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Now's the time to learn to double tongue! - part 1 take the recorder double tonguing challenge!!

3/19/2020

sophie saunders

3/20/2020 02:48:32 am

I love your lesson about double tonguing. It has really given me hope and something to work on in these dark times! Thank you Emma keep going!

Emma @ Recorder Helpdesk! link

3/20/2020 05:15:00 am

Great! Thank you Sophie. I hope people find it useful and yes, a focus and challenge during these dark times. Happy practising! Until Monday... X

veronica DORAN

3/28/2020 06:21:34 am

very helpful as i'm a self taught tenor recorder player having started after retiring. THANKS

Emma @ Recorder Helpdesk! link

3/28/2020 08:57:04 am

I'm glad the videos are helpful Veronica. Happy practising! X

Jane Mallinson

3/20/2020 04:33:19 am

Thanks Emma. Looking forward to more videos from you. Take care. Jane

Emma @ Recorder Helpdesk! link

3/20/2020 05:17:22 am

Great! Thanks Jane. Happy practising! Until Monday... X

Guido Blondelle

3/20/2020 05:43:16 am

This is fantastic, Emma! I'm in!

Emma @ Recorder Helpdesk! link

3/20/2020 06:33:52 am

Yay!! Good luck! See you next week

Arelis

3/20/2020 05:50:00 am

Thank you, Emma! This instruction video is great! I look forward to the next ones.

Emma @ Recorder Helpdesk! link

3/20/2020 06:35:03 am

Great! I hope it helps! Until Monday

Evelyn Emerson

3/20/2020 08:20:46 am

Thank you, Emma!

I met you last summer at the Ireland course. I practiced a lot of recorder while I worked for the past 6 months in Hanoi. Now back in the US, I had hoped to spend a lot of time with my two grandchildren. Instead, this is Day 5 of lockdown. Music has become my daily therapy. Luckily got my piano tuned right before the ‘social distancing’ began so I alternate between recorder practice and piano.

Thanks so much for the online lesson. If nothing else, I will be a better musician and, possibly, a better cook by the time this is over!

Emma @ Recorder Helpdesk! link

3/20/2020 11:24:49 pm

Hi again Evelyn! That's great you're doing so much music during this time. I got my piano tuned last week too, so I'm very grateful for that... Music is very important during these dark times, as well as cooking - (dinner at yours next time..!) And learning to double tongue is too, while we all have the time! Happy practising! See you on Monday X

Ellen O’Gorman

3/21/2020 10:16:35 am

Emma, this is so great, and immediately practical, with the advice to keep the edges of the tongue against the teeth. I was beginning to notice already that my throat was closing up when you mentioned at the end the need to keep the air flowing. That will be my main point of practice now.
So lovely to see your face and hear your voice: it makes me smile.

Emma @ Recorder HelpDesk! link

3/22/2020 01:25:16 am

Thanks Ellen! I'm glad you're finding it helpful. Keeping the air flowing is one of the most difficult things for people to do. It's great you've noticed that already and can work on that from the start. I wish I could see your lovely smiley face too - photo??
Good luck with it! Until tomorrow X

David Allen

3/21/2020 10:48:46 am

Hi Emma, lovely to see you. This is great it will help motivate me to start doing some practice again. Double tonguing is one of those things which goes off if I am out of practice.

Best wishes to all the family.

emma @ recorder helpdesk! link

3/22/2020 01:28:01 am

Hi David, I'm glad this will give motivation to practice. That's what we all need at times, especially in the unique situation we find ourselves in. Happy double tonguing!
I hope you and your family are all well X

Gerda Hatton-Ellis

3/22/2020 12:58:46 am

Thank you so much, Emma. We met in Exeter a few years ago when you gave us a lovely day conducting for us at the SRP.
I will persevere! Though my tongue keeps tripping up.
This is so kind of you. We all need music more that ever.
With love ,
Gerda

emma @ recorder helpdesk! link

3/22/2020 01:30:54 am

Hi Gerda, long time no see! I hope you're keeping well. Don't worry about your tongue tripping up - this is very common at the start as it's a muscle we're training, just like an athlete. It will take time and lots or patience. Good luck with it!

Ed Cipullo

3/22/2020 08:08:25 am

Hi Emma! Great video! I look forward to the upcoming lessons. My biggest challenge is changing notes while double tonguing on the recorder. Not sure if it is for others. My fingers are slow. I'm now looking into the Irish Course for August - fingers crossed. I hope you and your family are well.

emma @ recorder helpdesk! link

3/23/2020 04:51:31 am

Thanks Ed! We haven't got onto moving fingers yet, yet alone using the recorder!!! We'll get to use the recorder in part 2, and then moving fingers in part 3, so watch this space! You'd love the Irish course, if we're all out of isolation by then....fingers crossed. I hope you're all staying well X

Antje

3/22/2020 09:24:30 am

Dear Emma,

thank you for your efforts. The importance of having sufficient air drove me to intensify singing and playing the trombone. But we can betray ourselves so easily..

I‘m happy about the corrections during lessons. For trombone playing it is important to have the right speed or vowel for the air. Starting with an open oh via ah to an e (English pronounciation) one can get higher notes. And one has to train staying as relaxed as it can be for getting higher notes, because the sound is getting „tighter“ if less air comes through. Thus for the trombone double tongue we need more vowels, I supppose and even more air.

Looking forward for the next lesson and sending greetings to all with a special wish for those who are ill.

emma @ recorder helpdesk! link

3/23/2020 04:54:28 am

Thanks Antje! That's really interesting about the trombone. I feel it's different for the recorder though, as we need to get more relaxed, and make the consonants (syllables) more relaxed as we go higher up, otherwise we split the notes. I'll talk about this in Video 2. I hope you're keeping well over there X

Rosalyn Smith

3/26/2020 08:35:50 am

I am also a Recorder/Trombone player, what you say about being relaxed is so important. When doing my undergrad my teacher used to get frustrated with me if I had come from Trombone practice or lesson straight to Recorder, I now understand the reason that my throat etc was not as relaxed as it should've been. The breathing support from the diaphragm is also very important for both instruments to help with the air flow.

Emma @ Recorder Helpdesk! link

3/27/2020 10:08:31 am

Hi Rosalyn, I forgot you play trombone as well. It is so right, the open throat IS ESSENTIAL. As a singer and recorder player myself, it is so evident how linked the two are - as I demonstrate in my first booklet: 'Recorder Technique from Singing'. Air needs to flow freely with an open throat. I hope you're getting on well with the double tonguing challenge! X

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