I have recently discovered the lovely art of double tounguing/triple...can someone PLEASE help??? I need it for the music I'm playing band class and I can't play diddly squat on double tounguing. I tried to just toungue it fast but holy crap...its 32nd notes in 6/8 time so I'm kinda screwed without double tounguing/triple. Some methods to work my way up there would be nice! Thanks! =D
As with any technique, start slow and gradually speed it up. It will take you some time to get it down, but practice is the only way to do so. You can incorporate double tonguing into your scales (or other technical exercises), and even speed up simple melodies to get some extra practice in. I would also suggest reversing the articulation (so that "kuh" or "goo" or whatever syllable you're using for the second stroke comes first). This will help even out the articulation and make both strokes more equal with regards to emphasis. Don't forget, you can practice double tonguing without a flute, so you might even get a little practice in walking from class to class, or while watching TV.
Try a piece that is all 16th notes. I like the 2nd mvt of the BAch C Sonata BWV 1033 but even a scale will work.
Play each note 4 times tktk then the 2nd note TKTK 3rd note tktk etc. THen play each note twice Tk Tk all the way through. Then once as written and double tongued. Do this every day for a few weeks, It doesn't have to be fast. Just clean and accurate. You can use a metronome and gradually bring up the tempo.
Also 1-tttt 2-kkkk 3-tttt 4-kkkk etc. on your scales. Make up your own excercises to work your Koo and your too until they are a bit tired every day.
If you toungue something using all "k's", isn't that tounguing with your throat? My music teacher would flip! lol. That's his main pet peeve. He can't stand it when people toungue with their throats. =)
Maybe it is similar but it is in the back of the mouth behind the tongue. The part of the tonguing when double toguing is the weaker part and this is why you can practice it a bit.
Learn your scales by double tonguing.
do it different ways with t's and k's.
Practice your studies with tonguing. You can tongue them even if they are written with slurs. The composers (probably) won't get you for it.
Bilbo is correct, as usual, I always slur passages then double tongue them, to give it the connected feel it needs, also helps to avoid the tension that will come with double tonguing done incorrectly
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