Gabriel-double tonguing has eluded me for most of my life-this video give me hope. It's the one thing that has never fallen in place for me relatively easily-but the way you coach this and explain the technique is wonderful and I will get at it now with your video as my main source of information.
this was really helpful - thank you. I've always been taught 'doo goo' sound which I was totally unsuccessful with. playing with different shapes like 'ti ki' and 'ta ka' has really helped improve the speed and sound
I suggest starting around quarter note equal 60 and playing sixteenth note scales slur two tongue two, and slowly increase the metronome maintaining a clean attack on all tongued notes. The Slur gives your tongue a chance to rest, as you increase the metronome speed you will eventually make your way to 120 you can then go back to quarter equal 60 and tongue four sixteenth notes at a time without the slur. To start Instead of playing a complete scale I suggest starting on tonic and slurring to the second scale degree and tongue that note twice (slur two = first note to second note in scale) tongue two = repeat second note two more times tongued. Do this on each scale degree with its upper neighbor. Increase the metronome only when you can do this cleanly. Finally concentrate on moving the tonguing as little as possible, stat close to the reed in between notes, think legato.
I’ll try this tomorrow my bassoon is not with me. That sounds effective but it might not work for me my tongue is really thick and I was practicing on my own.
It depends on the context, If we are talking about single tonguing in conjunction with practicing for a good double tongue then I say "Ti". However there are other contexts that require single tonguing like slow soft legato where might say "doo" or "di" or "tu" or in a repeated staccato in the mid register I might say "Ta". Largely I find that the consonant at the beginning of a note depends on what type of attack I want and the vowel that follows is typically dictated by either the tuning tendency of a note or the color of sound I want.
