Mejora de la calidad del doble picado en el clarinete mediante las tecnologías

Abstract

The double tonguing is generally considered too complex to play on the clarinet.The goal is to use ICT to improve the quality of the double tonguing on the clarinet.Bibliography is searched using the search string “Clarinet AND double-tonguing ANDICT”. A pilot test is also carried out with 13 participants with at least the Certificate ofProfessional Clarinet Teaching. 2 exercises were recorded on two occasions. The firstwas an initial test to assess the knowledge about double tonguing of each participantand the second analyzed the improvement after using ICT. Between each recording,29 exercises were provided to work the technique for 8 weeks. The technological toolsused were Audacity (to record), ZyMi (to study the exercises and recordings), Sibelius7(to write the exercises) and Sonic Visualiser (to observe the objective evolution of thetechnique with spectrograms showing the defects when perform the exercises). Afterlistening to the recordings and analyzing the colors and shapes resulting from thespectrograms in Sonic Visualiser, it was observed that in the first recording the quality of the double tonguing was quite poor, mainly in the high and high registers. In thelast recording, all the participants managed to do both exercises with high quality inall registers. In conclusion, the use of ICT was essential for the participants to improvethe stability of the tempo when playing with the metronome, the loudness and thearticulation with the instrument when using the auditory and visual sense togetherin the spectrograms.