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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:54 pm    Post subject: Mendez's tonguing Reply with quote

Mendez had a slow single tongue so he developed his double tonguing which was very fast. My question is many teachers agree that you should have a strong single tongue in order to deveop good multiple tonguing. What does it mean by "strong" single tongue? I guess strong has little to do with speed. How does one judge whether he or she has a strong single tongue?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Somewhere or other, I had heard the exact opposite about Mendez. I guess one or the other has to be true....
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mendez had a very slow single tongue as a kid. His father taught him how to double tongue early on. This formed the basis of his easy and fluent double tonguing.

The recording of Arban's single tongue exercises were Mendez' greatest feat (he thought). He found them much more difficult than any of his solos.

As for the question about "strong," strong = good.

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