Coordinating Fingers and Tongue

If you’re trying to work on any articulated scale passages, whether that’s part of your morning warmup or a feature of the repertoire you’re working on (and it is a feature of so much of our repertoire!), coordinating your tongue and your fingers is a really challenging aspect of clarinet playing. In this livestream, head of clarinet at tonebase, Heather Roche, will guide you through some exercises and ideas for working on improving this very specific and important bit of technique!

Let's get to work on this and do our best to achieve purrrrfection!

Please feel free to put any questions you have about this in the forum comments, or even - if you're feeling brave - upload a video of some scales played using the tongue and I'll offer some tips and feedback in the live stream!

We are going to be practicing two exercises from the Kell staccato studies during this live stream, which you can download here (if you don't already have the book) as well as my own articulation exercise, which you can download in 12 keys here, and please bring your clarinet to the stream so we can all try things together!