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Help me untie my tongue-tied tonguing

Author: JonTheReeds
Date: 2016-12-29 16:11

I've been playing clarinet for 6 years now. I have always had a problem with tonguing quickly. Periodically I have concentrated on tonguing practice but have never made any progress beyond 4 notes to a beat, 96 beats to a minute, which was pretty much my speed when I first picked up the clarinet

In October I decided to really focus on this aspect of my technique as it is holding me back in so many ways and I'm starting to look to a Diploma. I've been practising tonguing every practice since then, trying different approaches, different amounts of mouthpiece, trying to relax the tongue or tense it up, dotted rhythms etc.

Almost 3 months later I'm still at 4 notes a beat, 96 beats a minute! I don't know what to do - whether that's it, 96 beats a minute is as fast as it'll get; or if I just need to keep at it and one day I'll have a breakthrough; or if I need another approach; or if I should just say @#*! it and learn double tonguing

I think that the main frustration is that there's been no improvement in almost 3 months

Any help to save my sanity (and relations with neighbours!) would be gratefully appreciated

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