Re: Howard Levy stuff in uk?

[jterrasi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joe Terrasi)]

riff omer writes:

>trying to bend and tongue block at the same time is a bit confusing
>for the tongue.when you bend the notes,notice that your tongue is
>pressed down against your jaw and the tip of your tongue is pointing
>up,that's if you bend notes "by the book".so if when your tongue
>is goin' down inside the cavity of your mouth,it would be quite
>difficult to press it against the holes of the harp,and you might get
>some unpleasent notes\effects.you can try and bend the notes by changing
>the angle of the harp against your lips (but that's a bad technique
>in the long run) and then tongue block the notes.my advice is to
>tongue block and bend but not at once.


I hate to be contrary, but my experience is different.  When I play, I mix
my use of tongue blocking and puckering. There is definitely a way to
tongue block and bend at the same time, but I do seem to remember it was
harder to get a feel for when I was first learning.

I am not as eloquent as our fellow list members when it comes to specific
technical descriptions of various embouchure techniques (Winston, please
step up...), but I THINK that what I'm actually doing to bend while tongue
blocking is making more use of my throat to alter the airflow.  (The Long
Sentence Police are lookin' for me!)

I'll wait for a more lucid answer from Winston.

Joe

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