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Embouchure for bending

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Sat, 07/14/2018 - 14:42
Ronnie_Sarkar
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Sir , I am able to bend notes on 4th and 1st hole right from the beginning itself , but which should we try while doing it? The tongue block technique makes it pretty hard to bend notes as the tongue gives a large space for only the single original clean note. Please reply .

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Mon, 07/16/2018 - 08:11
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David Barrett
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Hello Ronnie. You will tongue

Hello Ronnie. You will tongue block for all of your bends. If you pucker (take your tongue off) for hole 1, then you will be pucker bending.

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