Author: Johan H Nilsson
Date: 2014-04-20 21:31
I have practiced double-tonguing occasionally for 5-6 months.
Pino's brush-the-tip-of-the-reed technique is doubtful in my mind. There is nowhere in normal talk that the tongue does that movement. When you say tiki-tiki-tiki or tili-tili-tili you actually use different parts of the tongue. At most, I have managed to tongue 16ths at 120. The good thing is that the technique can be used in altissimo.
I am single-tonguing at 145 (16ths, 4/4, at least two bars) and improving.
The taka-taka (or whatever) method works better, at least for short bursts, like in the William Tell overture finale. There, I can manage 165 instead of 150 with single-tonguing. My problem is that the tongue makes a too long stroke, so I cannot double-tongue longer passages rapidly. The high clarion and altissimo are also difficult, or to be honest impossible, at least at the moment.
Training can do wonders so I will continue.
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