Re: tongue-block overblows?

["Tinus" <tinus@xxxxxxx>]

> > If you play your overblows from the back of your tongue, the tongue
position
> > is not that important.
>
> Hmmm, this stuff is so difficult when you can't see anything :-)

Yes it is isn't it :-)

> I *think* I bring up the back of my tongue to choke the closing reed
> and start the overblow. Lowering the tongue opens the blow
> reed again. The trouble is that bringing the tip of my tongue
> forward to tongue-block is lowering the back of my tongue
> and ceasing the overblow. Does that make sense?

Yes, that makes sense, it sounds like you are on the right track there.
Try to start out with a tongue block and then choke the blowreed from the
back of the tongue.
If you can do that you will soon find the position that will allow the
overblow to sound.

> I play TB draw bends using my throat, and maybe lowering the back of my
> tongue. Is there any relation to the way you do TB OBs?

Yes, they are fairly similar, i play my bends that way although I don't
tongue block mostly.
The difference between blocking and puckering is very slight.
The same technique you use to get the drawbends should allow you to play the
tongue blocked overblows.
from the throat and the back of the tongue.

Just get that reed to choke and then find the right resonance frequency for
that drawreed to start sounding.

Tinus
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