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ICA Article

Author: Tyler
Date: 2005-06-10 04:00

In the latest edition of The Clarinet magazine for ICA members, there is an article about a different way of tonguing which I could hardly begin to comprehend. I don't know if it is the way I was reading it, or the way it was written, but I couldn't make sense of it. It talked about some sort of 'side-action tonguing' in conjunction with 'breath pulsating' and 'jaw-wagging'. It was very interesting, but I simply couldn't make out what exactly it was instructing people to do. Has anyone else read this article and understood it? Could you elaborate please? Thank you very much.

-Tyler-

Post Edited (2005-06-13 02:58)

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Re: ICA Article

Author: William
Date: 2005-06-10 23:43

I read it too and tried "wagging" on my bass clarinet last evening with absolutely no success. Must have missed something as well..................

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Re: ICA Article

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-06-13 14:06

It's in the article on Keith Stein's teaching methods and describes an unusual method of double tonguing, which Stein perfected but which practically no one else uses, or has been able to use.

Stick out the tip of your tongue and put it as far as possible in one corner of your mouth.

Then slide the tip horizontally back and forth from one corner of your mouth to the other.

Then move your tongue back slightly and do the same thing, brushing the tip against the tip of the reed in the middle of each side-to-side motion.

Stein played with a double lip embouchure and with his jaw very low. Perhaps that helped.

Good luck.

Ken Shaw

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Re: ICA Article

Author: Tyler
Date: 2005-06-13 16:58

Interesting...thank you Ken for your explanation. It's unfortunate that I don't have time to practice such a seemingly impractical method. I think I'll stick to pushing my single tongue tempos...which, by the way, I would like to get consistently over quarter=144, but seem to be stuck where I am at almost indefinitely sustaining quarter=120. Any ideas there? I'm being as light as I can (I think)...and fast air...but can't use large VOLUMES of air or I get tongue-tied.

Thanks for the elaboration.

-Tyler

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