Now the next question I get asked is How do you play single notes because we've kind of covered chords
and chugging and train sounds very briefly like two hours on each of those subjects.
And my other courses do exactly that.
But this is just a quick zero to hero course.
How do you get single notes.
Well you've got to get the air into just one of those holes.
No others so you could use tape masking tape fingers you could use your tongue or you could close your
lips and pucker your lips to get a pucker style look at that little black dot there.
Now can I make that the size of this whole not to go into the other hole.
Yes I can.
And can you try it on hold one.
Have a go.
You should be listening for a nice clear sound.
Have a go.
Should some like this
I'm still trying to connect.
I want to go to my head
still connected.
Oh.
You can see how the opening and closing changes the sound come to you.
Oh.
Perhaps the ego eared people will hear the harmonics changing as you open it.
You can hear the.
Oh.
So.
And it changes the texture of the sound somewhat by opening and closing not just not just extra volume
although that's part of it.
So if you have a say if you hear two notes it's going to sound this and you want to just close your
lips away but it.
Until you can personally hear that there's only one clear sound.
So you might want to pause and just practice that just now.
If you are happy with that let's go on and try different holes.
That was a whole one that's true for
much holiday.
Have a go.
Now if you hear three kicking in.
You have to adjust this side of your mouth.
And if you hear five kicking in.
So it's very much up to you to play it listen to it analyze what you're hearing and just see if you
can learn to control your mouth.
Not easy.
You've got so many muscles 40 muscles I'm told all jumping around in here very hard to control them.
So one way of getting these single notes is with the lips.
We call it the puckering method.
Pursed lips style a kissing method and that's good.
It's good for playing fast
and makes note bending easier I think
for me personally anyhow and it gives you a very good response with the reeds.
So I think you should learn to play puckish style as well as tongue block style.
But that's what we come into tomorrow so don't worry about sunblock for a minute just concentrate on
getting this pucca style and you can play any piece of music you want to play.
You can play either pucca style or toung blocked or what I do is I mix the whole lot up so I just see
them as tools in the tool bag and I use if I'm playing a bit of blues I might want to do it more tongue
block style.
There might be elements of puckering elements of Tumba I might play.
So the first note you heard that was pocket and the rest of it was all tongue about.
So I think you just learn both and you mix it up.
So learn to play the poker stars right now.
You could try by playing all 20 notes a good bit of practice for you.
So there's a nice little exercise play from one to ten breathing out and then from ten to one breathing
in Trinder in rhythm.
And finish it with a chord because it sounds more musical.
And we're trying to play music aren't we.
Do you remember that.
OK.
Enjoy that practice this pucca style.
And tomorrow we'll look at Tom block style.
Ok bye for now.