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Double tonguing

Author: JonTheReeds
Date: 2019-10-08 00:21

Finally, after almost 8 years I've given up on trying to improve my single tonguing speed, which hasn't appreciably increased since I started focusing on it 6 years ago. What settled my mind was playing recently with a great player who had phenomenal tonguing. I asked him for any tips and he said that he could never single tongue quick enough, wasn't worried about it, and just learnt double tonguing. Unfortunately I didn't ask him at the time to give me some tips!

I've been looking on Youtube and think I understand the basic technique, using D-G, but when I vocalise the G sound I get a nasty guttural sound and it stops the air flow, which doesn't sound nice, and doesn't contribute to good playing

Does anyone have some advice on this? I appreciate that some will say I should concentrate on single tonguing, but I'd rather move on. My teacher spent a lot of time working on it with me, I've spent lots of time practising it, and I haven't made any progress (I started 6 years ago at 4 notes at about 80bpm, and I'm pretty much still at that level, perhaps 88 or 92bpm on a good day but I've never, ever, managed 100bpm). If I'd even had some progress over the years I'd persevere, but nada!

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