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?
That’s double and tripple tongue on the inhale. Say Ti-ki-ti-ta while inhaling. Add some hand game and you got it.
@Hogie.Harmonica wow… it sure doesn’t sound the same when I do that
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.
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.
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
Glad to help. Some things on harmonica are easy, others take a long time to learn. This one is somewhere in the middle.
@davidkachalon here’s a good example of a sound that’s unique to lipping - although she’s playing double stops here.
Yep I hear it. Very cool.
@Luke by lipping you mean lip pursing? Why is that sound unique to lip pursing? I also sought that to play double stops you have to use you tongue to block holes in between holes (like when playing octaves). I’m missing something here…
Usually you mix it up Lip pursing is great for fast notes blocking for a fat sound
@Mugen Yes I prefer to call it Lip Blocking or just “Lipping” rather than “pursing” or “puckering” because those words conjure up bad pictures of tense lips for beginners.
Yes, you can say “takata” if your tongue is on the comb of the harmonica!
If you’re talking about playing doubles tops with non-adjacent holes, then you are correct, you have to have your tongue on the harmonica, but if you are playing 2 adjacent holes, then you don’t need to have your tongue on the comb.
Hope that helps. Rock on!
OK so if I got that correctly she is playing adjacent holes and articulating ti-ki-ti-ta off the back of the mouth.
Is she on a Eb?
@Mugen yes regarding the articulations, but she’s using an A harmonica to play in 3rd position, key of B Minor
I knew I had it wrong. Figuring out things by just listening is still very hard…