High Range Double Tongueing

[Atoastedtrmb]

Hi, hope yall are all having a wonderful day. Recently I’ve been trying to work on my slower double tongueing capabilities and have been practicing my scales with only my double tongue to get better at it as well as playing Rochuts with only a double tongue. Well I’ve been encountering some difficulties double tongueing cleanly past Eb 5 when I practice this “slow” double tongueing (160 to 200 bpm). However when I go at full speed the scales sound fine and all is well. Any advice would be appreciated. And on the subject, what do yall do to instantly transition from something like a turn to double tongueing in the higher registers (let’s just say high register in this specific context = G 4 and up)

[tbdana]

One thing I've found double-tonguing up above high C or D is that I have to use a very light tongue, not even completely interrupting the air flow, with all the motion moved forward close to the teeth. The higher it goes, the lighter the tongue, until it feels like just a little flick.

This is how I have to do it, because I cannot doodle tongue well above high C, especially descending, so I switch to this very light double-tongue, and that seems to sound pretty good.

BTW I love slow double-tonguing. There is no lower limit to using a double-tongue, and practicing it in the tempo range you're doing really nails the technique down. Good job!

[Atoastedtrmb]

Thank you, I've been working on it slowly to nail down the technique as well as trying to smooth it out for use in jazz. I've always struggled with learning how to doodle tongue and so I've just stuck with double tonguing. Its getting better but I notice that when it gets really fast I do back to playing very staccato. Any advice on that topic would be really helpful as well. I'm still confused as to why it sounds fine when I go very fast as opposed to slow? Maybe overthinking the technique? Too much pressure (something I've struggled with extensively)? Probably some mixture of a variety of things as these problems usually are.