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Jim
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| According to Mr. Gordon, what part of the tongue should arch when ascending into the upper register? Is it the middle portion? Where should the tip of the tongue rest while the arching is occurring? I've read some who advocate that the tip should rest behind the bottom incissors. If this is true, wouldn't this impede rapid tonguing? Jim |
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John Mohan
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On 2002-02-13 12:47, Jim wrote:
According to Mr. Gordon, what part of the tongue should arch when ascending into the upper register? Is it the middle portion? Where should the tip of the tongue rest while the arching is occurring? I've read some who advocate that the tip should rest behind the bottom incissors. If this is true, wouldn't this impede rapid tonguing? Jim
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Just say the word "sea". This is exactly the way the tongue should arch. If you want the full benefit you need to learn to tongue in the manner that Herbert L. Clarke, Doc Severinsen, Claude Gordon, and most other virtuosos tongue (whether they realize it or not). The way to tongue is to keep the tip of your tongue resting behind the back of your bottom teeth and actually strike the note with the "front-middle" of your tongue coming into contact with the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth.
This will feel awkward at first, but within a few weeks you will NEVER want to go back to the other way.
Tonguing in this fashion does two things:
1) Makes the upper register - especially tonguing in the upper register - much easier. Keeps the tongue moving FORWARD and UP in the mouth as you play higher reducing the tendency to "choke off" notes by overstraining and moving the tongue BACK and UP (WRONG) towards the back of the mouth in a choking fashion.
2) Promotes extreme fast tonguing ability since the tongue has to move very little when tonguing in this manner (as opposed to the silly way one has to wag the tip of their tongue up and down in the mouth when tonguing the wrong, but common way).
Multiple (Double and Triple) tonguing are also to be done with this way of tonguing.
For a thorough description of this, go to:
http://mattgraves.netfirms.com/k_tongue_modified.htm
All for now,
John Mohan
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Jim
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| Thanks to Mr. Mohan for his reply. I have been extremely imrpessed with the information he has given to all users of this website. It has certainly helped me. Jim |
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