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Jew's Harp musical instrument

Foundations

Finding the Overtones

Moving the tongue to select harmonics.

Beginner14 min70 BPM

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Key concepts

  • Tongue as resonator
  • Harmonic series
  • Front vs back vowels

Practice exercises

  1. 1Sweep low to high slowly
  2. 2Hold three distinct overtones

Today's challenge10 slow clean plucks Then play it again 3 BPM faster and keep it clean.

Practice tempo

70 BPM

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