Essential Harmonica Techniques for a Fat Blues Sound Part 1 - Tongue Blocking

Description and demonstration of four tongue-blocking techniques for Chicago blues style harmonica. A quick whizz through the "slap", octaves and splits, the "pull" and the "flutter".

I'm using a harmonica in the key of A.

Part two of this 2-part series covers some general techniques you can use whether you're tongue blocking or not. It can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFOXYcFFTto

There's a PDF accompanying these two videos with diagrams and additional explanations. You can download that here:
https://leedsharmonica.uk/resources/essential-techniques/essential-techniques.pdf

The backing track used in this video is Walter Shuffle in E from Jimmi Lee's Every Groove A Bluesman Needs To Know, a fantastic two-disc collection.
https://www.jimilee.com/instant_download/

Thanks for watching. More harmonica nerdery at:
https://www.leedsharmonica.uk/

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