by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Dec 7, 2017 | FluteTips, Practice, Tonguing
Here’s a tip is on how tonguing in your low register can benefit your high register. If you do a lot of exercises, tonguing, slowly and carefully in your low register, you’ll be amazed at how much that can help your high register. Everything above it benefits...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Oct 24, 2017 | Daily Routine, Low Register, Practice, Support, Technique, Tone, Tonguing
Who has difficulty tonguing short articulations in the low register? Do you? Or you? Tonguing in the low register is a bear. It takes a lot of work to get that low register working at optimal levels, especially if it’s short articulations. Hello Cantabile et...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 26, 2017 | FluteTips, Tonguing
One of the problems that I hear with my students is a flapping or thunking sound when they’re tonguing a piece. This occurs even with my college students. It comes out very clearly when they’re double-tonguing a piece. That thunking flapping sound is clear to me. But...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 17, 2017 | FluteTips, Tonguing
The 2nd movement of Bach’s C Major Flute Sonata is all double-tonguing. It’s a lot of fun! You should practice it. Here’s an important tip about how to begin practicing double-tonguing. Double-tonguing all starts with where you put the tip of your tongue. You...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 15, 2017 | FluteTips, Tonguing
Many people tongue too far back on the roof of their mouths. You want your tongue to be as far forward as you can get it without being on your teeth. Feel with your tongue on the roof of your mouth. There’s a knob that’s right in between the two front teeth. Then...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jul 25, 2017 | Daily Routine, Etudes, Practice, Technique, Tonguing
Just like there are those people in the world who enjoy practicing tone, there are people in the world who don’t enjoy practicing etudes. Now who can imagine that? I love my etude practice time, and there are many-a-day where I have skipped my solo practice time...
