Tounging or Sluring

[john swinton]

I was wondering, how many slur when playing a scale or an arpegio, or tounge it.

[Bloomfield]

It all depends on the phrasing, I'd think.

[john swinton]

thats true

but generally, do you tounge or slur

[Bloomfield]

I do both. Less tonguing than some perhaps, but more than none at all. Very much depends on what sort of music you are trying to play, I'd think.

[StevieJ]

But generally, do you tounge or slur

John, you should realize that Bloomfield doesn't tounge. He lounges. I hope he won't consider that a slur on his reputation.

[FJohnSharp]

thats true

but generally, do you tounge or slur

I think that question is essentially unanswerable in it's basic form. It's like asking do you drive fast or slow?

[Nanohedron]

thats true

but generally, do you tounge or slur

I think that question is essentially unanswerable in it's basic form. It's like asking do you drive fast or slow?

True. To clarify for my own situation, slurring is the basic groundwork overall, with occasional tounging and throating to serve various purposes such as accentuating certain triplets or phrases, especially for particular rhythmic emphasis.

[FJohnSharp]

But, my tongueing philosophy is this (which I cannot claim as my own but was taught by a guy who knows)

Mostly legato (which he didn't actually call it but I'm classically trained) with tongueing for special effect or in certain tunes that call for it or for phrasing or for articulation. All those add up to not too often. If you aren't sure, err to the side of less is better.

I used to drive fast but now I drive slower.

[Wombat]

For Irish music, not a lot of tonguing, even when jumping around on big intervals. (Like a lot of people, I probably tongue more than I think I do.) In other styles I tongue a lot more. I play quite different decorations in blues and more jazzy pieces involving flutter tonguing and odd things with the throat that probably come from my saxophone background. You would not be welcome doing this stuff at your local session I would think.

[john swinton]

OK i shoudent have asked.



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im getting attaked by angry philosophers

[Nanohedron]

OK i shoudent have asked.



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im getting attaked by angry philosophers

I wasn't angry. I was being helpful, I thought. As for any posts letting you know that your question was incomplete, you might thank those posters for giving you the opportunity to expand your chops at critical thinking.

And you should have asked, as you wanted to know. Nobody said your question was stupid. They did say it was hard to answer. That's not the same thing. So: not only did you get answers, you got more bang for your buck into the bargain!

[s1m0n]

Yes.

[Wombat]

OK i shoudent have asked.



HEEEEEEELLLLLLP
im getting attaked by angry philosophers

Steady on John, you got a lot of sensible advice and might even get more if we continue on topic. Everybody around here gets razzed for careless expression, even me.

BTW, I'm probably the only professional philosopher to reply and I was neither angry nor attacking you.

[amar]

i guess it all depends on whom you're playing with. For example, i never slur with lorna.

[Redwolf]

You're missing a category. A good player doesn't tongue all the time or slur all the time, but does what the music seems to demand when the music appears to demand it.

Redwolf