Exercise 12

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Exercise 12 is to learn hard tonguing.

To play exercise 12

• Take a huge, deep low breath controlled from Place #6
• Tongue each quarter note as hard as you possible can
• Tongue the whole note as hard as you possibly can and hold it out with a full tone for four beats

You can go up or down by half steps. If you have problems tonguing cleanly then play 8 or 16 quarter notes instead of 4.

This is an exercise using exaggeration. If possible see if you can get the air pressurized behind your tongue. Try not to hold the air back by tightening your voicebox! Let it be held back by your the tip of your tongue.

If you clam or break or sputter every note that's fine. Just tongue hard!