Author: metalheadsimon
Date: 2011-04-16 20:25
Rachel,
Instead of touching the tip of the reed with the tip of the tongue, you position the tip of the tongue behind your bottom lip, then move the tongue in an up and down motion to stop the reed using a further back part of the tongue.
From what i have found, there is less room for error than tip for tongue and you have to be a lot more accurate, however for me this works providing clean and accurate and fast articulation. As your tongue arches further back as you ascend into the higher registers, this provides less room between the reed and the part of the tongue used during anchor tonguing, however by altering the angle of which the clarinet is with the body slightly, you can provide more room, and therefore the same quality can be produced.
Its only become a point of interest as my teacher and i have been trying to work on my tonguing speed and to do this we needed to figure out what was going on inside my mouth. I was surprised to find that a fair few of my fellow students, out of 15 of us there were 6 that positioned the tongue behind the bottom lip
Hope this is of help and of interest
Simon Cowton
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