Author: vboboe
Date: 2008-01-29 01:49
<<I really have to remind myself to tongue. Years playing Irish whistle(where tonguing is rare) and bagpipes-(not possible) ornaments are used instead, have made me forget that it is done on other instruments>>
Yes, important diff between oboe and piping/whistling; when playing Celtic genre on oboe i have to remind myself NOT to tongue
on classic oboe, those little grace notes gotta go, no blips or hiccups with other notes in between, it's a combo of cleanly co-ordinated fingering and tonguing
With tonguing it isn't easy learning to isolate and use just a flickering edge of tongue tip on the reed instead of thwacking it with the tongue
Book 2 Essential Elements 2000 edition has a section in the back Individual Study as well as more Rubank Scale & Arpeggio Studies also found in Book 1
These offer some extra exercises to develop breath control, range, arpeggio fingering, slurs, tonguing challenge, etc. Is this the same edition you're using? If not, are these sections in your edition?
Agree with hautbois about developing musical artistry, and it's very important, but at a practical level i do think this is something that usually has to wait until basic techniques are fairly fluent already. By then, students are probably showing more of their own heart and soul simply because they're able to play more fluently.
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