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Author: Keil
Date: 2000-04-15 19:17
What are some excersises or books that have excersises that help to increase your tonguing speed? My goal for this year is to tongue my chromatic scale at MM= 160 these are quarter notes
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Author: Dee
Date: 2000-04-15 19:57
Get Daniel Bonade's "Clarinet Compendium". Learn precise and accurate tonguing at slow speeds and then speed it up. The key is learning the precise and accurate tonguing in the first place. Spend plenty of time on slow work before you gradually increase speed. Scales and arpeggios are good material to use as you don't have to worry about complex patterns. Do the drills to the metronome. Make sure that the current speed is clean and crisp before moving the metronome up to the next notch.
Be absolutely certain that only your tongue moves. There should be no jaw motion at all. Any jaw motion will just slow you down.
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-04-16 21:51
If you've been listening to Robert Springs's "Dragon's Tongue" CD while alternately drooling and despairing, also take a look at _Arban's_ for cornet and trumpet. The exact title varies with the edition. (It's been in print from Fischer, with some variations, since the 19th century.) The title of my copy is _Arban's Celebrated Tutors_. It's a huge paperbound book of exercises, easily available used, in several languages. The tonguing exercises mostly work on clarinet. They're first-rate for practicing double- and triple-tonguing. In fact, I think that for a clarinet player, the Arban exercises are almost as helpful as the Klose' exercises.
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Author: Tim2
Date: 2000-04-18 03:06
If you search the board, you will find that there are a set of tonging excercises written by Joseph Genna. Title is - "Clarinet Staccato - A Workbook for the Serious Performer" 17 pages long with the first 7 pages written words to be read before practicing. This has helped my tongue in speed. Had to stop for a while however. Will resume. Had it up to 126-132. That's terrific for me.
A good thing to have read and practice.
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