Separating the tongue and throat
Fri, 02/19/2016 - 07:39
This is a continuation of the open pathway thread.
I followed your advice, but now another problem had arisen.
It seems that when i try to bend with just my tongue ( my throat open, jaw dropped) I have to much space between my tongue and roof mouth. And the bend just doesn't want to happen. It seems that if I raise my jaw up closer to normal resting position it is much easier to bend with just the tongue. Ofcourse not without a sacrifice in sound/tone. Any advice in this perticular area?
Any other advice in the vein of tone and embouchure would be great. I'm trying to correct all my bad Habits now before I play for years the wrong way. Much harder to retrain yourself at that point i would imagine.
Thanks
Instead of raising your jaw, you can raise the part of your tongue between the tip (where you're tongue blocking) and the K-spot (where you're narrowing the air passage). I find that I can do this without sacrificing tone.
Breathing using your entire air column helps to support tone.