Bloomin Untidy Musician

Hello Andrew, sorry to bore you with yet another articulation question. But after years of doing it wrong, i determined to get it right.
Do you single tongue the same syllable right across the your registers or do you change it? I have been told to use the tee tongue in the high,taa in the middle and toh in the bottom register. But i have found that using the "tee" tongue in the high has significantly reduced my single tongue speed.
Earlier today i read a post by Manny Laureano on this and he tells his students to tongue the same syllable throughout the registers. I had a go at this for 2hours today and found a massive improvement, although increased mpiece pressure (possibly down to it being new to me).
Is this a standard way of single tonguing? Or should i continue to patiently working using my other teacher's method. Sometimes technique information can be so varied and different that you do not know what to believe.

Bloomin Untidy Musician

Andrew I should have mentioned, Manny gets his students to use the "Toh" articulation.

amtrpt

Hi,
It's an interesting question and honestly not something that I have thought about a whole lot. First of all be sure that you aren't confusing articulation with tounge position. I try to keep my articulation the same through out the registers. However the syllables that I think of when playing do change depending on the register I'm playing in. For instance if I am playing the upper register I try to think of a more eeh syllable. This helps me to keep my tounge a bit higher and gets the air moving faster. When I'm playing in the low register I want a much more open syllable like aah to keep the tounge relaxed and down so that the air can move at a more relaxed pace. Just be sure not to confuse the two ideas. For me they are quite separate.
I hope that is helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
Andrew

Bloomin Untidy Musician

Firstly, many thanks Andrew for answering my question.
The main thing that i am trying to achieve is a nice clean, relaxed single tongue in the high register. I have no problems when it comes to slurring in the high register. On my bucket mouthpiece I can play up to about a top F with little pressure, and an A at a push. However as soon as i put a tongue behind it, tongue and throat tension kicks in, causing extra mpc pressure.
I have come to the conclusion that i am over arching, and tensing my tongue in the high register which is closing my throat. Have you got any ideas, specific exercises or a particular trumpet method that might help to relax and open up my articulated notes in the top register?
Once again my sincere thanks for your time.

Regards

B.U.M.