Tone (Part 3)

Now that you've explored how to get your tongue down in the mouth and experienced how it influences your tone, experiment with you're tongue's placement in the mouth for different sounds. Start with your tongue lowered for a big, warm, bassy, round tone... slowly raise the tongue until the wings of the back of your tongue touch your upper set of teeth (like saying "EEE" without vocalizing), this position can have good tone possibilities and may be a good place to fix some unwanted bend issues... then move the tongue forward and up in the mouth until the tongue fills up the entire mouth to achieve a very thin, whinny tone (this is used by players... Rice Miller for example... to achieve differences in tone... we don't always want our tone to be the same). This slow, purposeful experimenting leads to mastery of tone and control in bending.