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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2002-03-08 12:28
Can you roll your r's as they do in Spanish? Or imitate a cat purring? If not, try making an "r" sound and then curling your tongue up just a little more toward the roof of your mouth until it starts fluttering. Then do it with your clarinet, but with out voicing the sound; i.e., without using your vocal chords.
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Author: jez
Date: 2002-03-08 17:23
If you can't roll the front of your tongue, as Don suggests, (I can't) try pushing the back of the tongue up against the palate and push the air through, more like the way they do in French. I know players who use both systems, but I suspect the front is best.
If you can't do either I've heard it suggested that if you sing a note slightly different than the one you are playing you get a flutter effect from the interference, though I find this hard to do.
Practise low down at first, then gradually move upwards. It gets hard to control the pitch as you get higher. Keep plenty of pressure in the breath as the embouchure seems to lose some control.
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Author: Jean Adler
Date: 2002-03-08 20:06
I've come to the conclusion there are those of us who can do it, and those who can't. None of the students where I a am going to college know how. I think the technique that works best for me is the cat imitation.
There is a clarinet book called Aria by Richard Stoltzmann of It Ain't Necessarily So that has flutter tonguing in it. Very cool arrangement.
Good luck....for a fun affect flutter tongue while playing a minor third. It sounds like a siren in London.
Jean
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Author: Sally Gardens
Date: 2002-03-09 02:39
And now I wonder why I never before tried to flutter tongue; I can roll those rrrrrrr's to the point of parody. Comes in handy for speaking Spanish and singing Italian, too.
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