Posted by Alex on April 01, 2001 at 10:18:29:
In Reply to: Tonguing Faster posted by Matt A. on April 01, 2001 at 00:48:37:
That first guy is absolutely correct. There are two other things you need to think about. First of all. Don't kill yourself with this aspect of playing. Like the previous guy said it'll come. Once you start to feel your toungue drag and get tired, stop for a while. Once you start pushing it after it is tired, your just practicing a tired toungue. Also, remember the point about starting slow and gradually increasing your speed. Make sure that it is perfect every time. That is why you start off slow. To play it perfect. If you speed up a little and you mess up, that means it is not perfect at that speed yet. Slow it down a little and build back up to that speed. The point of exercising like that is that you want to trick your brain into believing that it's not speeding up. That's why you do it a little at a time. Hope I could be of service. -Alex