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Re: tounging

Author: 2E
Date: 2006-08-13 11:16

You M U S T train yourself how to tongue! Its awesome once you can do it with technical accuracy and no Im not there yet either haha. Although it can be distracting, tonguing is a clarinet technique that is used in absolutely everything. I know of some passages that are very difficult if not impossible to play NOT tongued. You should train yourself to just start notes with your tongue - long tones and then scales and then passages from simple pieces. After youve mastered tonguing that way, practise staccato tonguing and if you want to get really tricky try DOUBLE TONGUING! :P

Dont think of tonguing as a distraction, think of it as another basic technique like your fingerwork. This might even help you co-ordinate the two, good luck!

2E

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