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Re: Speed

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2011-09-16 19:02

I've tried several times to learn T-K and TEE-KEE double tonguing, with absolutely no success. I can start the tone with the KEE, but if I tongue TEE and then KEE, the pressurized air in my mouth keeps the tone going, so that the KEE doesn't register at all.

Perhaps the secret is keeping your tongue close to the roof of your mouth, but somehow I've never been able to do that.

I've perfected Pino's TUTTLE http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Study/DoubleTonguing.html on the recorder (on which I think DIDDLE, following Quantz's instructions) but haven't been able to transfer it to clarinet. Like TEE-KEE, the air in my mouth keeps the tone going and makes the DLE part inaudible.

Neil Leupold has some good instructions http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Study/TongueFaster.html.

Every bassoonist learns to double tongue, because the fast solo from the finale of the Beethoven 4th is on every audition list. Arthur Weisberg, in The Art of Wind Playing http://www.amazon.com/ART-WIND-PLAYING-Arthur-Weisberg/dp/1574630849/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1316198919&sr=8-2, admits that it's not perfect on any reed instrument.

It's possible to tongue with a TUH just back of the tip of your tongue, bounce off the reed and pull your tongue back quickly so that the tip flips past the tip of the reed with a DUH. James Collis perfected this and called it the "rebound" staccato." I know one of his students, who can effortlessly pump out staccato 16ths off the top end of the metronome. I find it easy to do a single rebound. The difficult part is to get your tongue back in position to do the next one and even them out.

Keith Stein is said to have moved his tongue from side to side, touching the tip to the reed in both directions. I've never been able to do that.

Ken Shaw

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