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Triple Tongue with the Metronome
As a hornist you can go a while between times you perform works that you really have to triple tongue. Composers and arrangers tend to not call for triplet passages that are fast enough to require triple tonguing in horn parts. But occasionally they come up; you have to have this technique worked out.
For me I have some triple tonguing coming in an upcoming performance. It was not obvious as I first worked on the music, as I was not using a metronome. When I went into it this weekend with the metronome however, it was clear I would have to triple tongue the passages in question and get the triple tonguing going again right away.
If multiple tonguing is a technique you have never worked out well there is no way around it, you will have to work this out sooner or later. Get to it now to avoid the crunch time later.
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