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Title: playing techniques
Post by: Kombmail on September 27, 2019, 12:54:28 pm
guys is tonguing basically playing legato on a woodwind instrument?
Title: Re: playing techniques
Post by: katie,rinos on September 27, 2019, 01:22:08 pm
Quote from: Kombmail on September 27, 2019, 12:54:28 pm
guys is tonguing basically playing legato on a woodwind instrument?
Hey,
No, I play clarinet and I basically tongue almost every note of my pieces. Tonguing is kinda how woodwind players articulate their notes. The only exception to tonguing is when you play a slurred passage, you only tongue the first note. So, I'll still tongue a staccato/legato/accented note but they'll have a different attack/air control between them.

Hope this helps! :)
Title: Re: playing techniques
Post by: Kombmail on September 28, 2019, 02:19:13 pm
Quote from: katie,rinos on September 27, 2019, 01:22:08 pm
Hey,
No, I play clarinet and I basically tongue almost every note of my pieces. Tonguing is kinda how woodwind players articulate their notes. The only exception to tonguing is when you play a slurred passage, you only tongue the first note. So, I'll still tongue a staccato/legato/accented note but they'll have a different attack/air control between them.

Hope this helps! :)

So it’s basically a general method of woodwind articulation?
Title: Re: playing techniques
Post by: katie,rinos on September 28, 2019, 03:52:58 pm
Quote from: Kombmail on September 28, 2019, 02:19:13 pm
So it’s basically a general method of woodwind articulation?
Yeah, i'm pretty sure it's something that every wind instrument does to articulate their notes. :)
Title: Re: playing techniques
Post by: Fluffysama_ on August 08, 2020, 08:21:40 pm
Quote from: katie,rinos on September 27, 2019, 01:22:08 pm
Hey,
No, I play clarinet and I basically tongue almost every note of my pieces. Tonguing is kinda how woodwind players articulate their notes. The only exception to tonguing is when you play a slurred passage, you only tongue the first note. So, I'll still tongue a staccato/legato/accented note but they'll have a different attack/air control between them.

Hope this helps! :)


hey katie,
was wondering if this meant that less tonguing = to more legato? since tonguing seems to articulate the notes?