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Sonny Boy Hand triplet

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Sun, 09/18/2011 - 05:12
sergiojl
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Hi Dave.
Reading your great book "Building harmonica technique" chapter about hand vibrato, you speak there about sonny boy's hand vibrato triplet in one song.
Can you say me which song is that?

Thanks in advance.

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Sun, 09/18/2011 - 16:18
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David Barrett
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I'm sorry, I don't. I wrote that when I was 18 years old... that's going back a while! It's also more correct to call it a hand tremolo (a vibrato is a change in pitch)... I didn't know that back then ;-)

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Sun, 09/18/2011 - 15:21
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Don't worry. I have found

Don't worry.
I have found that putting a little of irish music into my training helps a lot in order to gain speed and exactitude (over all the harmonica from low to high ends), and this kind of music needs a lot of ornamentation (basically speed triplets).
I am trying to do this triplets by hand because being a tongue blocker it is being so difficult to do them.
Anyway I am looking for other ways (Winslow is helping a lot).
Of course this cannot be an excuse, I've seen James Conway's interview in this web and the man is as fast as the light, using tongue blocking.

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