Triple/double tounging

[flute.loops16]

Can I have someone show me a link or even tell me the best way to...
Wait no.
I don't even know what it is I think.
Double and triple tounging in like when you speak Spanish, you roll the R, you know, and then you make your air stream go down. Is that double or triple tounging? You can probably guess I'm pretty clueless.
Can I have help summarizing triple and double tounging?

[flutepicc06]

Can I have someone show me a link or even tell me the best way to...
Wait no.
I don't even know what it is I think.
Double and triple tounging in like when you speak Spanish, you roll the R, you know, and then you make your air stream go down. Is that double or triple tounging? You can probably guess I'm pretty clueless.
Can I have help summarizing triple and double tounging?

Rolling your R's is actually flutter tonguing, which is another topic in itself. Multiple tonguing is simply a way to articulate faster by breaking the airstream with different parts of the tongue. Normally double tonguing would use the syllables Tuh-Kuh-Tuh-Kuh (or Duh-Guh-Duh-Guh), though whatever works in a given circumstances is fine. Basically, the first note will be articulated with the tip of the tongue, as usual, but after that follows a stroke further back on the tongue. Triple tonguing uses the same syllables, but in a Duh-Guh-Duh Duh-Guh-Duh or Duh-Guh-Duh Guh-Duh-Guh pattern (of course, Tuh and Kuh can be used as well as other syllables for different tongue placement. This increases the speed at which you can articulate, but single tonguing should be used if at all possible.

[flute.loops16]

So how would I start practicing double tounging? Or rather, what is an exercise I can do to make my tounge understand (I feel so dumb, I'm trying to get out the right words and they're not coming out! XD).

[flutepicc06]

So how would I start practicing double tounging? Or rather, what is an exercise I can do to make my tounge understand (I feel so dumb, I'm trying to get out the right words and they're not coming out! XD).

Well, first start it out really slowly on one pitch (something high resistance like E3 is good, as the extra pressure can actually make it easier to get your tongue moving). On that note, very slowly alternate your syllables of choice until you're comfortable with the placement of your tongue at each point. Then start to speed it up (using a metronome to be sure each stroke is even). Start tonguing twice at 72 BPM and work it up as fast as you can get it (hopefully somewhere in excess of 160 in the long run, though that's not likely to happen immediately). Then bump it back down and try to get 4 strokes into each beat, and speed it up as before. Somewhere in there you should start incorporating double tonguing into scales practice (4 strokes on each pitch, then two, then one), so you can get used to changing pitch as you double tongue. Then try flipping the syllables around (so it would be Kuh-Tuh-Kuh-Tuh) to help you be sure that each stroke is receiving equal emphasis. Pretty much any piece of music can become an exercise for tonguing if you break things into subdivisions.