Trumpet Fundamentals | Multiple Tonguing

Hey everybody, how's it going? Welcome back to another video. I'm Ryan Beach and in this video we're going to be talking about multiple tonguing. In this video we're going to be covering two different aspects that I think are important. First is how we literally break down the exercises and how we choose specific exercises to work on multiple tonguing and then also the way we play the exercises is something I want to go over to make sure that we're inputting the right things so that we can get the maximum benefit out of it. To begin with, one of the things that I noticed when I would work on multiple tonguing in the past is that when I wanted to try to play things fast, I would go fast but because I hadn't learned the coordination I would just sound terrible. I can't play anything. I noticed that when I got smart enough to slow things down and get everything coordinated, I wouldn't ever really get to those fast tempos to kind of teach my tongue what it felt like to move at a much faster rate than I was used to. So sometime in grad school I decided what if we just separated these two? What if we designed some exercises to work on fast multiple tonguing and what if we had some exercises that would work on coordination? This way we can kind of exploit what is unique about them and work on them and actually get used to what it feels like to get better at these individual skills. When we're choosing exercises to work on fast multiple tonguing and improving the speed of our multiple tongue, we want to choose exercises where the fingers aren't moving that much so we can focus all of our energy on the smoothness, the fluidity if you want to say, of our air and making sure that we have a lot of clarity in our articulation. To work on improving coordination between our tongue and our air and our fingers, we want to choose exercises that move, that are diatonic, that aren't just the same note the whole time, but now we don't have to worry about trying to play them fast because we've already got that covered. The ultimate goal of this kind of work would be to have these two different types of articulation growing side by side. Then through proper programming and learning of the repertoire that we're working on, we can see that these things might come together and allow us to know that although I'm coordinating and working on that part of a particular section in my repertoire, I know that my tongue can go fast enough by the end because I've been practicing faster multiple tonguing as well. The other thing that I wanted to cover in this video was actually how we approach playing the exercises and making sure we're inputting the right thing. A very common mistake that can happen is that we think about multiple tonguing as related to the tongue and not related to the air. So you get a lot of people who multiple tongue and it sounds like this, where you hear a lot of really clear front but there's no follow through with our air. So one thing I recommend if you struggle with that is to try to play as long as you can while keeping the clarity. This way we'll make sure that there's a nice airstream underneath and if you start out and there's a lot of flow underneath it and the clarity isn't there, I think that's better than removing the flow and having lots of clarity. Over the course of time you'll learn how to be able to drive more clarity through the articulation into your triple tonguing and your double tonguing. I wanted to put a few exercises in here demonstrating where you might start with some of these exercises. The goal is to have clarity of execution and beauty in the way we do it and then to worry about going faster. If you found this video helpful I'd really appreciate it if you would like it down below and don't forget to subscribe. If you have any questions or you want to take a lesson with me and you want to work on some of your issues that you have, there will be a link down below where we can chat for a little while and see if that's possible to set up. I'm going to link my fundamentals playlist on the screen right now so you can check out that playlist and see if there are any other videos that might be able to help you with some of the things you might be struggling with. Thanks so much for watching. We'll see you in the next video.