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Fredrick
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Does anybody have any tips on how to improve/quicken tounguing? Right now I'm playing in a ridiculously fast piece (maybe not so fast, just faster than I can toungue) and I'm not doin' so swell.
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JOhnlovemusic
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As Zoom suggested there is the double and triple tonguing method. It has worked welll for years.
Also, think about this; pull your tongue away from your teeth rather than pushing your tongue into your teeth. To get an idea of what this is get a friend or family member and take your fist and hit them in the arm. Do it a couple of times (not too hard) and get a feeling of what your arm muscles are doing. When you have done that then do this . . . .
Barely, tough them on the arm - like a martial artists. You are going to hit the arm very very lightly; barely tough it But with the same speed and intensity as you were hitting when your were pushing your fist into the arm. This time you are pulling away.
Tha tis the way to tongue really reallly fast.
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ekdavies
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The surest way to improve your tonguing is to exercise the tongue and experiment to see what variations might help. The simplest set of exercises are some major scales - although to avoid boredom its worth playing some minor ones and not sticking to the easy ones. You'll probably find that after a week or so of 10 minutes per day on scales your precision and speed will have noticeably improved.
When you reach the point that a week's practice isn't producing any improvement, then you'll probably also be quite a good player with a very good teacher who can listen and decide whether its worth refining your technique.
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Fredrick
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A: It's at just a tempo that I should be able to toungue it regularly, and my double/triple tounguing doesn't sound the greatest, anyway. I think I'll work on that here soon, but not on this piece.
Thanks for posting!
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rona910
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The easiest (and simplest way) to get the fast tonguing is just to start below tempo and work up. There's no magic spell for quick tonguing, you've just got to get the technique right. Whenever I get something like that (if double or triple-tonguing isn't an option) I just get the metronome out and play the passage over and over again (as in, sometimes for a whole practice), increasing the tempo by a beat each time until I reach the right tempo. Have fun! 
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TrumpCard
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Practice. Practice. Practice.
And also, in your free time, when you think about it, say the tonguing syllables under your breath.
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