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Single & Double Tongue Techniques for the Saxophone

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Summary: Use single and double tonguing techniques when playing the saxophone; learn how with tips from our expert sax player in this free sax video music lesson.

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Mitch Kaplan Proficient on multiple instruments, Mitch Kaplan has performed and taught music for two decades. He is also a published author of music education books and on... read more

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by e1223

ummm if I'm not mistaking the sound "do" is for lagato? not a good example of tonguing

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Single & Double Tongue Techniques for the Saxophone

Hi! This is Mitch Kaplan for expertvillage.com. In this clip we will be talking about how to tongue the saxophone. So you will have to separate each note, and by doing so you have to touch your tip of the tongue to the tip of the reed. This will allow you to stop the air from flowing and vibrating the reed. You do so by playing and you would say the word or sound “doo”, doo, doo, doo, doo, because when you do that, when you do say “doo” you will touch the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth, and that is how you do it. In this segment we will be talking about double tonguing. This is a more advanced level technique and one would use it by saying tookko, tookko, tookko, usually it is mostly done on the flute, but there are more advanced classical or jazz playing that you would use this on. You could use it by using your throat or by trying to separate the note. I did both and you could hear when I switched over to the other way, I will try it again, there you go.

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