Introduction to Doodle Tonguing on Trombone: A Masterclass by Andrew Williams 

Finally an explanation of Doodle-tonguing that actually makes sense! Simple, easy to understand and explained with warmth and patience. Thanks Andrew.

This is the best class about doodle tonguing.

I cannot begin to express my gratitude for this lesson. I've been kicking myself for over 30 years saying doodle rather than Tuh Dul Duh Dul Dah! My doodle was fast but terribly uncontrollable and impractical to use ,but your method has opened doors for me! Thank you so much

I'm getting a real Mr. Rogers feel from you

Wow, amazing playing and phrasing at the beginning of the video

Man, that was a killer lesson, my friend. Thanks so much for the great tutorial, I really do appreciate it.

This is one of the best and most patiently explained video's for tonguing I've seen. Thank you so much for posting and sharing with us on You Tube. I really look forward to seeing more of your video's

Excellent. This is the best explanation of the Doodle tongue I have ever seen! I understood and was able to follow it immediately! Thank you!

WOW! Thanks for the lesson! As an army musician, i have been looking for someone to really break this down. Thanks for your time! It's time to start hit the PR with something thats going to add to my bag of tricks.

Super ! C'est très bien expliqué et détaillé, merci beaucoup. Translate Net : Great ! This is very well explained and detailed, thank you

This really helped me, thanks.

Wow, thank you this really helped me out! I am incredibly grateful!! I have been beating my head against a wall for a while now.

Great, Andrew! You're a fantastic player and instructor!

Thank you for sharing simple routine one can make. I like to think constant fretting as an exploration of sound and a dedicated practice trains both hands and ears. Maybe keeping away from scales can in effect make learning sound less conformist and more intuitive. Trombone, I believe, is such a great tool that gives the mouth organ the freedom of articulation and expression... from the very origin of its birth. What a beautiful instrument for company in solitude.

I just started checking out that miles album! nice playing broski!

Parabéns pelo longo tempo de estudo e ensino

Obrigado por ajudar !

Very good

Excelente técnica de fraseo del jazz maestro saludos de Perú

Oh, my, God!!! So that is actually large bore horn... By Shires, in my neck of woods I guess. Maybe I should pay a visit to his factory soon.... it's not the horn you play, I know!!!! Someday, I'd like to sound just like you do when I get big! Which I'm already in my late 40s, I don't know how much bigger I can get :-) Thanks for reply, I'm looking forward to keep checking your new videos out, so long!

Máster muchas gracias por traducirlo en español !!!

Fantastic lesson, I finally got some clarity into this. I'm actually a trumpet player, but I want to master doodle tonguing either way. I'm however curious of how you manage to play the upper register with speed and flexibility using the doodle tongue, I find it hard to use my tongue to compress the air while still doodling. Any tips?

I have a concern about tongue placement. Is the tongue hitting behind the teeth? or higher up on the gumline where it meets with roof? Thank you for your input. You're a cool teacher.

I just discovered this clip, you have many, many wonderfully informative videos posted, I'm so grateful that I found them! Btw, would you tell me what kind of horn you're playing? It sounds awesome on you and I'm very curious about what it is. Looks to me a Getzen or Edwards custom large bore. If it is, and you're sounding so jazzy and small/medium bore-ish, which just is amazing to me....

Great Class! Thanks. (El subtituado en Español tiene errores)

I love doodle tonguing. Weeeee

Great class Andrew and on a large bore horn, amazing ! Loved your long tone video. At the moment I am trying to improve my high register. It's taking quite a while and I am getting some digging in my right top lip so have to take regular rests. I am trying to take pressure off the right by pivoting slightly to the top left lip. Any input would be gratefully received. Thanks.

This works as a distilled intro to the technique. McChesney is still the full resource and should be the destination for anyone who really wants to do this to the fullest. But this a nice introduction which serves a good teaching purpose.

たどだどだ Tah-dul-dah-dul-dah 4:05 Tah-dul-dah-dul-dah FACAF 7:50

yes, Excellent Excellent Excellent vidéo ... please more excercices for advance player how to get speed ? which book can help us ?

Thanks! Your teaching has been a big help to me. The standard way of teaching beginners is usually with long tones, but I've always had questions about this. Although long tones are an essential part of brass playing----why isn't doodle tonguing also taught right from the very beginning too? It sure appeals to me as a intermediate student. It sounds great, it feels great, it's inspiring and interesting. I am in favour of challenging accepted methods, such as never practice-buzzing on the mouthpiece! I have always hated buzzing. Christian Lindberg has a RU-vid video saying he never does it, and demonstrates why-----and one of the world's greatest trombonists ought to know!!

It's interesting that I can play doodle tonguing slow and fast but there is a middle area where I just can't seem to get it to work.

Máster!!!

ANNNNNDREW!!!....I was doing some late night Bob McChesney viewing and you popped up!! Hope all is well!!

Hello may friends senkiy👍👍👍

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Does your tongue go behind when you say "dul"? Thank you!

En el minuto 5:53 es tahrah o tahdah?????

Hi

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You sound like JJ

bruh put the vid speed to 1.25 and its less creepy at the start lol

I can't understand this. I hear a sound but it never says how you achieve it. I can taddledaddle in the air at 200 bpm if I want. How does this link to vibrating the lips? What do you do with the air flow?

Great instruction, Andrew! It's funny -- I made a doodle-tonguing tutorial video about a week or so ago (if you're interested, it's ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ex11aKizr6Q.html ) -- not so much for public consumption, but just because a friend asked me to help him with doodle tonguing -- but I didn't find yours until just now. I like the examples you give, of how to practice, with the 'fretted' playing, and "stuff that lies well on trombone." What cracks me up -- and I think you have a point -- is that you say "DON'T start with scales..." because that's exactly what I did, when I first learned to doodle. I saw Watrous give a clinic at the ITA in around '87, I think, and went home thinking, I have to learn how to do this! There being few (or no) books about it at the time, and no RU-vid or anything, I just decided to figure it out on my own, and I started with very slow scales, just kicking the metronome up a notch whenever the tempo started to get comfortable. It never occurred to me that scales (especially in the low register, where you have to do some faking, e.g., on a low B-flat scale) would not be the best material to start with! It did take time -- I wasn't able to use it on gigs until I'd been practicing for at least three months or so. I think your approach is better -- scales are just how I did it, figuring it out on my own. Great playing, I might add, on the intro and out-tro -- you really have that Fontana/Herwig thing going on much better than I do. Also, you do a great job illustrating that doodle is NOT just for legato -- you can get a lot more separation between notes than people tend to think! Nice work.