Klarinet Archive - Posting 000563.txt from 2001/11

From: Alexander Brash <mactrek@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Kabalewsky Overture to Colas Breugnon
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:25:19 -0500

Hi Everyone,
I've been working on the Kabalewsky Overture to Colas Breugnon for All
State in two weeks. I have the part learned pretty much cold, my problem is
the incessant tonguing of eight notes at half=138! This is just pushing my
current tongue speed limit as it is, and doing it for 5 minutes almost
non-stop is killing me. I know you that 2 weeks is hardly enough to time to
bring my tonguing up to the next level, but if anyone could reccomend a
"crash course" for me, I'd appreciate it. And yes, I have been practicing
scales tongued up and down, all of them, and I went through the Kell
Staccato Studies.

~Alexander

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