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Author: aerostyc
Date: 2011-04-15 00:44
Well, I'm currently playing a intermediate level concert piece, which requires me to double tongue approxmiately 104 bpm+
There's a whole page dedicated to this annoying rhythm of:
4 repeated sixteenth notes + Quarter + 4 repeated sixteenth notes + 2 eight notes.
I'm fairly fine with the fingerings and the sixteenth notes.
However, these notes require me to play on the (2nd C)2nd and (3rd C)3rd octave, whether if I'm double tonguing, I'm only such articulate with it on the 1st octave.
If I attempt to double tongue at the speed and as fluent and flowing as I can with this piece, I get mumbles of it instead. Basically meaning, not articulate at all.
Does anyone have any idea how to solve this fat-double-tonguing problem.
(More details: I can quite actually play the first 4 16th notes with a slight of success at doubling tonguing, but then as I progress, my embrochure gives up on this fiend and my cheeks puff out as I struggle D:)
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Author: Cupcake
Date: 2011-04-15 02:55
Well, at 104 bpm I would suggest single-tonguing. There is a tonguing exercise I have found to be helpful with my own playing.
Start by playing the rhythm " one and-a two and-a | one and two and | one-e-and-a two-e-and-a | one-two ." Start slowly, and increase your speed until you can no longer tongue it. At that point, cut it down to the first two measures, and increase the speed even more. Finally, play only the first measure, and tongue as fast as possible. Play the exercise in all registers.
I would guess that the problem with the double-tonguing is probably airspeed. Most people are taught to double-tongue with a Duh-Guh or Tah-Kah syllable. Notes in the clarion, however, will need to be pronounced with a Dee-Gee or a Tee-Kee to increase the airspeed.
I hope that this is helpful.
-Cupcake
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2011-04-15 03:10
At 104 bpm, there's no reason to double tongue. Why don't you tell us what piece you're working on. Chances are, someone here has played it and could give you a better idea of what to do to help you through this passage.
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Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2011-04-15 07:20
It is said that it is possible to double tongue on the Clarinet but very few apparently can actually do it and make it sound good.
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