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Re: Help With "Spitty" sounding tonguing

Author: nellsonic
Date: 2017-07-31 03:35

There are some nice things about your playing - good clear tone, smooth sounding finger motion, etc. You need to consistently push more air through the clarinet to even out the response between registers. Some people conceptualize this as always maintaining a fast air speed.

In regards to the tonguing you are likely either letting too much of the tongue touch the reed and/or are tonguing too low on the reed. Try using a "tee" syllable and be sure the very tip of the tongue is touching just below the very tip of the reed. This should help to create a cleaner articulation sound. Very little tongue pressure is required when you do this correctly.

Practice for consistency on repeated notes on an open G and then gradually move up and down the range of the instrument. It will require some patience but it should be clear pretty quickly if you are on the right path.

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