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Re: Lightening Up My Tongue

Author: GMac
Date: 2006-05-12 17:54

I have been working on this problem with my playing for 2 years now! Here's what worked for me...

1) Using the syllable 'dah' for articulation
2) Doing 'peeping' exercises a lot. Basically peeping is doing air attacks as soft as possible and seeing how little sound you can make. Basically it makes you realize that it really takes almost zero effort to make a reed vibrate. Once you get a hang on that, try to get the same sort of attack but with using your tounge, and with the realization that you hardly need to touch the reed to get it to vibrate.
3) Playing *s*l*o*w* scales, all tounged, and put as little effort as you possibly can into the tounging. Even if you don't actually re-articulate some notes at first, that's OK, just focus on using as little effort as possible. Keep your tounge close to the reed and use as little motion as possible!

For me, doing those three things has really sped up my single tounge and has made playing much easier in general.

Graham

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