty good.

[clrn2mt]

Thanks! I was trying to figure out some Chicago Blues stuff that required like a tongue slapping on the low end and for the life of me.... then I found this Youtube and Whammo. Awesome rhythm with 1 draw, 2 blow, 3 draw, 3 blow. Slapping it out. I sound like Little Walter! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

[gbuxman]

Jason- thank you for being so generous with your time and talents. These videos are immensely helpful. Like you, I've been a lip purser all my life, and only in recent years discovered tongue blocking. It freaks me out- feels like starting all over again! Your video really helped. Also got a lot out of your session on chordal vamping- totally demystified the subject! By the way, your playing goes a long way to dispelling the argument that pursing is inferior to TBing. Rock on!