"Double Stroke" instead of "Double Thumb"

[Lackey]

Hey all, a while back I realized double thumb was too difficult to incorporate into my style of slapping. I play with the the thumb slightly pointing downwards, which makes "upstrokes" nigh impossible. So, I started playing with what I can only describe as double strokes, i.e., my thumb slaps the string twice very rapidly. (hit,rebound,hit,pause). I've also managed to squeeze a pluck on the same string in between slaps, enabling me to get fast percussive single string lines, (slap,slap,pluck,..).

Just curious if anyone else has learned this instead of/in addition to the "proper" double thumb technique?

[john keates]

What you just describes sounds exactly like what I do. This leaves me wondering what "proper thumb technique is".

[oversoul]

what you are doing also fits in the technique that wooten often describes, acctually he also encouraged that variation of 2 downstrokes combined with standard double-t in a video lesson, in order to get different rythmic feels. Now doing those 2 downs and the adding a pluck seems pretty nice, I suggest you keep developing that to new levels.