Practice Exercises for Double Tonguing

Practice exercises for mastering double tonguing. By Terry B. Ewell. Bassoon Digital Professor video # 19. www.2reed.net

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• bassoon
• oboe
• articulation
• tonguing
• teaching

[CatFlashBlue]

Can anyone help me? I'm looking around to buy a bassoon, preferably a Fox Renard 220, 222, or a Conn-Selmer. But I can't find any stable prices for those, somewhere between $5,500 and $8,000. Then I find the $20,000 or $50,000 bassoons and I feel completely lost. I really want to find a simple, stable and professional bassoon but nothing fancy or expensive.

[tewelltube]

The Fox Renard bassoons are higher end student models. Bassoons priced at $20,000 and up are professional models. Much more time is spend with the materials and finishing the instruments.

[CatFlashBlue]

@tewelltube But that's so expensive. I'm worried I can't afford an $8,000 student model, let alone a professional model. My use for the bassoon is not to become part of a professional orchestra. I want to be more of a solo artist, and perhaps I would make some music with some musician friends. I don't want a $2,000 "hobby" instrument, however. Would a student instrument work for my purposes?

[tewelltube]

The Fox Renard instruments are very good. Also you might want to check out similar instrument made by other makers such as Mooseman, Yamaha, and Wolf.

[kingsdon]

I just can't get any sound - vewry frustrating! Trina

[tewelltube]

Trina,

This can take time. Try saying "kitty kitty kitty..." faster and faster apart from the instrument. Then you can try it while blowing with the reed in your mouth.

Good luck!

[WeirdBoo]

Awesome. Time to play some Colas Breugnon.

[CatFlashBlue]

@tewelltube Thank you for your help, and with your other videos too. I'd say you are one of the Youtubers who actually has something to contribute =)

[tyrelroo]

The problem I encounter, and I notice it in some of your played examples, too, is a tendency for a sort of swing-like rhythm. Instead of an even ta-ka-ta-ka-ta-ka, it's a kind of taaa-ka taaa-ka taaa-ka taa-ka. Trying to eliminate this is extraordinarily difficult.

But I wonder if it's even really a problem; at the speeds where one requires double-tonguing, maybe this effect isn't noticeable.

[tsunaderoxz]

Would this double tonguing work for clarinet even though it is a single reed? Just curious being a clarinet player. Very insightful videos!!

[MajinBuu609]

dudeeeee ur awesome! i've been lookin for help everywhere on double tounging. i play trombone and i'm jus starting to get the hang of it. at first, someone told me to use da-ga da-ga but now i jus learned the TK way. seems one is for legatto and the other one is for stacatto. either way, ur the best man. thanks a lot =D 6/5

[freezingbeast]

thanks for posting this, i'll practice this, hope it will get me better at double tonging (right now it's about the same speed as i can do normal tonging)