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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000066.txt from 2007/01

From: "Grace Tice" <gtice@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] double tonguing
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:08:11 -0500

hmmmm, maybe I've been doing it all wrong! It's not scientific theory on my
part, but I think that the idea of just sitting around practicing tonguing
in general helped me. I don't know that I have ever focused so intensely on
that topic for so long. It was bound to help in some way, right? Leave it
to me to be backwards from everyone else :-)
Grace
----- Original Message -----
From: <BssnRX@-----.com>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [DR-L] double tonguing

> In a message dated 1/4/2007 11:29:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> gtice@-----.com writes:
> <<While practicing DT,
> my single tonguing got significantly faster and that seems to be a lasting
> side benefit. I'll take it!
> Grace>>
>
> That's funny. When Matt Ruggiero had me start DT my single tongue got
> pathetically slow. I used to be able to ST for short bursts at 160. Now
> I'm happy if
> its 126-132. LOL
> I do remember that Matt taught one should practice DT for no longer than a
> few minutes at a time when stating and build endurance from there.
> Jim
>

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