Double and triple tonguing help
Hey guys, I've been working on double and triple tonguing for somewhere around six months. I'm getting better but it's taking a long time. Did this happen for anyone else? Am I perhaps doing something wrong? Also, my pitch seems to be off on the "ka" attack. Does anyone have any advice for that?
There are a lot of different syllabeles you can use. Try de ge. and de de ge for triple touguing. de is pronounced with a soft e. ge is pronounced with a hard g and soft e. and then just practice on which ever syllable works best for you. You can also practice by pulling your tuning slide out and just tonguing into your lead pipe. you can hear the imperfections much easier. Hope this helps.
Hey, thanks guys, I'll try it out.
The "ka" attack often throws the note out of tune, or comes a little slower. This will get better with practice, but only if you can stop it early on. One way to do this is to always use "doo goo" (or "too koo") instead of just de ge because this keeps the space in your mouth relatively the same size (the unevenness in tone is because your mouth and throat and soft pallette, etc. are changing shape, and therefore the tone, "oo" is a good sound to help keep your mouth the same shape). When you've master "too koo", and are going for high speeds, you might find that your tongue trips over itself a lot less if you switch up the vowel ("too koo ta ka ti ki taw gaw too koo ta ka ti ki taw gaw", for example). When you tonue repeats the same thing over and over, it is more likely to trip over itself. Making a longer stream lessens the chance of slipping up when going at fast speeds. Of course, this can only be done after you're comfortable enough with keeping your mouth the same shape that you can switch vowel sounds and not change the pitch.
Honestly, unless the passage is insanely fast, for many a fast single tongue is easier than double tonguing. double tonguing tires you out and takes a while to learn well, and can sound sloppy
any multiple tounging takes alot of practice and time to learn. like another person said above: it will sound good with alot of practice.

I myself am not a brass player and can't give very good advice... However, if you were to go to youtube and look at some of the tutorials there, apart from a personal tutor, that is likely as good as advice is gonna get. Good luck =D
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