How the heck does she do that? (Triple-tonguing articulation)

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Indiara Sfair has a lot of unusual effects but this one blows me away. how the heck does she make the effect at about .46 to .50?

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That’s double and tripple tongue on the inhale. Say Ti-ki-ti-ta while inhaling. Add some hand game and you got it.

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@Hogie.Harmonica wow… it sure doesn’t sound the same when I do that :rofl: :rofl:

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It takes some time to learn how to do it without messing up the sound. Hold the tongue low, use the very tip of the tongue for the ti’s and ta’s, and the ka should be inbetween a ka and a ga.

Do it slow and make it part of the fundamentals part of your warm-up. It’ll come.

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Thank you so much for the tips @Hogie.Harmonica. apparently I need to allocate many more months than anticipated for my learning curve LOL. I think I have the general gist of it now however. :+1:

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I walk around the house making odd noises in my mouth, I get some very strange looks off my wife, sometimes she just laughs and asks me what on earth I’m doing then I’ll pick up a harp and show her, I also find this technique useful for breath control. If you’re not afraid of men in white coats carrying butterfly nets coming to get you

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Glad to help. Some things on harmonica are easy, others take a long time to learn. This one is somewhere in the middle.

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@davidkachalon here’s a good example of a sound that’s unique to lipping - although she’s playing double stops here.

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Yep I hear it. Very cool.

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