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Author: clarinet_mike
Date: 2004-01-14 00:51
I have an honor band piece I've been working on for about a week now, in the III movement of it, basically the whole part is tounged sixteenth notes for a good 10 measures at a time at a tempo of 140. Obviously I've come to the conclusion that I need to double tounge, my problem is though I'm not sure on how to do it. I've heard some ways but weren't really helpful. Anybody have any suggests to help me out?
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Author: Tim2
Date: 2004-01-14 01:43
Enter the words "double tounguing" for a search here on the board and you will get a lot of help.
We had that problem when I was in school. We split ourselves (the clarinets) into two groups. One group played the four 16ths of beat 1 and beat 3 while the other half played the four 16th notes of beats 2 and beat 4. It worked real well. Our conductor was amazed at how clean it sounded. And no double tounging.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2004-01-14 03:09
One of the biggest problems that people have with tonguing fast is poor synchronization between fingers and tongue. Too many times the fingers lag the tongue because the subconscious mind thinks the tongue is slow and holds the fingers back. Then the faster you try to tongue, the worse it sounds. This in turn reinforces the subconscious thought that the tongue is at fault.
To see how fast you can really tongue, try tonguing the open G as fast as you can. Don't worry if you can only go fast for a few notes. If you can do it for a few notes, you can eventually build the stamina to do it measure after measure.
Now after the pleasant surprise of finding that you can tongue much faster than you originally thought, it is time to tackle the correct synchronization of tongue and fingers. There are two good drills for this and they should both be worked on. Drill one is to play very slow and focus on deliberately moving the fingers to the next note before you tongue it. This is very tedious but sets the proper pattern. It is finger the note then tongue the note. The second drill is to play fast tongued notes but do not think about your tongue movement. Instead focus on moving your fingers lightly but quickly and just let the tongue follow along. When you play a fast passage in a piece of music, focus on moving the fingers fast enough.
It's very difficult to make double tonguing sound as good as single, so it really pays off to max out your single tonguing ability.
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2004-01-14 17:35
Coordinating double-tonguing adds a whole new dimension of problems. I heard Rebecca Rischin of Ohio University play a year ago. Her advice was to start off slowly, playing scales, in the low register, double-tonguing each note. It will take a very stabile emouchure. For me, double-tonguing deforms my tone-production mechanism enough to make it near to impossible. Maybe there is a better way, but maybe also this is a problem for people like me with a narrow mouth and no tonsils.
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