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Re: Lightening Up My Tongue

Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2006-05-22 09:35

Alan Vogel mentioned strongly in his article about the different schools of playing where he was taught in the French school to focus on the intensity of air, and practising quarter tones with the tongue moved as far back as possible (opening up the mouth cavity and encouraging awareness of tongue muscle usage). When optimum speed is achieved in tonguing on single quarter tones with the tongue as far back as possible (which many will discover the distance between the tongue and the tip of the reed will shorten with the increase of speed.) and when the intensity of the air is built up one goes back to long tones with the same intensity. It was also mentioned that these 2 basic factors were to be how every oboists should have started with if haven't.

I found the exercise enormously helpful for me in improving tongue speed, tone, and most importantly, articulation possibilities -> lightness of tongue, because once air is not obstructed the reed can vibrate and tongue technique can be certainly be varied largely to suit the articulation needed. It also fits logically for me as of how it relates in this long and fruitful discussion.

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