Learn DOUBLE & TRIPLE TONGUE on the clarinet! 

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Best of luck!

Happy to help! Best of luck with the practice!

Best of luck!

Happy to hear you liked it! Best of luck!

Thank you Manuel! 😁

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@Carl Kaiden yup, I've been watching on InstaFlixxer for months myself :D

Thanks! Happy you like it!

Happy to help!

Tack själv!

Best of luck!

Best of luck! :)

Happy to help! :)

Sounds like a good challenge!

Already learned it😄 it's pretty fun

For me, its the Rossini Introduction, Theme, and Variations. Not just the finale, but also the 2nd variation as well

Good luck! 😁

Thank you!

De nada, boa sorte!

Thank you for the kind words! Happy to help! :) ¡Gracias por las amables palabras! ¡Feliz de ayudar! :) (Google translate, hope it's correct...)

Yes, it's correct your words. God bless you

Go go go!

Thanks!

Happy to help! :)

Lycka till!

Got it! :D :D :D

Say "Ka" in the same way you would say the beginning of "carrot". Works for me at least. :) Good luck!

Hope they succeded!

Happy you like the video! I press very lightly with the tip of my tongue, trying to hit the reed quite close to the tip, but moving further down the reed as I play higher notes. I agree with you that it is more difficult, but if you focus more on what air you're using rather than where the tongue is hitting the reed, you will accomplish a much bigger control over the articulation. In other words: practice by playing short notes as long as possible, with as close to the tip of your tongue for a higher precision. Especially in high registers. It is more difficult, yes, but in the end you will gain a much higher control of your articulation. Good luck!

Understood, thank you! 🤝

Thank you! I don't think so, mainly because the "ta" is much more precise, clearer and easier to produce than the "ka".

Dropping the jaw, dropping the tongue, flattening the clarinet angle to a more "oboe-like" angle. And KEEPING THE AIR. ;D

Thanks! I play a James Kanter, standard facing. :)

Thanks Paul! The pages and bar numbers differ from the video, as I constructed the PDF afterwards... But all the exercises should be there nevertheless. Best of luck!

I'm using the cheapest, standard leather one. Have tried the lot and this works best for me. And thanks! :)

Difficult to explain here, perhaps I will try to make another video to explain it with visual aids/PDF. In the meantime, check out this page: www.wfg.woodwind.org/clarinet/

Best of luck!

Hi! I'm happy you like my videos! Do you mean that the "k-sound" sounds too glissando-ish? If so, try perhaps a harder reed. It will demand more from your support, but it will make it easier to play the "k-sound". :) Hope it helps!

many thanks! I let pass a few weeks of testing , and I have really solved it. It was the cane (very soft), and to that I added a work very consciously of the "k ', trying to move as little as possible the tongue. I thank you very much for your help and your videos. Greetings from the quarantine in Argentina. I hope you are well in your country.

I'll write it down on my to-do-list! :)

Hi! Sorry, I don't have time right now to put something new up. But I would recommend to keep working slowly up the register and use a lot of air in combination with the muscles on the sides of the mouth. And yes, it's tough way up there, and often easier to do double-tonguing faster than slower when you play those high notes. :)

I would say that this could of course be applied to ANY scale. But the higher you go, and the larger the intervals between the notes get, it will be more challenging. 😉

I would ju definitely yes for my part, since I need to really push more air for the K-sound than for the "regular" T-sound.

When I sightread alone I try not to play faster than I can control everything (rhythm, articulation etc). After that I slowly bring it up to speed.

@@EmilJonason Great thanks for feedback but just to clarify; once you bring it up to speed you are still sight reading, yes? Inwira.X.

It's Rizla paper, to protect my lips. :)

Hi! I don't know actually, go with what you think sounds best. "Ta-ka" is more clear on the clarinet than "doo-goo". Perhaps it's the same on saxophone.

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Sorry to give a boring answer, but start slow and with a lot of patience... 😉

Hello! I'll fix one and put a link in the description. I just took some screenshots of my doodling in the Sibelius software, but I'll compile them in a day or two. Stay tuned! :)

@@EmilJonason Fantastic! You're video on double tonguing is the best out there! Emphasis on continuity of air and an extra push on "k". I'm sure these are key. Also you have eliminated words which are not needed :-)

Thanks so much. The PDF is really helpful.

Emil Jonason can’t access the PDF, it says page not found 🙁

@@musokid89 Check the link in the description instead, just tried it and it should work. Sorry, didnt realise the other link wasn't working.

Stronger reeds make it easier to play a higher pitch, at the same time as it demands more from the player in terms of - as you say - more air. And a stable embouchure... ;)

It kind of happens automatically as you increase the speed of the articulation. The goal of practicing KA slowly is to focus on the actual sound a KA produces, which in turn makes all the KA sound more relaxed and effortless at a higher tempo. Good luck! :)

@@EmilJonason Thanks for takin 4th trouble to reply. That's amazing!

Whatever works best! :)

yes

Fixed! :)

Hahaha!

I "KA" the KA. ;)

Folded Rizla paper! To protect my lip from biting...

@@EmilJonason Interesting.

And in Swedish, the number 9, "neuf", in French is the exact same sound that a pig does. :D

Yup, understood.

So I hear... :)

It's folded Rizla (cigarette paper) to protect my lip. Can't play without it. :)

@@EmilJonason Thanks for the reply. Too bad you need that. Maybe you're playing too much! Reminds me of when I was in college band/orchestra. When I was a freshman I played second chair first clarinet. During rehearsals for a concert our director heard my clarinet making clicking noises. It was a cheap instrument that I had used for nine years. Great guy that he was, he had a friend who owned a music store and he got the guy to loan me a better clarinet on the (false) premise that I might want to buy it. It was a new Selmer Series 9 -- $400 clarinet in 1968, so no way I could buy it. Man, I had no idea that playing a clarinet could be so wonderful! The tone, the feel, the ease, the clear B-flat, and of course, no clicking. I grabbed all the sheet music I could find and went into a practice booth. I was sitting there playing for seven hours. I couldn't quit. Finally, they made me leave when the building closed. My lower lip and gums were bleeding. Boy, did I HATE having to give that marvelous instrument back after the concert! If I had had that clarinet since I was 10, who knows, I might have ended up as good as you. So to justify the length of this comment, some good advice: if any parent out there sees that your kid is showing some promise, don't let him/her keep playing a cheap, lousy horn for years. Find a way to fork out what's needed for a higher quality instrument.