You can't play trombone one handed 

believe it or not, I once played with a guy called Fabio Morgera, from Italy, who won a Grammy and is in the Jazz Encyclopedia by Leonard Feather, the baddest mofo ever on a trumpet, and he had a hand amputated in his youth. You had to see it to believe it! Look him up, definitely worth it.

Gotta have great respect for teachers these days. Good ones are hard to find

And an F trigger.

@@ldbonqThe tenorbass trombone. Gotta love it..

All notes are obtainable in first (if you're a god at lip bending)

@@PutClipsHere I’m “decent” I’ve got some great range tho

@@Sorro421 I can't do it consistently, but at the most, i can maybe play 5th position notes in first after an hour of trying. I usually need a reference pitch as well. I think if you reach legend level, you might not even need the trigger for the solo. There was a joke in one of my old band classes that was "any note is first position if you go high enough," and I think that applies here.

Yea it literally do do that

did he lie? no. he still never left first position and forming a decent-solo with only the harmonics is incredibly difficult unless you play at a ridiculous range

I noticed him pissing a little trigger, thanks for the info

The video says "one hand" 🤣

It is mentioned in the video

Lol

wells he is at a show,

I met him once. I think he genuinely loves playing and having fun with music. He comes across as humble and he’s not afraid to make fun of himself.

@@jesseyoung9654 Doesn't mean he's not a show-off, because he *is* a bloody show-off

@@mymo_in_Bb you don’t like that huh?

@@mymo_in_Bb he's showing off at a show what else is he supposed to do

It is a key changing valve

@@cartesiancoordinates7758 I was joking

Hey ThatOneGuyValk, my friend Kelvin said that there's nothing more underwhelming than your mother's face and your dad's muscular strength. He said it's pathetic.

@@JoshuaM47644 that is hilarious how that went with my comment

The superbone

not too hard to notate, too hard to play

actually i think it's because the bassist accidentally pings too hard after the trumpet finishes and distracts morrison, the trombone isn't playing anything in that bar

Wdym, he is using the harmonic series and the F trigger. Are you a bone player?

@@plunger9165 No, I only play with my own bone at night. But in all seriousness, I don't play it or know much about it. But as far as I know, you need to move the pipe and/or push buttons to get different notes, right?

@@paddotk So there are 7 fundamental positions on a standard Bb tenor trombone. 1st position is the slide all the way in (I am sure you already now this). The harmonic series are the notes you can play wall in first position (you can play all octaves of Bb in 1st position). So Pedal Bb, Bb, F, Bb, D, F, (flat) Ab, Bb, C, D, E (kind of), F and so on. So you can see as you go higher, the notes tend to get closer together so in the low register you can only go from Bb to F but in the high register you can go from C to D which therefore allows you to have an extend range compared to the low register which is why for Most of this solo he plays in the upper register. Now the trigger is called and F attachment because it increases the total tubing of the trombone by 6 positions which will put it in the key of F (so this will make it fundamentally lower in pitch) and so basically if you engage the trigger, because an F is a fifth from Bb, all the harmonic series I said above will be shifted up a fifth and then down an octave. Triggers are usually there to help out in the low range but can also be utilised in the high range as Morrison displays here, for example you can do a Bb above the staff in first position but you can’t do the C above it (middle C) but if you engage the trigger you can play that C because it will put it technically in sixth position and because you can play that lower C in 6h position you can now play the higher C (middle C). These are just the basics of how the trombone works and the science of its tubing. If you have any questions let me know (:

James is also using a trombone with an F trigger you can tell by the extra pipes around the main tuning slide, if you are not experienced in the instrument you will probably have a straight tenor which does not have the trigger it is only the slide you have to change the notes (apart from the harmonic series). Once you advance and become more intermediate (if you do) you will be introduced to the Bb/F trombone (trombone with trigger) this is for most genres the trombone plays in; orchestras, marching bands, concert bands and brass bands but if you consider jazz to be more of your taste then you will most likely stick with the straight tenor.

@@plunger9165 Thanks for the elaborate explanation! It's pretty clear in overall (I assume with 'Bb' you mean B minor right?), but what I don't get is how exactly you play different notes/octaves with one position. With the trigger I can picture two positions and thus notes, but what other actions/positions are there besides sliding to play different notes?

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He is clearly using the trigger for F/6th position which gives you the G, A, B, D-flat, E-Sharp from F upwards. Also the E-flat and C below the F on the way down at the end of the solo. Basically the above the F it is the same as 2nd valve on a trumpet or 2nd position on the trombone. Above the F that is all you need to get all the semitones. Then the skill to apply the articulation etc.

It’s still a lot of practice to do that. Like telling a trumpet player to play the one section of carnival of Venice with only one finger. Sure you can do it but you don’t just sight read it.

No one said he wasn't using a trigger? What are you trying to defend?

He still used one hand so what is your point

music literally sas "T" to indicate where he pulls the trigger

The T is over any notes which he uses the trigger for

@@jaqthetrombone okay thank you ! Impressive that you recognize the trigger event if you don't see the trombone !

read the description, the trigger use is notated within the transcription too

Double trombone??? I've never heard anyone ever call a trombone with an F attachment as such (That's more a french horn thing in my experience). Nothing wrong or misleading with simply calling a tenor trombone with valve a trombone imo, and it's not like they are uncommon either.

@@lindsaygibson2142 idk this dude a weirdo cause f attachment is just a standard trombone but with a trigger, only thing i could think he meant was bass since double kinda indicates two triggers

the greatest bl*w job i have ever seen without the yuck though