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 Re: Lightening Up My Tongue
Author: ohsuzan 
Date:   2006-05-14 03:29

Stephen --

Yes, my teacher is the one who brought up my tonguing issue.

As nearly as I can tell, there are two components to my problem -- and the second is more the culprit than the other.

First, it appears that I have not been "blowing through" my articulations, which destroys any attempt at creating a musical line.

Second, the reason I am not blowing through is because I am stopping the air with my tongue too heavily. I have been going at it with a sledgehammer, when what I need is a tackhammer, to create an analogy.

I guess another way of saying this is that I have had the balance between tongue and wind too heavily weighted toward the tongue, and not enough toward the wind. Light tonguing to me feels like just a little flick -- it doesn't seem like it is going to be "enough", but when I listen to what I sound like with this light tonguing, it clearly is enough, and is much better than what I was doing before.

Just another bad habit to overcome, and a new one to learn. And I have found out that I can double tongue now, too! Bonus!

Susan
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