How to Teach Tonguing on the Clarinet | Backun Educator Series

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  • Опубликовано: 20 окт 2016
  • The Backun Educator Series presents Michelle Anderson, founder of Clarinet Mentors (www.clarinetmentors.com), in a series of videos designed specifically to help school band teachers to teach clarinet more easily and effectively. For many students, it feels challenging to learn how to tongue properly on the clarinet, and as a result many students create their own, problematic, systems for tonguing. This video will show you a reliable method to help your students learn properly, right from the start. This includes proper blowing, tongue position, and how to help students who have learned incorrectly to identify and fix their problems.
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    Michelle Anderson, a Backun Musical Services Artist, is a professional clarinetist and teacher in Vancouver, BC. She specializes in creating resources to help people to play the clarinet more easily and beautifully. Her company, Clarinet Mentors (www.clarinetmentors.com), and RUclips channel ( / clarinetmentors , have helped thousands of clarinetists to discover systems to quickly improve their clarinet playing, and to enjoy the instrument more.
    Videos Produced by: unitednathanproductions.com
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Комментарии • 62

  • @KawaiiBunnyPyun
    @KawaiiBunnyPyun 6 лет назад +131

    *has been playing for five years but just realized I don't tongue right* thanks this helped

    • @Supremedalex
      @Supremedalex 5 лет назад +32

      I have been playing clarinet for the same length and I was never taught how to tongue as I basically was forced to learn clarinet myself as my band director taught me nothing, it is hard to get in a good habit of tonguing.

    • @karlbue8054
      @karlbue8054 4 года назад +3

      Ditto

    • @pranavs2098
      @pranavs2098 4 года назад +5

      Same I just realized my tongue wasn't touching the reed

    • @tauma_the_goat7156
      @tauma_the_goat7156 4 года назад +1

      Supreme Dalex That is similar to me! I was never taught how to tongue and one day expected to do it!!

    • @drumminfro
      @drumminfro 3 года назад +3

      I went through all of middle school and high school tonguing wrong. It wasn't until college that they tried to fix it and I think I was too far gone and ended up quitting band 😭 12 years later, I bought a clarinet and I'm gonna try to learn this properly because I miss playing so much

  • @candisfirchau3810
    @candisfirchau3810 3 года назад +8

    I am relearning my clarinet after 40 years, thank you so much! The breathing, tongue, etc!!

  • @hollyschrack5910
    @hollyschrack5910 3 года назад +15

    This is now my 6th year playing and in 4th grade I was told to tongue my reed but never understood how so I just didn't. Now I have to play faster in high school and can't because I huff. Hopefully this works. Thank you.

  • @mae15015
    @mae15015 4 года назад +18

    Oh, my God! My friend just recently pointed out to me that my tonguing isn’t correct and this helped a lot. Thank you so much!

  • @PolyphonicSeduction
    @PolyphonicSeduction 5 лет назад +8

    I've LOVED her videos for YEARS! I'm SO proud she's doing this now! So proud!

  • @liz4rd680
    @liz4rd680 4 года назад +3

    this is very helpful! i have to tongue later today in my class
    my teacher has been really nice and understands that i was never taught how to tongue
    but this is helpful, thank you

  • @parse4866
    @parse4866 3 года назад +2

    been playing for 7 years and was tounging wrong because my teacher didnt teach me shit thank you so much for this, it makes everything so easy

  • @ElBirbo
    @ElBirbo Год назад

    This has helped me a lot! I'm a junior who's been playing for just short of 7 years now and I actually learned how to tongue like a brass player as opposed to using my tongue on the reed. I realized it about 6 months ago but could never find the resolve to fix my ways. Now i'm fully dedicating and your advice has helped me a ton! Thanks

  • @carlhopkinson
    @carlhopkinson 5 лет назад

    Excellent super-clear explanation and check-up! Outstanding pedagogy!!!!!

  • @litobakzcozykc7616
    @litobakzcozykc7616 6 лет назад +3

    The best teacher ever

  • @massiel6770
    @massiel6770 Год назад

    I just started getting back to playing clarinet after 10 years and this was very helpful!

  • @tioliak
    @tioliak Год назад

    Thank you! You are a great teacher!

  • @michellesolis1766
    @michellesolis1766 6 лет назад +1

    Very helpful, thank you!

  • @shivalib
    @shivalib 6 лет назад +3

    this helped me sooooo much thanks

  • @DaveMcKeownMusic
    @DaveMcKeownMusic 4 года назад +10

    so important, I get so many students come to me who haven't been taught to tongue properly, or not at all

    • @James-cs2dz
      @James-cs2dz 4 года назад +2

      Hey that's me! I started in 7th grade and I was never really taught anything because people played in 6th grade si they were better than me

  • @reinholdhubner8880
    @reinholdhubner8880 Год назад

    Excellent teaching!!!😊

  • @dehatijatt
    @dehatijatt 6 лет назад +3

    Helped a lot

  • @irislindenmaier999
    @irislindenmaier999 5 лет назад

    exactly such a video I was searching, thank you! :-)

  • @afsutton89
    @afsutton89 Год назад

    I like the whisper technique! Will try that with my new beginners this year I think!
    Though usually i find giving my students the challenge of a “tonguing record” they have to try to beat each week helps give them the motivation to practise tonguing and getting tonguing speed up. We practise this before we even learn to slur. Right after long notes. Then I get students to hold their long note and see how many times they can start and o the sound in one breath. I get students double and triple tonguing as beginners sometimes!

  • @cesarbustos8259
    @cesarbustos8259 10 месяцев назад

    Gracias.

  • @kihue627
    @kihue627 6 лет назад +2

    Helped a lot thanks

  • @xthan1250
    @xthan1250 4 года назад +5

    I tongue and I don't huff but when I tongue the note keeps squeaking. What do I do?

  • @The_girl_aaliyah
    @The_girl_aaliyah 2 года назад

    Thank this helped a lot :)

  • @ameliabrumley520
    @ameliabrumley520 3 года назад

    I DID IT!!! FINALLY

  • @daniel30855
    @daniel30855 2 года назад

    Thanks. It’s my first year of band and I haven’t figured it out yet.

  • @jan4052
    @jan4052 Год назад

    Thanks Michelle. I have been playing for about 2 months now and I am very unhappy with my tonguing (I come from a flute background where tonguing is much easier). BTW, your clarinet is gorgeous!

  • @brendareed8412
    @brendareed8412 3 года назад

    Heck. I have been ramming the very top edge of the reed!

  • @wesleylewis8237
    @wesleylewis8237 6 лет назад +18

    what about tonguing where my tongue is tapping the roof of my mouth as though i was saying T without the clarinet? Any thoughts there as I've been doing that for the last 18 years and the tone and sound is just as good as anyone else using the original technique. I teach both methods to my students giving them the choice of which works better as all mouths and tongues are different shapes and sizes

    • @Ginger198
      @Ginger198 3 года назад +3

      I've been playing lile that for like 5 years now, was recently told I should learn the proper tongue-touching-reed method in order to play staccato properly😞😞it's so easy many players to tongue the wrong way because it doesn't really sound different until you reached a higher level and then it's too late to correct.

    • @lolagiwa896
      @lolagiwa896 3 года назад +1

      @@Ginger198 yup just realized and now idk what to do lol

    • @slcurts
      @slcurts 3 года назад +3

      @@Ginger198 I do that too, and in trying to touch the reed, it sounds hugely different - like saliva getting sucked into the reed, which it is. How are we supposed to avoid that?

    • @NH-gz2kh
      @NH-gz2kh Год назад

      Nobody? I have the same q

  • @screamsodagirl1752
    @screamsodagirl1752 4 года назад +6

    I try but my mouth always hurts :(

  • @reynbow9841
    @reynbow9841 3 года назад

    I’m currently in high school and my lessons teacher how I would explain my embouchure to a younger me. She told me that you DONT constantly keep your tongue on the reed. I have auditions in a month-

  • @PinacoladaMatthew
    @PinacoladaMatthew 8 месяцев назад

    We have a whole band here that has this "breath"/"throat" tonguing tradition that everybody does it this way over decades, I was one of them until I figured that was not the proper way. I don't know how they keep not being aware of the noisy tonguing, or they are aware but just choose to ignore it.
    It is still a mystery to me....

  • @cadenanderson01
    @cadenanderson01 3 года назад +6

    I played trumpet and i just switched to clarinet.. tonguing is veerry different

    • @backunmusical
      @backunmusical  3 года назад +1

      Good call! :P

    • @cadenanderson01
      @cadenanderson01 3 года назад +1

      @@backunmusical im actually playing sax, but I have to start clarinet. So far, clarinets amazing

  • @MechanicalSpencer
    @MechanicalSpencer 2 года назад

    I am trying to unlearn the bad habit of having the tip of my tongue anchored to my lower lip or teeth and it will take awhile to learn

  • @ehr8476
    @ehr8476 6 лет назад

    Thanks

  • @ehr8476
    @ehr8476 6 лет назад

    So much

  • @scratchmaster45
    @scratchmaster45 6 лет назад

    Thanks my cousin is good

  • @slcurts
    @slcurts 3 года назад

    I've always tongued against the roof of my mouth; when I try to touch the reed, all kinds of saliva gets sucked off my tongue and into the reed gap. Not to mention that my tongue won't move the direction required to touch the reed; it jabs against the roof of my mouth fine, but not forward into the reed. I'm beginning to think I never should have been a woodwind player.

    • @AustPro
      @AustPro 2 года назад

      For the first thing I suggest putting your reed a little higher up on your mouthpiece

  • @justsomeone8963
    @justsomeone8963 2 года назад

    Oops, ive been tonguing wrong for a while. At least, i say i have been because i would like to learn this way

  • @aposteriori1594
    @aposteriori1594 3 года назад

    I was a "guh guh guh" in band hehe trying to relearn after graduating 5 1/2 years ago

    • @romeo9358
      @romeo9358 2 года назад

      i always do the "guh guh guh"😭😭

  • @colourfulbirb8359
    @colourfulbirb8359 3 года назад +2

    This is too harddd I’m getting sad ;(

  • @Jolo0316
    @Jolo0316 6 лет назад +2

    this is not helping

    • @rizzingsince1969
      @rizzingsince1969 4 года назад +2

      @Nancy Lee lmao nigga u replying to a year old comment about them having trouble with something

    • @romeo9358
      @romeo9358 2 года назад

      @@rizzingsince1969 LMAO