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From: JfGindi~ol.com
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 23:49:36 -0400
Subject: Who Nose?

One of the biggest problems I face with beginners is that they play every
draw note slightly bent. It is equally important to learn to play notes
unbent. Fooling around with the nose thing yesterday, I learned that closing
off the nose with kind of a silent snort does add a certain power to the bend
that might be useful for beginners. In fact a person might get into a bend,
just by concentrating on the nose closing (even though there's a lot more
than that going on.) Maybe it would help beginning benders to try closing
their noses on the, say, bent 4 draw,
and to open their noses on the unbent. By the way since we're talking about
tone, I consider my open nose to be one way that I get my resonance. However,
it should be added that I tend toward a sweeter tone than many of the blues
players on the list, and this may be a factor. In my teaching, I try to make
suggestions that will help students discover what works for them. I could
say, "Try bending with the nose open? Doesn't work? Try bending with your
nose closed? Doesn't work? Try bending..." I believe that people learn to
play from the inside out and that what doesn't work for one guy will work for
someone else and vice versa. One reason for this is the inadequacy of words
to get people to do the subtle things
that give us the effects, and also that people are different.
By making suggestions that the beginner can try, the teacher increases the
players sensitivity and imagination and it is here that the breakthrough will
eventually occur. Jon