Author: seabreeze
Date: 2021-12-13 23:12
Anatomically, flutter tonguing and double tonguing are not at all the same. Clarinetists who can double tongue may have difficulty flutter tonguing and clarinetists who can flutter tongue may have difficulty double tonguing.
The speed of double tonguing can be consciously controlled. The virtuoso trumpet player Raphael Mendez on The Virgin of Macarena used to do the equivalent of a drum roll increasing in speed from very slow to machine-gun rapidity--all with double-syllable articulation! taaaakaaaa-taaakaaa, taaa-kaaa-taaa-kaaa, taakaa-taakaa, taka, taka, tk, tk, tk, tk etc, faster and faster. He did this by willfully speeding up the alternation time between front syllable to back syllable. Like speeding up the right and left drum sticks in a drum roll. The Resnick and DeLutis videos show this property of double tonguing pretty well.
Flutter tonguing is very different. The player sets the tongue in a certain position, and pushes air out as the tongue passively accepts a single syllable (dooh for example) and just "rattles in the wind." The player does not have the same direct control over the speed of the flutter or rattle that they would have in double tonguing. The fluttering just happens as an artifact of the "sweet spot" made by convergence of tongue position, single syllable, and exactly the right air pressure.
Double tonguing is a very conscious effect--all active, not passive. The player controls every aspect of it. Flutter tonguing is something that happens of its own accord when the player provides the right conditions. I'm not sure anyone can make flutter tonging speed up or slow down or do a drum roll effect with it. But they can make it louder or softer or more or less nasty sounding.
On the clarinet, most players have to practice double tonguing for a long period before the results are anything like musical. Persistence is required for maybe a year or more. Also the higher the pitch, the harder it is to double tongue. In the altissimo it might never work well for most players.
Post Edited (2021-12-14 07:40)
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