Time to move along a bit.   Now that we understand the placement and movement of your embouchure we are ready to go!

Let’s now add our tongue to get some nice clear playing.

Continuing on with Moyse’s book:  24 Petites Etudes Mélodiques lets have look at Studies #3 & #5

In studies 3 & 5 we now have the opportunity to work on placement of our embouchure in various registers (particularly the low register), with repeated stroke of the tongue without losing our clarity or fullness of our sound.

We prepare for these exercises - how?

Waking up our system!

• our morning Tone exercises  
• our Taffanel & Gaubert scales - EJ4 - Choose one or two scales please which are comfortable for you to play please!
• Moyse – Sonorité - page 15 #1 - keeping the tongue light and with an open sound. After you have finished playing this exercise once, now try again playing each note two times, then three times then five times. Notice the movement of your tongue and how your tone improves with repetition.

This session will be recorded and available to view until 22 July 2025