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LEARN DIDGERIDOO!
learning Didgeridoo with Marc Miethe
"Rhythms from all over the world .. Berlin Break beats.. Jazz scat-vocals .. Beat-Box ..bass grooves .. mouth percussion .. on the oldest wind instrument of the world !"
My Didgeridoo workshops are made up for beginners, advanced and the very advanced! Explore the widely-scattered possibilities from the simple wooden-tube and it's qualities as a mouth percussion - Instrument. With a lot of humour and a wide range of exercises, sounds and rhythms we will develop the first clear and powerful basic drone to varied sounds, the unspectacular circular breathing to sly rhythms and very percussive styles. For the experienced players, performing on stage or also teaching, I have a lot of tips and continually fresh grooves.
As a trained body-psycho therapist I want to share my knowledge with you about the way that I and many of my students attained a more powerful, precise, faster, more varied and at the same time considerably more relaxed way of playing. Lets find out why "the body in the real instrument", how diaphragm support, the embouchure at the mouthpiece and a proper modulation and compression of the air might help you. To translate playing onto paper, I use a notation which matches as exactly as possible what I'm actually doing with my tongue, for example.
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The "Didgeridoo"... can you tell me what it is?
The Didgeridoo (or Yidaki, Bamboo) is the traditional wind instrument of some Australian Aborigine tribes, who have played it for at least 40 000 years in their ceremonies. The inside of a trunk- or branch from the Eucalyptus tree is hollowed out by termites. The Player produces a deep-tone and at the same time varies the overtones trough tongue movements, singing and "pumping" lung pressure drops. Playing the Didgeridoo requires a "Circular Breathing" technique which allows a constant tone to be produced and held.
How ever you write it: "Didgereedoo, Digeridoo, Didjeridoo, Didjeridu, Didjerido, Didgerido, Didgeridu, Didgeredoo, Digiridoo oder Digerido" are no traditional names for the Yidaki.
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What you might learn ... as beginner
- brilliant, powerful basic drone without not intended noise
- loud, but at the same time relaxed playing
- singing, precise harmonics / overtones
- varied basic sounds with belly, voice, throat, cheeks, jaw, lips & tongue
- circular breathing techniques
- basic rhythms, pattern, rhythm components
- foundation of rhythm notation
- Tips about: history, instrument tuning, maintenance, building Didgeridoos by yourselves
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... as advanced and professionals
- further circular breathing skills ("out-pop" breathing), breathing economy
- connecting sounds & power rhythm didgeridoo
- rhythm training & timing exercises
- break beat techniques, sly rhythms, 2/4, ¾, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 7/4, …
- basis for improvisation, free playing
- piece building, arrangement, energy, big cycles
- speech / vocal rhythms from various parts of the world
- impulses to find your own style
- trombone didgeridoo / slide didgeridoo techniques and melody lines
- band communication, playing with other instruments
- Tips about: didgeridoo recording, live technique, stage situation
- impulses for didgeridoo teacher, teaching method
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Didgeridoo lessons, workshops, classes
intensive didgeridoo workshop
two days - 4 hours each day
(min. 4, max. 10 participants)
in Berlin: beginner & little advanced
out of Berlin: beginner & little advanced
or advanced and professionals
introductory didgeridoo workshop
(for beginner)
3 hours (min. 3, max. 15 participants)
continuous Didgeridoo course
(one for beginner / little advanced
and one for advanced / professionals)
every week - alternating beginner and advanced,
2 1/2 hours Wednesdays evenings (min. 3, max. 6 participants)
Individual didgeridoo lessons
(all levels, also professionals)
60 minutes - individual - face to face,
date by agreement
Individual small groups
(all levels, also professionals)
80 minutes (2 or 3 participants),
date by agreement
School workshops (for classes)
max. 30 participants, date by agreement
Show workshop (info on request)
Didgeridoos can be provided on request.
Check out the actual didgeridoo workshop dates
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Copyright © 2003-5 by Marc Miethe, Didgeridoo-Berlin.
last update: november 10 2005
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