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tonguing

Author: goods
Date: 2007-03-06 20:06

I have had a very hard time trying to increase my tonguing speedness.
Can you please provide me with some tips or ideas.

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Re: tonguing

Author: Fontalvo
Date: 2007-03-06 20:13

There are some good threads on this. Do a search. I remember reading about this in the past.

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Re: tonguing

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2007-03-06 21:17

One quick suggestion is to try the Bonade "prepared fingers" exercise. Play a scale or selected passage VERY slow, each note very short, after one note switch fingers to next note QUICKLY....then play next note short, etc. When you switch fingers, this movement can be exaggerated in finger height as well as force (slightly) so you get a jerky movement. This will reinforce muscle memory and in this case coordination with tongue muscle memory. Kinda goes like this: boop........jerk.........boop...........jerk......etc.

Might help to keep in mind that the articulation of a note is really just the release of the tongue off the reed, really quite the opposite from "striking" the reed with the tongue.

................Paul Aviles

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