| Re: Tonguing
The tongue is a very powerful muscle, and pound for pound, perhaps the strongest in the body. Strength doesn't automatically lead to endurance, however, and sometimes a new way of tonguing seems to give fantastic results for a few minutes. Try the Arban triple-tongue exercises, playing one after another until your tongue starts to revolt, then switch to the doble-tongue exercises. The tongue's strength can also work against us when we try to tongue "harder" to make the tonguing "cleaner." More often than not, relaxing the tongue, letting it "melt in our mouths" can improve our tonguing greatly. For me, the tongue behind the teeth is the quickest,most musical way to multiple tongue, although in practice Imight do something else, depending on the piece, the register, and volume.
Have fun!
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