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Re: Tonguing tips

Author: smross
Date: 2006-12-14 17:05

Katrina,

The marker trick I do is as follows. I take a crayola (non-toxic) marker of a color like blue or green, and mark a small part right at the tip of the reed. Then, I immediately play a short passage that involves tonguing and then remove the mouthpiece from my mouth. Then you can look in the mirror and see where your tongue is hitting the tip of the reed. It's quite fascinating.

Skygardener and Ohsuzan,

My tonguing has actually improved (to my ear) over the past few days just keeping several of these tips in mind. Maybe I misspoke in saying that my staccato was better off than my legato. I have noticed I use "puffs" of air when doing staccato at a slow speed (of course there's no time for puffs at a faster tempo), but I'm not sure how to retain a very steady column of air without making the notes so short that they have no resonance or life.

I can definitely play the Mozart passages under one big slur. Fingers/technique are usually not a big problem for me. My setup is as follows: Buffet Festival, Backun "fatboy" cocobolo barrel, Greg Smith 1++ mouthpiece, with Vandoren V-12 3.5 or Rico GCE 3.5.

Thank you guys so much! I appreciate your help.

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