Didgeridoo

[sickstring]

I got a didgeridoo about 2 years ago... can't do anything on it, can do the basic noise. I was wondering if anybody had a good explaination of circular breathing? I've looked up some tutorials but they don't help. also, does anyone know how to make some cool sounds on a didge? thanks.

[Crumbumonkey5]

We used a have a didge player in our band, we put in through loads of effects once; it was great fun. I don't think there is too much you can do with them to be honest.

[something vague]

We have a couple of them in my house.

They're sort of annoying.

[Puzzle]

talk to an oboe player bout the circular breathing. The idea is that your breathing is continuous. You breathe in as you blow out. I can't do it, I'm a strings man. an interesting thing about them though is that they're supposed to put you in an altered state of consciousness if you play them right.

[something vague]

I think that's just when people decide to you use them as pipes.

[bassist_for_a_band]

I think my band's director said he learned circular breathing by pouring some water in his mouth, then trying to spit it out while breathing in through his nose

something like that...?

[zhyla]

I don't think there is too much you can do with them to be honest.

I dunno, I saw this guy playing down at this "park" that is all museums and gardens and stuff, people were crowded around watching him. He got a lot of different sounds out of it and also had some percussive stuff going on (banging things, can't remember what). I was pretty impresseed.

[sickstring]

yeah, there's loads you can do with them. I know how to circular breathe... just can't do it. :P guess it's just practice. I think the altered state of consciousness is just folklore, though. dunno. I haven't had any enlightening thoughts while playing it...

[Crumbumonkey5]

I've seen some guy do some pretty sick stuff with a didge but he was like this one man band of ethnic instruments, no one thing on it's own was particularly special

[Manky_phish]

I just taught myself how to circular breathe then. I've played French Horn and Trumpet for 7 years and I only just learned! It's pretty easy, but its hard to put into words. I just sorta push my tongue up to expel the air while I'm breathing in.

[Fraggy]

http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Study/CircularBreathing.html
^^easy as pie^^

[kingurth]

You need to practice A LOT for circle breathing.

The way I learned how was filling a glass up with water, then sticking a straw in and trying to blow bubbles while breathing through my nose. The trick is that you fill your mouth up with air and use that air to make the noise, not the air directly from your lungs. As long as you keep your mouth full of air, you've got a continuous flow of air comming out if it. It's a little tricky, but you can keep your mouth full of air and breathe normally through your nose at the same time.

It takes a lot of practice to make it smooth though. I haven't even mastered it yet.

[MattyBlade]

I have one, they make beat boxing REALLY fun.

[fwqhgads ²]

My friend plays the Didgeridoo. He's getting really good at it.

[Didgeman]

Hi,

I found this chat group and it'sall very interesting. I'm pretty sure that I'm the didge playing one man band that someone saw. If anyone has any questions about didgerdioo feel free to ask.

Didgeman

www.didgemandidgeridoos.com

[aria333]

ok for all you people that think they are good at didge but havent been tuaght by an aboriginie then you need to get a grip

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

ok for all you people that think they are good at didge but havent been tuaght by an aboriginie then you need to get a grip

area are you trying to imply that only aborignes can be good at didge

because just because most non-aborignal didge players suck doesn't mean that aboriginals are the only ones who can know how to do it properly

you must see that...

[aria333]

yeah white ppl can do it properly if aboriginies teach it to them

they might learn the technique somehow on there own but aboriginal music theory is not exactly the simplest thing and it is very hard for white people who dont know certain aboriginal languagesto learn it

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

yeah white ppl can do it properly if aboriginies teach it to them

they might learn the technique somehow on there own but aboriginal music theory is not exactly the simplest thing and it is very hard for white people who dont know certain aboriginal languagesto learn it

Now i totally get what you are saying

you're totally right

[Didgeman]

Aboriginal language does play a role in aboriginal playing as the pronounciation is very different from ours as are the time signatures. I've learned just as many great tips and techniques from 'non-aboriginals', austalian or not, as I have from aboriginals.

Besides, what does 'aboriginal' mean? What does 'non-aboriginal' mean?
What is 'didgeridoo'?
What is 'Yidaki'?
What does the term 'authenctic aboriginal didgeridoo' mean to you?
What is 'traditional music'?

I have my answers to all of these questions but that doesn't make them right or wrong; yours may be the same or they may not be the same.

I think it's important that everyone wanting to seriously talk about didge should ask themselves these questions and find their own answers, hopefully by first hand experience.

[aria333]

ok i still bet an aboriginie could smoke u on didge

[joshmay]

aria, what's your point? he responded to your comment with an intelligent response, and then you come back with this unjustified statement in an attempt to, what, make you feel better about yourself not being able to play didge as good as this dude? or not being as good at life in general? quit the bullshit...

[Didgeman]

*Thank you joshmay.*
I just want to encourage more people to play this instrument and I know that it's not easy figureing it out on your own. I've tought a lot of people how to play and it seems to me that this whole chat group is filled with questions on how to play. Didgeridoo can be so many different things to different people. I just stumbled across a website yesterday. This guy uses didge as a healing tool; he says he is a healer and that this is his calling. Pretty incredible stuff.

http://www.soundmindsoundbody.ca/

I think it's what he puts in to the didge, not the didge itself; well maybe a bit of the didge.
For example. I play didge but I don't think I could physically heal someone's pain with it.
What do you folks think of this didge healing?