Speed Up Your Single Tonguing With These Tips | Clarinets, Cats, & Coffee 🎶🐈☕️

[@williamrappaport9203]

I want to share what I do so people can try it. I play short notes on a continuous air stream with a deliberate removal of the tongue to begin each one, and I work a lot on the slurred version of the passage I want to articulate, practicing it slowly with very fast snapping clean-cut finger motions to give my tongue something to work with. I touch the reed about a quarter of an inch down from the edge of the reed with the part of my tongue I touch the roof of my mouth with if I say the letter T. I agree with Cally that good embouchure is important.

[@iamjimfan]

The cat is completely immune to clarinet sound. Amazing.

[@alinamatthews426]

Wonderful video! After taking a break from clarinet for few years, I finally decided a few weeks ago to get back into it once more. I am so glad I have found your videos to help remind me of what I should be doing and to help me learn a few new techniques/tricks so I can continue improving on my own. Will be looking forward to your next upload :)

[@cltplayer]

Nice video Cally...I've always struggled with staccato tonguing, both for speed and clarity and realized recent it's because my tongue was too far away from the reed and consequently when it hit the reed it was doing so with force like a hammer as you said. One of the exercises I found really helped was to practice staccato tonguing on notes in the altissimo register because to get those nice and clean the tongue has to stay close to the reed. A good example is the Templeton Pocket Sonata #2, towards the end of the first movement....there are repeated high E's and I imagine the tongue is a feather to get a nice light touch on the reed.

[@callyclarinet]

Thank you for the comment - I love the imagery of a "feather" touch

[@craigallie641]

I don't know if this is useful but Keith Stein said in The Art of Clarinet Playing, "Imagine that one granule of the tongue tip is nicking a single fiber on the reed." This really helped me because my tonguing became very much 'draw back and attack'! Great video - it reminded me to keep my tongue close. Thank you :)

[@williamrappaport9203]

Beautiful playing and great fast staccato. I like to watch your videos because they always give me something to think about with my own playing. Thank you.

[@giandomenicogalluzzi7015]

I am speechless, truly speechless!

[@coincollectingwitherik]

Haha! Thank you, I was playing the Weber and was trying to speed up my tounging, and you play the exact piece.

[@jonathananuforo6547]

Great tips!, especially the one about keeping your tongue close to the Reed while articulating in other to retain the smooth/clear sound of the clarinet. Nice job!

[@katkita9123]

Hi Cally, your explanation is very clear! I will start following your channel.

[@callyclarinet]

thank you for following! :-)

[@mia-tg2jk]

this is such a helpful video! i’m a 8th grader currently learning camille saint saens clarinet sonata first movement for my solo recital. I’m trying to do better at tonging during measure 44 since it goes really fast, thank you for this video!

[@callyclarinet]

Oh yeah measure 44 is tough! Best of luck; the Saint-saens is so beautiful!

[@mia-tg2jk]

@@callyclarinet It indeed is, thank you!

[@redjonabaziofficial3128]

Very Helpfull Cally. Thank You for you'r videos how helps me to articulate my Technique. Your the best🤗

[@callyclarinet]

🎶🎶🎶 you're welcome!

[@derrellwood3811]

You're a very good teacher, thanks. It is difficult to know for students what is supposed to be happening within the mouth. it feels like try this and that till a technique emerges.

[@callyclarinet]

Yeah, that's the struggle with trying to teach or learn over KZbin... definitely can't replace the feedback one can get in private lessons

[@doretteverwey3641]

Thank you Cally.. trying to get back into playing…wanting to cross the floor from classroom teacher to 1st chair in an all womens orchestra in the UAE..audition comming up soon… Havent been playing a lot late;y and feel my technique is down.. will be following you a bit more closely in the weeks to come. You are agood teacher.

[@callyclarinet]

Thank you!!! Good luck with your audition 🤞

[@jimis3167]

Please! Can you make a video about how to practice double tonguing? I really need It!!

[@auvillars]

Very nice thanks 😊

[@PinacoladaMatthew]

1:00 the whole time I am thinking "oh no you're gonna spill that coffee~!!!"

[@callyclarinet]

hahaha

[@Jaujau933]

Just discovered you! Great tips 👍🏼 greets from Germany 🇩🇪

[@callyclarinet]

Thank you!!!

[@dorseygreene5838]

Very very helpful

[@bibi53962]

Thanks!! your tonguing is great!!

[@callyclarinet]

Thank you!

[@BassClubKing]

great Video THANKS !!!

[@alexandre.meireles]

Muito obrigado pelas informações.

[@markbuehner]

Great video! As you said, it's hard to know what our tongue is really doing in there, but I think the back of my tongue drops when tonguing and the sound suffers as a result. Any tips on avoiding this? Thanks!

[@JM-oo9dn]

Very good and very talented! Congratulations! Where can I find the base of the Concertino you use in the video? A thousand thanks....

[@callyclarinet]

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[@nicoleamoriel]

My tongue moves soooo much, my primary instruments are flute and trombone so keeping the tongue as still as possible is SO difficult. It's so sensitive and it makes me want to cry. This happens specifcally on throat tones and anywhere on a g above the staff :(

[@PinacoladaMatthew]

6:35 wow

[@PinacoladaMatthew]

I'm so gonna do this everyday from now on

[@PinacoladaMatthew]

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[@doretteverwey3641]

Love your channel …for me its " Clarinets, Pug (that thinks its a cat) and lots of coffee"

[@callyclarinet]

hahahaha pugs are soooooooo cute

[@fifeandrobby7925]

Great video Cally! - Aria :)

[@callyclarinet]

Thanks Aria!!

[@medusa210562]

Its funny how Americans use the word articulation, articulation is the combination of all the signs such as "legato, tenuto, staccato, etc etc etc." Articulation is not just staccato.

[@sumudukapuruge8576]

thanks for the great video and happy weekend. 🇱🇰

[@moltforthecult2860]

Thank you for the video

[@123stfu9]

whats the name of the song in the begining

[@callyclarinet]

It's the Weber Concertino, Op. 26

[@Momusicrec]

I find that I can't use the tip of my tongue to the tip of the reed because of my double lip embochure. In turn, i am forced to use the center of my tongue to articulate. Idk how to fix it, ive tried everything

[@callyclarinet]

Interesting! Maybe you're just used to it?

[@Momusicrec]

@@callyclarinet Do you think its bad to use the center of my tongue to articulate?

[@callyclarinet]

Mid-tonguing generally lacks clarity, meaning it typically will sound "fluffy" instead of clear and crisp. Hmm... Stay tuned... This gives me an idea for an articulation video this week... 🤔

[@Momusicrec]

@@callyclarinet When I used a 3 strength reed, yes my articulation was fluffy, but when I moved up to a 3.5 strength reed, it got rid of the fluff lol.

[@igorclaude]

Thank you very much Cally for this and other greatly helpful videos. I find that a lot of spit gets in the instrument when I try to articulate (being only a beginner), which upsets its sound after a fairly short amount of time. Watching your tips I wondered if the reason could be my failure to form a proper vacuum with my embouchure. Is that the main reason for these kinds of problems? I have not been able to find any other solution till now. Thanks again

[@callyclarinet]

Yeah, maybe try the "vacuum seal"... Also, I sometimes wonder if tonguing can trigger the mouth to salivate, especially with beginners before they get used to keeping the jaw still and only using only the tip of the tongue... Like, if we move the whole tongue and the whole jaw by accident when we articulate maybe it triggers salivation, kind of like when we start chewing, the jaw and tongue are active and we salivate to eat. You can see if you are using too much tongue if you watch yourself in the mirror and see your throat move around. And similarly you can see if the jaw is moving if you watch yourself in a mirror. anyway, this is all speculation... if anyone reading this has more insight I would be curious to know additional thoughts...

[@igorclaude]

@@callyclarinetWell, I had never thought of this second possibility, certainly it makes sense. I do seem to be using more of the tongue than necessary and indeed moving the jaw even if very slightly. Thanks a lot for the tip!

[@TheTabwinner]

I noticed that at m69 you slurred the most of that measure. Is it ok to do that? This is not meant as a criticism but I played the Concertino many years ago and now have students working on it and tell them to tongue they entire measure.

[@callyclarinet]

Articulation definitely adds sparkle and charm to that measure! I do the slur going up as I like to put more power in the crescendo, which leads nicely into m.70 where the 8ths are accented (pictured here they are staccato, but I play with accents on them).