Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:57:34 EST From: Spschn~ol.com Subject: Re: Bending the 10 hole blow & LO squeal
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The easiest way to conquer 10B bending is to anchor the tip of your tongue against the base of your lower front teeth and hump it forward as though you were sqeezing a pea in that space between your teeth and tongue. David Harp recommends that in his Bending the Blues book, and it works. Trying to direct the airstream downward, almost like spitting straight down between your feet, can also help--you are actually trying to get the 10D reed moving as a blow reed, so directing air at it can help.
However, once you've mastered that method, you can gain still more control by shifting your focus farther back in your mouth and humping the back of your tongue to instigate the bend. You will get cleaner half-steps and continuous bends when you do it this way, but learning the front-of-the-tongue method first seems simpler to me because of the feeling of a steady anchor to work against. It helps you mentally mark the half-step points, and then you transfer that focus back in your mouth and gain a cleaner resonant system using the back of your tongue, back where you say "Hah".
Danny Gilbert says,
the dogs in Look up "Turbotape" in the Dec. 2000 archives and apply where needed. Simple as that. It will also help bring in the 10B bends cleanly, as well as the 3Dbbb bend that's slippery on higher-keyed LOs. Fast way to get useful backups for your MB hybrids, or vice versa.
Stephen Schneider
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The easiest way to conquer 10B bending is to anchor the tip of your tongue
against the base of your lower front teeth and hump it forward as though you
were sqeezing a pea in that space between your teeth and tongue. David Harp
recommends that in his Bending the Blues book, and it works. Trying to
direct the airstream downward, almost like spitting straight down between
your feet, can also help--you are actually trying to get the 10D reed moving
as a blow reed, so directing air at it can help.
However, once you've mastered that method, you can gain still more control by
shifting your focus farther back in your mouth and humping the back of your
tongue to instigate the bend. You will get cleaner half-steps and continuous
bends when you do it this way, but learning the front-of-the-tongue method
first seems simpler to me because of the feeling of a steady anchor to work
against. It helps you mentally mark the half-step points, and then you
transfer that focus back in your mouth and gain a cleaner resonant system
using the back of your tongue, back where you say "Hah".
Danny Gilbert says,
<Anyway, you ain't alone in fighting the LO squealing monster. I call all the
dogs in <the neighborhood when trying to OB with the LO's.
Look up "Turbotape" in the Dec. 2000 archives and apply where needed. Simple
as that. It will also help bring in the 10B bends cleanly, as well as the
3Dbbb bend that's slippery on higher-keyed LOs. Fast way to get useful
