Exercise 6

Exercise 6 is designed to give you light fast tonguing and to work on the coordination and timing of the air.

To play this exercise

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• All the notes other than C should be louder than C
• The change in dynamics occurs during the change between notes
• Make sure you don't rush off the first note of each beat
• Do the exercise 2 ways; first as written then do the first 13 notes Slow to Fast

Players who habitually stop notes with the tongue may have trouble playing this lightly and quickly. The problem occurs when the notes are both started and stopped with the tongue or the tongue gets 'stuck' and full of tension. The Slow to Fast part of this exercise really reveals this problem and can be used to fix it.

Exercise 6 can also be used to teach transposing and double tonguing.