Author: ChopinLiszt
Date: 2015-04-08 21:26
Recently, both my teacher and I have become aware of jaw movement in my tonguing. I've stood in front of a mirror watching myself play, and the chin movement looks similar to that of a staccato bassoon articulation. When I speed up my tonguing (sixteenth notes around 115), the chewing motion goes away. The movement seem to worsen when I'm playing in the upper clarion and altissimo registers, when I play staccato, or when I play accented. Although it is more subtle when I play unaccented and mezzo forte, it seems I can only get it to stop moving when I legato tongue open G. When I speed up and shorten my tonguing, the chin bobbing reappears.
To my knowledge, I'm tonguing in the proper way, contacting the reed with the middle of my tongue, but I'm obviously doing something incorrectly. Do you have any ideas as to why I do this, and more importantly, how to fix it?
Thanks!
Matthew
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