Originally Posted by screamingmorris

Many of us who received our training from 5th grade band teachers 35 years ago were taught *terrible* tonguing techniques, such as sticking our tongues *through* the embouchure aperture.
Buy the time we learned that was wrong, we had already been doing it that way for many years and it was virtually impossible to stop doing it that way.
For that reason my regular tonguing still sounds *terrible*, so I resort to legato tonguing to soften the sound of it quite a bit.
Fortunately, legato tonguing sounds better for the type of music I play anyway.

- Morris