Michael Rusinek on How to Develop Rapid Articulation 

Note to clarinet students: learn how to double tongue! It’s an invaluable technique. This is a good video.

Beautiful tonality, and, a great teaching personality. I would have you do many coaching vids, especially geared toward inspiring newbies.

holy crap!!!! lol my band director would be suprised when i finally can learn this haha! oh and your clarinet sounds really great .

This was well done. Always looking to improve my DT. I'm a former Tommy Thompson student, lol. Thanks for doing this video.

I like it, I DT on flute but never tried on Clarinet. You do it beautifully! I am starting on this today. Thanks

Please discuss how to develop this above G on the staff!!! You are amazing Michael, but the true difficulty is G and into the altissimo. Any recommendations?

I insist he demo his double tonguing over the range of the clarinet. He does sound great in the low register, but what does that get him up higher?

Hey Michael, very well explained. U Should work together with Hamburgs Martin Schmidt-Hahn !!

Hey I'm a big ol' dumbo, so how do you make a ka sound? Do you use your tongue? I am absolutely clueless on double tounging

@kathywilliams76 Good for you. Not everyone is blessed with a rapid tongue. For some people, like me and many many others, including Michael Rusinek that mentioned early in the video, it's physically impossible for us to tongue any faster than we can. For others like Martin Frost, Julian Bliss, and Ricardo Morales, they all can tongue (single-tongue) extremely fast. Yes, they all practice, duh. But, for many others that's not possible. Learning to double tongue could be the next best opt.

@kathywilliams76 Wait, is that directed towards a professional clarinet player in the Pittsburgh Symphony xD

2:29 what song is this and can i get a copy of it for bb clarinet????

Can this be done on saxophone?

Does Michael's head-down position have anything to do with this articulation technique?

great video, thanks!

Excellent! WOW!

What is the point of debating whether it works or not? What is so difficult about wrapping the concept around your head that what may work for some people may not work for others? Maybe double tonguing doesn't work for you, but obviously it works very will for Mr. Rusinek, considering how good he sounds with his double tonguing.

rico.... *shudders*

I finally found this video.

It's more difficult in the extreme upper and lower registers of the instrument because of the differences in resistance...

This did not explain how it is actually done, the tongue mechanics in slow mo etc.

Gold

awesomeeeeee!

@theman9126 As I said, I can already single tongue at 144. I'm not convinced double tonguing works on a clarinet. All I tried to point out was, if I had two years to work on my tonguing, I would work on my single tongue. After a bit of a lay off, I did a repeated note staccato scale at 140 this morning. And that is 4 semiquavers per note up to a top E, up and down

woow....

Sigh... the never-ending competition about who can tongue faster. Honestly, I think it's more important that you can control your tempo very well while fast-tonguing. I can't even begin to talk about how many people just rush like there's no tomorrow when they get excited about the tonguing in Mendelssohn scherzo.

@kathywilliams76 unless you can already single tongue at 144 and have a conductor who wants you to play the solo in the presto after the andante in the finale of rach 2nd symphony at 170

@egassi1027 yes, its not that hard..

Work on your single tongue for as long as that, and you don't need to double tongue. I single tongue at 144