Double Tonguing with a Tied Note Pattern

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Ztubadude
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Double Tonguing with a Tied Note Pattern

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Is there an accepted standard approach to tonguing with a tied note passage?

For example: Quarter note tied to a sixteenth, followed by 3 sixteenths.

Do you use a KTK articulation on the 3 sixteenths, or some other strategy?

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Re: Double Tonguing with a Tied Note Pattern

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In that situation and similar I almost always do TTK.
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Re: Double Tonguing with a Tied Note Pattern

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I would make an automatic decision on the fly as to what would work better, based on the phrasing and what the actual notes are. And I think in terms of D and G, not T and K. Thinking about it, if the first articulated 16th after the tie is a lower note, I typically would use GDG, and if it's a higher note I would use DDG
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