Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-12-29 20:12
What has your teacher suggested, and what resulted when you tried it?
Sluggish tonguing often means too much effort is being put into it. Basic, IMO, is Ken's advice about articulating the reed while maintaining a steady air stream. Using the abdominal muscles to make separate puffs of air for each note will limit speed.
Moving your tongue too far from the reed takes extra time for it to get back - the closer you stay to the reed, the less time it takes to return. The limit on this is that if to keep your tongue motion short you also tense it, you'll wind up with offsetting results. The tongue needs to be non-rigid, but under control.
Trying to make a firm "attack," which generally means pressing your tongue *into* the reed before releasing it, slows things down. This can come from trying to use a "t" approach (ta, tee, to, tu). At speed the release of the reed needs to be done quickly and without extra pressure being applied first.
These are the three biggest culprits I've found in my own and my students' problems with articulation. I suspect you can get more speed than you are managing. But at the end of the discussion needs to come a recognition than some players have less natural dexterity with their tongues than others. Multiple tonguing has been developed by some players to compensate for their lack of speed with single strokes. But first, keep trying to increase your single-tongue speed.
Karl
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