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Author: Eh.Steve0
Date: 2008-09-17 02:33
(Hi. I'm a college freshman looking to improve his laborious tonguing. I realized my tonguing needs work after working on the Mendelssohn Scherzo for placement auditions.)
Would someone please recommend to me a method (book, part of a book, or just something to practice) to develope a light, fast tongue?
Thanks.
-Stephen Ian Savage-
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-09-17 02:48
As I've written a few times before -
Langenus - Part Three, exercises #11 and #12 (pages 22 and 23).
Do both pages every day for a month and you will notice a marked improvement in your speed.
After 6 months, your new, faster tonguing speed will be "locked in".
However, everyone (except Robert Spring) has an inherent finite point of progress. Eventually you will "hit the wall" and not be able to go any faster.
Work hard (every day) to sustain that final speed...GBK
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Author: DAVE
Date: 2008-09-17 03:36
You could also just tongue the Baermann book... the whole thing. I did this for an entire summer once and still do it now and then. It's great practice.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2008-09-18 02:49
What’s more important than what book you use is that you’re tonguing correctly to your best advantage. There are several past posts on the subject so check it out in some of the past posts. Your teacher needs to give you direction and help you tongue properly first. Once you get that help here a few ideas. Play an F major scale doing two 8th notes on each note, then a triplet, then four 16ths as lightly and evenly as possible on each note. Use a metronome at a setting you can just about do the 16th notes. Once you get to do that tempo comfortably move the metronome up a notch. After you get going on this begin to practice it in scale form, that is play the scale in 8th notes, then triplets, then 16th notes with the metronome doing the same thing. The idea is to play the 8th notes short and clean using a good light tongue stroke, then the triplets, not quit as short but also light and finally the 16th notes at your top speed but a speed you can play evenly for at least two octave. Eventually work it up to three octaves. The is no short cut and you have to tongue correctly, which can be a bit differently for different players so if you’re teacher can’t help you, you either have to experiment yourself or seek help else where. ESP www.peabody.jhu.edu/457
Listen to a little Mozart
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Author: Geirskogul
Date: 2008-09-18 04:12
When I started playing, my tonguing was horrible, with a lot of "combustion noise" on the beginning of every note (that's what my book, "The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing" calls it). Just recently, something has "clicked" and I can tongue without any noticeable noise at all. I think that I've simply learned to be "light" with the action.
Before this, I struggled with all different methods (in Tongue-Mouthpiece): Tip to tip, tip to 5-10mm down the face, top to face, tip to base (just past the lower lip), middle to base, bottom of tip to tip. I've settled on "bottom of tip to tip of the reed," just like when you're saying "too." As far as saliva goes, I still need to work that one out.
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