re: Help with Valved bends

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Howdy, there are two things that do a lot for me:
1.      I "work out" with the super 64, playing along with Bill Clarke or 
Rod Piazza, toungeblocked octaves. It takes some air. After a while I 
figured out that instead of a lot of pressure (blowing your brains out for 
volume), it sounds oh so fine to really open my throat, increasing volume 
instead of pressure. Then I started getting real control of bending from 
somewhere else besides my tongue or embrouchre. I don't know where it's 
happening exactly, but I envision pulling the bends from way down in the 
gut. And the tone is awesome.

2.      I've been trying to get the (unvalved diatonic) blowbending down 
with the t.b. I've done it twice I think, but just practicing it in a 
concrete room with natural reverb (set on "12"), and listening for the 
sweet tone spot of resonance tells me when my throat is really open. I've 
almost got em, but the side effect is training the muscles and increased 
control of drawbends with good tone. The whole thing revolves around that 
resonance. The funny thing is that I do t.b. blowbends on the chromatic, 
but can only do it on the diatonic with U-groove. I'll get em eventually. 

There's a lot to read about resonance in the archives in posts by Ironman 
Mike, that's where I caught the clue. 

~now get back to practicing~
   kcmojoe