TromboneChat

Folks, I have started a series about a subject close to my heart, trombone double tonguing in jazz and improvised music.

This post is the first in a series. When this series is completed it will form a manifesto of sorts, not quite book, not quite technical study, and longer than an essay. I hope to dispel some myths floating around the trombone world and share a technique that I think can help people take their playing to greater heights.
Feel free to comment here or on substack and angrily shake your fist or wag your tongue at me!

https://jacobgarchik.substack.com/p/dou ... and-profit

Good job. You sound great! I didn't read every word (so many distractions here today) but I read most of it and listened to your playing. I like what you wrote and how you played. Loved what you had to say about fast playing, too.

I do a mix of soft-double and doodle tonguing. It depends on what register I'm in and whether I'm crossing partials up or down. I'm don't know anyone else who does it like that. I guess I'm just weird.

jacobgarchik wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 2:30 pm Folks, I have started a series about a subject close to my heart, trombone double tonguing in jazz and improvised music.

This post is the first in a series. When this series is completed it will form a manifesto of sorts, not quite book, not quite technical study, and longer than an essay. I hope to dispel some myths floating around the trombone world and share a technique that I think can help people take their playing to greater heights.
Feel free to comment here or on substack and angrily shake your fist or wag your tongue at me!

https://jacobgarchik.substack.com/p/dou ... and-profit

Great post!!! Very much agree with all of your myths busted. Very interesting to me that Steve Davis and Marshall Gilkes use this "da-der da-der" or "tere tere" articulation, which is severely underrated (and basically unknown to most brass players today), but really was one of the most standard ways of tonguing on all wind instruments for several centuries. Even as late as 1830 it's what a certain trombone method defined as "double tonguing" (not "tuku tuku"!) and the "main way of articulating on the trombone".

tbdana wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 6:16 pm I do a mix of soft-double and doodle tonguing. It depends on what register I'm in and whether I'm crossing partials up or down. I'm don't know anyone else who does it like that. I guess I'm just weird.

I do domething similar, with the "tere tere" type of double, and doodle.

Thanks for the comments! It really is remarkable how many different approaches there are.

I've posted a second essay, comparing double tonguing and doodle tonguing in depth.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jacobgarc ... Share=true