Slap tongue on bass clarinet - Cornelius Boots tutorial #7, 2007 "how to" instructional video;

2007-Instructional Video #7 of 7 included on the now-out-of-print Tooth & Claw Companion by Edmund Welles and Cornelius Boots.

*Sorry the quality is so poor, these files were reduced in order to fit on a CD ROM back in 2007*
But many of you have been requesting to see these now so here they are for you.
~~Cornelius B.

Full Playlist - Cornelius Boots 2007 Bass Clarinet Tutorial Series plus Power Circular Breathing Instructional Series:
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a.k.a. pop tonguing
There is no shortage of slap tongue videos these days, and many of them are useful, but honestly many of them fall short when it comes to the actual sound of what they are doing: if you really want to have access to a technique, it needs to open up a whole new range of possibilities, not one gimmick. Therefore, you must know the extreme limits of power in the technique, only then do you have access to the quieter, expressive and musical nuances within the greater continuum of sounds. Of course, in these good old days of being young, virile and playing heavy chamber music for a living, much of what I did was loud and aggressive, but you take my point: the musician is responsible for an ever-increasingly wide palette of sounds, nuances, emotions and states of consciousness.

WARNING: you can "pull your tongue" by doing this too hard, it feels like a "charlie horse" of the tongue and is no fun at all, so know your limits. You might also cut your tongue or crack your reed, so pay attention all the time, but these are rare (use real cane reeds please, synthetic materials are false magic for true woodwind wizards).

The other Videos in this old series will help to support your goals in this. Always use the many Edmund Welles recordings as your best example of how to use slap tonguing or pop tonguing effectively within a heavy chamber music compositional style.

Although I a trained at a conservatory, I am not an academic, I am a composer-performer, and rely on 1 - direct experience and 2 - what works. Theory always follows practice, and not the other way around, ultimately, David Baker taught me that. Be creative, think for yourself, expand and explode into space.

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