The further front the tongue is, the smaller the vibrating air space between the tongue and the lips gets, the shorter the overtone wave oscillates and the higher is the overtone. Depending on the melody, the tongue moves from back to front and back. In didging and whistling overtones are produced with the help of vowels (A-E-I-O-U and so”). Basically, you’re doing nothing but “modulating out” overtones from a tonal mix. But you can imagine what’s meant, or imitate a wind with “CH”. Say “Waltzing Matilda” or “Yankee Doodle” or “Whisky in the Jar”. Just whistle any old song you’ve been fond of since you were a child. Still mystical? Maybe a practical example is helpful. Higher ones actually do sound like whistling and deeper ones more bell-like. So one doesn’t just play a basic tone, but parallel to it hears the overtones. When you do that, they get “whistlingly” audible above the basic tone. Put pictorially, overtones are the ingredients of a “tonal salad” from which you can “pick them out” again. Every natural tone is a mixture of varyingly high overtone waves. In fact, without them, you couldn’t even speak normally, much less play the didgeridoo. At any rate, it’s something mystical, right? It was in physics, wasn’t it? And then there are these Tibetans … or was it Mongols? … that did overtone singing.

“Overtones?” Ring a bell? You’ve probably heard the term. We’ll deal with probably the most important muscle in didge playing: the TONGUE! 4) didgeridoo tutorial: The Overtones with vowels This time we’ll try to make the sound not only louder but also more precise and “sharper”. In the previous edition, I talked about the basics of diaphragm support/compression and the Embouchure at the mouthpiece.

piece building, arrangement, energy development, speech rhythms from various parts of the world, trombone didgeridoo techniques and melody lines, band communication, didgeridoo recording, live technique, stage situation). breakbeats) and many other tips for didgeridoo players on the way to becoming musicians on the plan (e.g. The book is to be published together with a tutorial DVD and in addition to the themes addressed here will contain many exercises for voice use, cheek modulation, “wok” sounds/tongue push, circular breathing, breathing economy, “rhythm building blocks”, overblows and sound links.įor far advanced players there is a large collection of rhythms with “fiddly” techniques (e.g. Magazine with tutorials on basic techniques. This didgeridoo tutorial is both an abridged excerpt from my as yet unpublished tutorial manuscript “Urban Didgeridoo” and the first part of a small series in Didgeridoo & Co.

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