Author: salzo
Date: 2010-01-20 16:36
How do you do it?
When I was in college, everyone would say "Just roll your Rs". Well, I could never roll my Rs. A friend of mine was a speech therapist, she would try and casually show me how to do it, I could never get it. I get by doing it with a kind of "grrrrr" in the throat. It sounds OK, but I would never get up and play the Berg five pieces. Flutter tonguing is not something I have to do all that often, but I did play the Eb part in the Ravel piano concerto last year, and I really sweated on that one(I kind of squawked on the first one, but after that I survived-barely).
The other night I was driving home, and somehow I was rolling my Rs! I have never been able to do that, but it was working that night driving home in my car. For a half hour I rolled away, very excited that I finally figured it out after forty years. Of course, when I picked my horn up the next morning, I forgot how I was doing it the night before. As I am typing this post, I am trying to do it-I think it is in the memory hole.
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