Chapters

Introduction

Long note shortened sound

The two parameters : attack and lenght

The attack and its subtleties

How to notate these subtleties

The length : return of the tongue on the reed

Example without the tongue to stop the sound

Example with the tongue to stop the sound

Example with putting a little accent on the end

Notation of these sounds

Slap tonguing

Several ways of slap tonguing

The inverted slap

Slap with resonance

Shorter slap

Slap by relaxing the mouth and keeping tongue on the reed

Slap with the mouth open

Art of Metal II, Yan Robin (Bar 33 et seq.)

Growl and flutter-tongue

Growling with the throat

Flutter-tonguing with the tongue

Difficulty : flutter-tongue in high register

Solution : to use double or triple-tonguing

Crescendo of staccato turning into flutter-tonguing

7.TONGUING

Discover contemporary extended techniques

Gérard GRISEY, Partiels, Ed. Ricordi, Milan, 1975.

Yann ROBIN, Art of Metal II, Ed. Jobert, Paris, 2007.