Klarinet Archive - Posting 000588.txt from 2005/03

From: "Zornow, Claudia" <claudia.zornow@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Tonguing and Torino
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:24:50 -0500

Joseph Wakeling wrote:

> Any advice on some nice techniques to help build both speed and
> tongue-finger coordination?

There's a good exercise in Peter Hadcock's "The Working Clarinetist."
You play a repeated note eight times (2 sets of 4 sixteenths) and
then play a scale, slurred, starting on that note, with the notes
at the same speed (sixteenth notes, whatever tempo you choose).
So if you start on a C, you would play CCCC CCCC CDEFGABC.

Then you play the same thing again but this time tongue every note,
including the scale. For some reason this helps to get the
synchronization of tongue and fingers going.

Claudia

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