Klarinet Archive - Posting 000150.txt from 2001/10

From: "Laura ~*~aka~*~ Dante O;)" <cl.ob.fl.lm@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] flutter tonguing
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:27:04 -0400

I had a hard time learning to flutter tongue, and I'm still not very good at it. But I can do it. I started out by fluttering with out my mouthpiece in, and then I'd put the mouthpiece in while I was fluttering, and eventually I got to where I could do it normally. Fluttering tonguing is hard to learn (for some) but it's a lot of fun once you can do it! Good luck!
~Laura~

>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> "jess crawford" <akane12@-----.org>Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:45:05 -0400
> [kl] flutter tonguing
>Hello all--
>I'm a junior college student preparing for a spring clarinet recital. I
>would like very much to do Alban Berg's Vier Stucke, which my clarinet
>professor brought to me last year as a proposal. Unfortunately, while I can
>roll my R's as well as the next guy, I simply can't flutter tongue. Some
>people have suggested rolling at the back of the tongue instead of the
>front-- I have a much more difficult time doing that motion WITHOUT a
>mouthpiece in my mouth, and in my opinion the sound isn't quite as striking.
>Does anyone have any advice on alternate methods of learning this skill? I
>can't play the Berg without it.
>
>thanks :)
>
>* jess crawford
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>* jess's webpage: http://somethingsbegun.com/wicked
>
>
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