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Old 03-09-2008, 01:38 PM   #9 (permalink)
jdostie
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Re: double/triple-tounging

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Originally Posted by BlackWhite View Post
I would recommend learning triple tounging first.If you learn double first,it would be difficult to learn triple later.
But it's all the same as long as you do it right.
I had friend who didn't practice it properly and ended up learning flutter tounge!
I have always found it difficult to triple tongue . . . at any speed, it's too easy to switch back to touble tonguing - I think because it's simple alternation between tu ku, when triple tonguing, if I am not super deliberate (and even if I try to be and speed up slightly it comes out tu tu ku tu tu ky tu ku tu ku (catch myself) tu tu ku tu ku tu tu tu ku, you get the idea.

My plan for this in my comeback journey is going to be "singing" some exercieses or tunes starting right now . . . Of course the exercises in Arban's and anything else my teacher thinks is appropriate, but that makes the most sense to me. Outloud pronouncing at the pitch I want will allow a certain level of multitasking - without concentrating in intonation, articulation, embouchure set, amount of pressure, etc.
Work on the pieces seperately and then introduce them together.

It works with playing piano, first left hand very slow, then right hand very slow, then together very slow, then addition of pedal, making any adjustments, and then slowly bringing up to speed . . . The same concept should work for triple tonguing.
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