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Re: Double Tonguing

Author: oliver sudden
Date: 2009-04-12 09:15

"Right now, I'm thinking that the individual shape of our mouth or tongue determines whether or not a person will be successful at this."

It determines a lot of things, that's clear. It must surely make a difference if one player has a tongue that's pretty much straight while playing and another has a tongue that's curled up, for example.

I also can't use tktk effectively past the range Liam describes. (Although (or rather because!) it's not so clear an articulation, diddle works for me quite a bit higher and the 'scoop' effect is less. I haven't used the 'flip' effect as described upthread.)

I feel it's important to practise kkkk and ktkt as well as tktk - in fact sometimes ktkt can be more even for me. Certainly practising kkkk is what did the most for me. It's very tiring though. But on the upside that means you don't take up much time practising it. ;-)

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