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Re: Double tonguing

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-10-08 07:19

I agree with your great player friend. There are those of us who are stuck with slow twitch muscles in our tongues and will never be fast enough to be competitive.

The "KEE" sound is really more of a "disturbance" of the air flow with a spot further back on your tongue rather than a full stop (at least that's how it turns out when you're moving at a good speed anyway). Part of the stumbling block for me in my first few years of double tonguing was having learned a very correct, Bonade/Marcellus single tonguing technique. That is, you treat the tongue on the reed as if it where the damper on the strings of a piano....in single tonguing. When you double tongue using a light almost "brushing" sort of approach to the "TEE" sound allows the "KEE" to be more fluid (responsive). In fact I have more success particularly in the clarion executing both "TEE" and "KEE" upon the roof of my mouth, leaving the reed out of it altogether !!!!!

Also, here is a GREAT 20 minute tutorial by one of the double tonguing gurus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoInFr4b8kQ

............Paul Aviles

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