I`m definitely not sure if this is right, but someone told me that you can`t double-tongue on a clarinet

yeah you can. I went to clarinet camp and they talked about double tounguing. I myself don`t, though.

I know that it is possible - I know a saxaphone player who could double-tongue and it is essentially the same for any sigle reeded instrument. However, it took him years to be able to do it well.

Yeah! duh! but it takes alot of practice (like years my instructor said) you like got to do this weird thing that I haven`t done yet but I will!

As far as double tonguing goes.. Theres really no reason to need to double tongue. It can be done, but it would take up a lot of practice time that could be used on other clarinet techniques. If you cant single tongue a given passage, then it is possible that you arent playing the clarinet in the most efficient manor. Most of the time people have problems with tonguing not because they have slow tongues.. but because the fingers arent keeping up with the articulating. Try practicing scales, quarter note=40 (use a metronome) Staccato("like a chicken") tongue the first note of the scale, then imediately finger the next note. so on and so fourth As it becomes more natural, try speeding it up a bit. With practice the tongue will get faster. Hope this helps.

-Fred

I think the point would be to play rapid REPEATED notes.

Double tonguing is very possible, and I think that as composers continue to write more challenging music it will become a much more common technique.

I double tongue/triple tongue and I use this technique fairly regularly. I should say that my single tongue is by no means inefficent (sixteenth notes at 140 is my breaking point). However, being able to double tongue allows me the confindence of being able to play any piece of music at any tempo. Although my single tongue is fast, I don`t think I could play the Bartered Bride Overture on an audition single tongued.

If you would like exercises on single or double tongue let me know, and I could post them or email them to you.

Bryan

Wow.. that is so cool... I`m so bad at single tounging (even though e flat clarinet is so much easier to play tongued at). Could you send something to me? My email address is: superida @ hotmail.com

that was actually wrong my email is: superidag @ hotmail.com

if you have time, id like to have some double exersizes as well. it should come in handy sometime