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Re: Fast Articulation Tips

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2021-12-07 00:19

Double tonguing alternates a frontal tongue stroke with a back tongue throat or glottal thrust. The syllables du-gu, tah-ka or gha-kuh are often used. To play evenly with this technique requires much practice on the back tongue throat phase. It is a challenge to get the gu, ka or kuh syllable as loud and distinct as the du, tah, or gha syllable.

Brass players and flutists routinely use multiple tonguing but it has been considered an "imported" technique on the clarinet. Martin Frost and Amaury Viduvier are known for having perfected double tonguing on the clarinet, and Nicholas Baldeyrou has an especially delicate and even touch with it.

Here are a few demonstrations of double tonguing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHzA3ArHar0

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michael+rusineck+double+tongue.

Martin Frost at one point double tonguing the Flight of the Bumblebee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQwQetKm2g.

The top and bottom alternation of the tongue is another technique, sometimes called the diddle-diddle, paint brush, or side swiping technique.

Post Edited (2021-12-07 01:01)

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