Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2020-07-25 00:12
BaconLord wrote:
> I’m currently putting the first about 3 cm of my tongue
> on the reed, so I get “wah” sounds when I try to
> articulate. Also it’s hard for me to feel what part of the
> tongue is touching the reed (aside from the middle of course).
>
You've put your finger on part of the problem - it's really hard to know what's touching the reed - how much of the tongue and where. Beyond a certain point it's guessing, and you can end up trying too hard to do it "right" and getting tongue-tied in the process. Try saying/singing a passage before you try to play it. Your articulation when you speak or sing is very close to what's needed. Use spoken articulation as a model to try to duplicate.
In my experience, the "wah" sound comes when you move your mouth (embouchure, jaw) in the process of tonguing. That's often because your tongue is moving too far or in a direction that forces your jaw to open. Or you may be pinching in the process of changing your tonguing process so that you have to open your mouth to relieve some of the pressure on the reed. Again, when you speak or sing, you naturally separate sounds with your tongue and it doesn't, I'm pretty confident, force jaw movement.
Tonguing against a clarinet reed is, of course, different in some ways from speech - the reed intrudes into the middle of your mouth so you aren't tonguing against the hard palate, which is why articulation on a clarinet presents, I think, unique problems. But the sensations are very similar.
Karl
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