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From: BluesGe~ol.com
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 23:55:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: 3 Draw

Jonathan Ross wrote:

>Dave, I started out tongue blocking purely on the left side. Hell, it
>wasn't untill I got Jerry Portnoy's class that I realized that players
>blocked out of their right side:)

There are players that like to use the left side to play single notes
(blocking and chording in with the higher notes). For the most part, the
diatonic blues players tend to play single notes from the right side
(blocking and chording with notes lower than the melody note). There is
definitely a different sound to the two methods.

Of course you can't chord adjacent to hole 1 unless you switch to playing out
of the left side. And if you chord adjacent to hole 2 playing the melody out
of the right side, you'll only get one note with which to chord. Some
players, therefore, often play holes 1 and 2 out of the left side.

Jerry focuses more on puckering out of holes 1-3, as a primary (but not
exclusive) approach to TBing in this range of holes, swithing to TB from hole
4 and up. Kim Wilson also uses this approach, and I can hear it often in
Little Walter. Jerry explores this method well. There are many TBers who TB
all the time, or almost all the time.

- -dave