CLASSICAL DOUBLE TONGUE | Haydn Symphony No. 88 Excerpt #bassoon #shorts #shortsfeed

This week’s #excerpt comes from the finale of Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 88! As with many of the great symphonies of the classical era, this features very fun and challenging double tongue sections, including today’s clip!
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???? My best advice for ALL instrumentalists learning to develop their double tongue is broken into a couple of key ideas:
1) Learn and refine the “back” articulation (saying “kuh” or “guh”), and have the articulation quality match your “front” articulation (articulating on the reed with “tah”, “lah”, or “dah”). Be very picky
2) Work what I call “the Handoff” between front & back articulations, focus on keeping the connection between the sound and a legato start to each pitch. Play it on one tone, for bassoonists I recommend F in the staff.
3) Develop comfort both starting & stopping on the front & back articalation, this is INCREDIBLY useful once you develop once I call an “ambidextrous tongue”.
4) Build speed on a single note, focusing on maintaining connection & legato articulation. Think Sostenuto and Legato all the time.
5) Move the articulation across different notes as needed for famous excerpts, solo & ensemble repertoire. Work slow to fast, focus on Sostenuto & Legato, and acknowledge that every note needs its own version of attention and care to make it all sound equal. You’ll find the back articulation can get squirrely on various pitches if you don’t focus on how you’re shaping the consonant.
Bonus) Think a higher vowel when moving the articulation around different notes. If my natural articulation is “tah” & “kah”, but double tongue articulation becomes “doo” & “goo” or “dee” & “gee”
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