Tips for Tonguing Exercises

Video Transcript

"But the primary forms of tonguing are what I was just doing is called single tonguing where you're just using that motion of. And remember when you're tonguing, your using the tongue at the beginning of the note. But you're not ending with the tongue because it just sounds message. Just use your diaphragm and just stop the breathing. Ok, you start to play certain things. And you say, ?My God, that's just too fast. I can't single tongue it anymore." To help facilitate this process, there's something that's called double tonguing. Single tonguing if I were to just demonstrate to you this way. It's ta ta ta ta ta ta ta. Or the farther you go back, it's more like dugga, dugga, dugga or da da da da da da da. Double tonguing is more like a ticka ticka ticka ticka ticka sound. So that what you're doing is you got. So you're making a ticka ticka ticka ka ka ka sound so that the tongue really is just kind of like ancillary to the you got the tick tongue here, and then ka which is pushing that note into that process. And it's kind of hard really to describe. You've just got to do it yourself. But you'll get a sense the minute you're playing the notes. That you'll find that you just want to use that motion to do that. And there's also something called triple tonguing, which is mostly for just really fast stuff in triplet format. Ticcka ticccka ticcka or dicka dicka dicka the lower you go. And that is tonguing."