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Re: Remediation of Back-of-Tongue-Motion During Articulation

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2014-08-30 23:58

Oh! I do understand "anchor tonguing." I'd just never heard it called "hinge tonguing" before.

I guess anchor tonguing could be involved. It's usually pretty easy to find out by just asking the student a couple of questions whether that's what he's doing. And some players (one of my early clarinet teachers who played in the Philadelphia Orchestra at the time) play very successfully that way.

Karem, I would ask what problems you hear in this student's staccato that indicates there's a problem. You mention speed, clarity and sound being affected, but what narrows the problem down to excessive "back-of-tongue-motion" rather than some problem farther forward where the tongue as contacting the reed or some movement in the embouchure itself?

Karl

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