for beginners: lip pursing vs tongue blocking

Beginning blues harmonica players are often confused by an issue that preoccupies more experienced players: the relative advantages and disadvantages of the two main ways of producing notes, lip pursing and tongue blocking. This video quickly describes and demonstrates both techniques, focusing on differentand similarsounds that they produce on the lower three holes. With Adam Gussow of Modern Blues Harmonica. Gussow is currently appearing in the Netflix documentary Satan Adam, which describes the rise, fall, and latelife resurrection of his Harlembased blues duo by the same name.