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To all you fast tonguers

Author: Aussie Nick
Date: 2002-07-30 12:57

I am curious as to whether professional players (who can tongue fairly quickly - single tonguing) ever used to struggle with the speed of their tonguing back in their university/college days. My teacher says repeated note scales are what helped him build his up, and I'm doing these but have not been able to get faster than semiquavers (16th notes) at 112 or 116. I would like to know what others recommend also. In my lesson a few days ago, we were doing the Mendelssohn Midsummer Nights Dream Scherzo and I played it really quickly and better than I ever have before just out of the blue at about 84 or 88...and he said "thats it! we've got it" then after the lesson I went to do it again, and my tongue slowed down again and I couldn't get the same character to the excerpt that I had earlier. Sorry if I am rambling. Any suggestions?

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