I FINALLY made a video of me playing the Didgeridoo. I decided to try out making a vid with my blackberry, and the sound came out much better than I would expect from a cellphone. I've been practicing for around a year now... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_1MIcMqdUM"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_1MIcMqdUM
Thanks. And that is the most I've laughed in a while. BTW, can you please explain why it is when I ask girls if they want to blow my didgeridoo, they slap me?
I pressed like?! Unless I accidentally pressed the wrong one?! If so, sorry! In any case, relax the lips and don't blow to hard. Keep adjusting the lips till you get it right. It takes some practice but it's easy enough once you get it. Once you get the drone, just keep shifting your mouth till you can get a sound with as little air as possible. Once you've got that down, start to inhale while your cheeks are puffed out. There will be a gap in playing at first, but try and get that gap shorter and shorter till, eventually, there is no gap anymore.
Oh no, that was directed to whoever is following my posts and just thumb downing them all I was told to make the sounds of vowels when playing?
Making vowel sounds are ways to modify the basic drone. You first have to get the basic drone and circular breathing down before that becomes of use. Different tongue modulations as well as breathing patterns, vocal sounds, are all commonly used. I even use my uvula (that flap at the back of your mouth.) to make REALLY fast rhythms. In Afrikaans, my native language, we have to roll our "R"s with the tongue, but I've never been able to do that, and compensated by using my uvula to simulate the sound of an "R", and did so quite effectively. That ended up becoming a huge advantage when I started playing the didge...
Same here. I don't own one though, only know a guy who does. He made his didgeridoo all on his own, which impressed me to no extent... Back to original post, :rockon:
