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Re: Fast Articulation Tips

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2021-12-05 16:11

So the standard advice is to say that you should "lighten up" on the tongue and articulate the air more.

I have have a chronically slow tongue (and I've come to believe most clarinet players with a burning desire to be much better than the level they seem to be able to achieve suffer from this issue) and therefore to get most of the "standard" repertoire within workable technique I have moved to double tonguing. I also modify the standard advice on double tonguing in that rather than using a standard "tongue-on-reed" for the "TEE," I tongue both the "TEE" (tip of tongue) and the "KEE" (further back on the tongue) on roof of the mouth. This is because there is a drastic air speed fluctuation between the tongue position for "on-the-reed" vs. further back and on the roof of the mouth that negatively effects the upper register.

And........

Yes, the faster you go, the more subtle the "definition" of the articulation gets. You actually wind up just modulating the air speed rather than causing a "full stop" as you would placing the tongue on the reed in a slower, more defined staccato.

Here is the very best video on double tonguing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoInFr4b8kQ

Please note where he says it will sound to you as if you are NOT articulating, but when you listen back on a recording, you'll hear the definition between the notes.

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

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