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Tongue Agility

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Sun, 06/26/2011 - 17:05
Taylor Ward
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Hey David, I was going back to work on Tongue Blocking Study 1.1 - Tongue Agility (I didn't practice it as much as I should have during the last section). I can do the octave and tongue switching from the 4 to 1 hole but are we supposed to do the tongue switching when we move up to the 5 and 2 hole on this exercise? I thought we always play the 2 hole with our tongue to the left and only the 1 hole with our tongue to the right.
-Taylor

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Sun, 06/26/2011 - 19:25
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David Barrett
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Yes, do the switching for the 2 in this exercise. You are correct about normally playing the 2 draw and above with the tongue to the left, but this is an agility exercise. A side note... we do tongue switch now and again for other holes... mostly in pre-war blues.

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Sun, 06/26/2011 - 21:03
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Taylor Ward
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OK. Thank you. That clears

OK. Thank you. That clears things up. Will do.

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