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Author: ClaRiNeT_CaNdY
Date: 2003-09-13 08:21
how do you tongue fast enough? i can tongue my semi quavers quite well, but when its like combined with songs, like two notes slur, two notes tongue, i cant seem to tongue it clearly. i don't know whether its the fingering c0s it's frm B to c# (quite difficult) and it probably blurred my tonguing or what. Any advice?
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2003-09-13 08:49
You probably need to work on your airstream. From what you say, it sounds like you might be pushing the notes out with your tongue. Imagine a column of air ringing through to the furthest finger you have down on the clarinet. Then imagine your tongue as a gate that is either open or closed. To start a note, take your tongue off the reed, thus opening the gate. If your mouth "helps" the note out, the tonguing is bound to be slow.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: theclarinetist
Date: 2003-09-13 17:01
I agree with Alex's advice... When explaining tonguing to my students, I often use the example of a hose with the water on full blast and your finger as the reed. This helps explain tongue return easily... The main focus of this example is to stress blowing the whole time and not moving your chin, just your tongue. It is true that faster air facilitates faster fingers (at least in my experience).
I know this is going to sound overly obvious, but maybe just practice from slow to fast. Start with the metronome on 50 or 60, and tongue a few beats of 16th notes on open G or something (you can make whatever rhythm you want... 8th, 16th, 16th or straight 8ths or whatever) then slowly move up the metronome until you are the desired speed. After you get the tongue sped up sufficiently, you can start again and do it while change notes. Maybe start with low notes (CDEFGFEDC) then move up higher when that's easy. Tonguing high notes is more difficult, so make sure to not neglect practicing them as well.
When working on tonguing or technique, it's also better to start slowly and gradually increase the speed than to just try to go fast from the start.
Hope this is a little helpful,
Don Hite - theclarinetist@yahoo.com
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-09-14 10:43
The tongue is primarily a muscle or muscle group. It needs to be trained like any other muscle group, ie. with a combination of repitition and rest, in other words calisthenically. After speed has been achieved musicality needs to follow.
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-09-14 16:07
I have always found in the last 20 years of teaching a common problem is many students are playing on a reed far too hard/soft for his/her set up.
What this means is the air thats going through the clarinet will then in turn be diminished due to resistance or lack of resistance. Instead, seek a medium reed that is responsive and allows for easy and relaxed tip tongueing.
There is an excellent approach to this in the Bonade Clarinetist Compendium publiished by our good freinds at Leblanc.
Seek the advice or lessons from an experience pro or teacher who is well versed in the difficult aspect of teaching articulation.
Good Luck!!
David Dow
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