Tonguing in Traditional Irish Flute Playing

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Hi I'm David Cantieni on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to be sharing with you some useful techniques for practicing the Irish style flute. Using the tongue or tonguing as it is called in traditional music is often not well addressed. In classical we are always thought to tongue unless told otherwise. In traditional tunes its the other way around. Many times you here people saying you don't tongue or you generally you don't tongue. The tongue is used quit a lot but it is not use in the traditional ways that we get thought in classical music. Now tonguing is one sort of a tact. A tact means the beginning of the note. So normally we would go t t t. obviously I am not moving my jaw when I do that so it is more like tu tu tu. More common I think is a glottal stop kkk which is using the tongue also. A good reason for using more glottal type tonguing is that it keeps the sound open. It keeps it your a tu is more intrinsically more of a close mouth type sound. If you are going k you are still have that open. Something like that or ...... Now all of that was using kk I was playing right and you can interject it to give a little of arrhythmic. Okay.

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