playing techniques

[Kombmail]

guys is tonguing basically playing legato on a woodwind instrument?

[katie,rinos]

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!

[Kombmail]

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?

[katie,rinos]

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.

[Fluffysama_]

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?