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Author: mmatisoff
Date: 2021-05-23 18:48
I'm trying to play staccato on high altissimo C and D. Even when I practice them slowly, I can't get the tonguing right. No other notes are a problem. Any pointers?
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Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2021-05-23 19:57
When you say, "No other notes are a problem" - does this include notes above altissimo C and D?
Fuzzy
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2021-05-23 21:43
And depends on the type of staccato you are trying to achieve. The Bonade stop staccato is the gold standard for clear, bubbly sounds but that also requires a really fast tongue for fast passages. For that I double tongue not even touching the reed.
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: nellsonic
Date: 2021-05-24 01:20
Just be sure, are you talking about the first C and D above the staff or the ones an octave higher? (That first C is actually still in the clarion range). If you are talking about the ones an octave higher, are you playing even higher than that and not having issues?
Anders
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2021-05-24 03:12
If you mean C7 and D7, be sure you aren't changing embouchure or voicing (or air) a lot in an effort to sound the notes. Not only is that not necessary, but doing it relocates either the tongue or the reed, or both, which is liable to cause trouble with tonguing - either a miss, or too hard a hit, or touching the reed in a less responsive place, etc.
Try some intervals between some "good" notes and the "problem" ones. For example, octaves. Slur C6-C7-C6-C7, and see that you're keeping embouchure and tongue position and air as constant as possible. Try to make the high notes as resonant and sweet and full as the lower ones. Then tongue, several notes C6, several C7, etc. The only difference from slurring should be in the tip of the tongue.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2021-05-24 17:09
It "could" be in your throat, tightening it to much or raising or lowering your tongue too much. It's difficult to know why just those notes are a problem if not the ones below them. Concentrate of how you're tonguing the notes right below and then determine what changes when you move up.
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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