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Re: Growth to expect in tonguing speed

Author: ceeslaw
Date: 2019-03-24 02:28

Thanks for your comments, Paul! I'm trying tip-to-tip, and it's about as easy/difficult as anchor tonguing is for me at this early stage, so if I'm not in a position where I have to use anchor tonguing (due to a big tongue or suchlike), I'm going to try to phase it out. My teacher is under the impression that many people's tongues are too big for a real tip-to-tip articulation, so that's her logic for recommending anchor tonguing, but if I don't have to I'll try to develop the more "vetted" route, on the hope that I can develop more speed this way. And I share your suspicion that some of us are just not genetically blessed with speed, so I'm keeping double tonguing on my mind, for the near future if not right now.

Any thoughts from others re: whether your speed was there from the start or if it developed throughout your beginning years continue to be welcome.

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