Here, we talk about didgeridoo ! I'm Gauthier Aubé and playing and teaching didgeridoo is my job. With Wakademy, my online didgeridoo school and this Channel, My goal is to offer you concrete advice based on the observation of the body to allow you to progress quickly to develop the intuitive approach. Long life to the didgeridoo!
Par ailleurs, je ne sais pas si je suis le seul dans ce cas, mais je trouve extrêmement difficile de revenir sur un rythme après être passé sur des variations, surtout si il y a un changement au niveau des temps forts, contre-temps, etc. Du coup j'essaie d'en faire une "photo" en mode wakatoo, mais ça reste pas très fluide... tu as une recette magique 😋? Sorry pour les nons-francophone... j'imagine qu'une gentille IA fera la traduction 😋
Je te comprends ! C'est effectivement une des grosses difficultés. J'ai eu beaucoup de mal pendant longtemps. Un truc qui m'a bien aidé est d'enregistrer les deux parties et de les coller l'une à l'autre pour pouvoir les ré-écouter encore et encore. En revanche, ça demande un peu de matériels (quoique un téléphone suffirait pour ce genre de mémo) et surtout un peu de connaissance technique avec les logiciel d'enregistrement (c'est la base et ça ira vite à apprendre). Pour résumer : 1. Tu te mets un métronome dans une oreille 2. Tu enregistres le premier rythme avec le micros de ton téléphone (12 fois d'affiler suffisent par exemple) 3. Tu enregistres le second rythme (toujours avec le métronome) 4. Ensuite, tu importes les deux fichiers audio dans la même piste de ton séquenceurs (il en existe des gratuits). 5. Tu découpes le premier rythme en laissant 4 répétions et pareil avec le second. 6. Tu les colles l'un à l'autre. 7. Et tu écoutes encore et encore jusqu'à ce que ça rentre. Perso, ça m'a beaucoup aidé.
Merci pour ce tuto toujours bien clair. Ça fait un moment que je cherche sans succès un genre de "do's and dont's" de la structure rythmique, pour avoir plus de liberté dans la composition. Tu aurais des pistes ?
C'est une vaste question à laquelle je ne pourrais répondre juste comme ça en commentaire. Mais je note ça dans ma (longue) liste d'idées pour une prochaine vidéo !
Super tuto, merci Gauthier 😋 C'est super complet comme exercice, aussi bien niveau rythmique que pour la précision. Tu nous en ferais encore avec d'autres monuments du didge 😋?
I have used and adapted this rythme since we decorticated it at one of your workshops. I cannot play it as fast as Ash Dargan, but it is great to play.
Thank you for another great lesson! I really needed this instruction today. 🌿 We had FIVE didgeridoo players show up at the big Eureka Springs drum circle Saturday night. Didgeridoos are getting more popular, and so many people are curious about the didgeridoo. I think your great channel is going to get more and more popular! Thank you for what you do.
Thank you for your comment! It's quite challenging for me to develop in English, so I'm happy to read your comment. :-) Hope your "Eureka Springs drum circle" was great. 👍 Maybe one day, I will come in US to teach and play, it will be great!
nice greetings. thank you for the great tips on how to learn circular breathing. unfortunately I'm stuck at the last step, I can't relax my lips. do you have any other practical tips on how to make it work? It works great through pursed lips, but I can't relax them and maintain circular breathing. Please help Prikaži citirani tekst
You could send me a short video of yourself to show me on WhatsApp and I might be able to guide you: wa.me/message/NRMMBFQ5X6NLH1 It's something I reserve for my students who take my online course "The Art of Didgeridoo", but I'd be happy to help you! Just remind me the context and this conversation, I've got a lot of messages.
It's mean that the An arrow extends the sound of the previous card. For example, for "to WA ti ->", the "ti ->" lasts as long as the "to WA". This makes it possible to write rhythms with longer or shorter sounds. If you get lost, listen to the rhythm and you'll hear that the "ti" lasts longer than the "to" or the "WA". Is that clearer?
I'm not sure I understand the question but I'll try to answer: I don't speak into the didgeridoo, but I do articulate the sounds. In other words, I'll say "to WA ke" for example, but I won't use my voice (unless I want to create an effect). It's basically the same for all didgeridoo sounds. And I will breath on the WA. As for breathing, it comes up a lot because the rhythm of the didgeridoo is built around it. I talk about it in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XxlnduK4OjU.html Does that answer your question?
This was a great video that helped me to organize my "packets" in a more structured way. Now all I gotta do is remember the first set of packets after I play for awhile, I tend to go into a trance lol. Thanks for the information! Also great tip to play with a metronome!!!🎉
@WakademyDidgeridooSchool Here in Portland, Oregon, we just might have a didgeridoo community, lol. Not going to play, but I'm definitely going to listen more. :)
I'm a beginner of two days. I have watched a lot of videos to breathe through the nose while playing but I cannot seem to get the hang of it which means I run out of air.
Hi! Did you check my frisson's lessons about circular breathing? It's here: is.gd/XWgZpP And if you need help, just send me a very quick video (1 min it's enough) on whatsApp, I will help you (for free of course): wa.me/message/NRMMBFQ5X6NLH1 Juste remember me the context (I receive a lot of messages). You will do it!
@@WakademyDidgeridooSchool I wrote a response but I don't think it went through. Thank you for your response. I have signed up to your lessons. If I need further help, I will send you a message on what's app with a video and refer to the context of our conversation here on you tube. Thank you for your help. It's appreciated.
@@oneglobeoneloveofficial OK 👍 I'm a bit late with my emails, but I didn't see your email... Anyway, don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. I'm here to help!
@@WakademyDidgeridooSchool a bit confused. I signed up for your free 8 lessons on circular breathing and will start working on it. If I find I'm struggling I will WhatsApp message you with a 1 minute video and refer to this you tube conversation for context. Does that make sense?
Oh Great! That's the power of metronome and small breathing. All the secret of playing great rhythm in the didgeridoo is there. Keep going! And see you for the next video. :D
I find another reason being the amount of thought you spend while playing. Remember your brain needs air to think. If you're on a happy balance with your air and you start observing, thinking, planning mentally, you can easily lose your balance. So how to fix this? Incorporate your patterns into your body and let your body play, not your mind. Trust yourself and don't analyze while playing. Analyze your recordings after the fact.
Yes, that could be an avenue (although I don't know whether thoughts consume oxygen in such a significant way). However, as far as observing the game is concerned, I'd still encourage you to observe while you're playing too, but try to be as detached as possible, because it's in the action that the observation will take place. It's all up to me!
I really do like how passionate you are when speaking about Ash Dargan style, this is the best way to transmit your passion and invite us to do as well, thanks a lot
Great input, once more! I love you english videos, and my French isn't good enough to get everything in your French videos, but I try anyway, so, so much information!! It takes time to get through, but you became one of my frequent didg teacher online, calm, clear, and good content. 5/5!! Merci beaucoup 🙏🏻☺️
Great video again. My Ash Dargan rhytm is starting to get natural to play now. Your english is perfect. I am very busy now in the summer, but i have been thinking about getting lessons from you in the autumn. What is your lessons in €?
Hi! Im' not giving anymore individual lessons because I don't have time for it (Wakademy take a big part of my time). But I have the online courses lessons for the basic technics: is.gd/mwrCuD You will have my personal feedback In audio each month during 6 months. I know it's not personal lesson but my students are happy with the support! But maybe you are an advanced didgeridoo player, so then I will launch a new online course about the 7 circular breathing this summer.
Great video Gauthier. Only one specification, technically the toot sound is not an overtone. This is a very widespread misunderstanding in the didjeridoo world. In fact, the overtones are multiples of the frequency of the fundamental, which does not happen for the didgeridoo. Technically the toot is a melodic interval. A hug and good work!
Thanks for the precision, I didn't know that. But I'm going to keep this term anyway because I prefer to call it that rather than "toot". Because, for me, toot limits the understanding of the possibilities because it's an onomatopoeia that seems to say that you're creating an "overtone" with just a t (not to mention the t at the end which makes no sense). In short, I'm nitpicking but it seems important to me! Hope you are well!
@@Luke-ih1oc Yes! Im' totally agree, I really don't like "toot"! I used to call them "Overtone" also. But sometimes I still call him like most English-speaking players... I'll remember your comment and I'll be talking about overtone now ;-)
Yes, you are right. I didn't speak about it. Arrow mean that's the sound is longer. For example, in the first part of the rhythms, the ON is as long as the KOUF and the O together. Is that more clear for you?
Really really useful explanation on the timing of didgeridoo music I was racking my brain on trying to mimic that style and you just made it make sense thank you my didgeridoo dude
Super tutoriel.. Merci beaucoup. J'ai essayé de faire le même travail sur un morceau de Ash Dargan "kwa dance of the crow". J'ai du mal à saisir les articulations utiliséses. Si un jour tu fais un tutoriel sur ce morceau ça serait top. Merci encore
Salut Raphaël, J'aime particulièrement le grain de son qu'il a sur ce morceau ! En revanche, pour l'analyser et surtout le jouer c'est de boulot. Car il utilise une attaque particulièrement marquée avec la gorge (de ce que je comprends en l'écoutant tout en te répondant) qui rends la reproduction délicate si on veut le faire sonner précisément comme lui. Mais je me le met dans ma liste de morceaux à analyser, ça pourrait être un chouette défi. J'adore vraiment son son. ^^
I've been trying to figure out the phonetics of Ash Dargan to play in the last 6 months, but I haven't been able to. I really like his style, so it was a surprise when I saw your lesson with good details above. ✌ I like the way you explain where the dynamic should be. But I have a problem to overcome right now: If I do the first part with emphasizing the dynamics, unfortunately I run out of breath fast in circular breathing. I am thinking the cause is, maybe I don't have giant lungs to pump, as usually the aboriginal didgeridoo players having. 🤣 So the question is, how I should compensate to achieve the same dynamics playing? By the way, I am Bela the HU player if you remember. 😉
Hi Bela, of course I remember you ;-) So if you're not getting enough air, there could be 3 reasons: - you're not breathing on each WA (sometimes you think you're breathing in air but in fact you're not). - you're not pursing your lips enough and too much air is coming out (you need to think about the quality of your sound). - you accentuate each to (or touf) too much. Since I'm beginning to know a bit about your style, I'll go for the third solution! Maybe you can say to yourself that you don't have to blow harder on the TOs but just quieter on everything else. If you want, you can try playing this rhythm in your next video, it's a good exercise!
Thanks for your comment! For that video, I was playing with a D didgeridoo from Bob Druett (Australia, Darwin). Bob is very very good crafter but he stopped I guess...
@@junttivision7743 Yes the harmonics are great ont it. But not only that: - the attacks are very precise - the bass are in the perfect balance with the high frequencies, and so the drone is, for me, perfect. - it's a very versatile didgeridoo - one of my best, it's (very very very) hard for me to find some perfects didgeridoos like this!
@@WakademyDidgeridooSchool it sounds great. I just made a 5 minute loop of the demo, so i can really get the rhytm in my memory. Ps. Your album Reneissance is amazing. I listen to it every day on my walks.
@@junttivision7743 Oh thanks for the album! I released an other one, that I found better than Renaissance, you can check it here: songwhip.com/gauthieraube/lenvol Let me know what do you think! And good idea for the loop, very good way to practice.
Thank you very much for your comment! I just released an album "L'envol" on December 2023. Is that one you are speaking about? * The link is here: songwhip.com/gauthieraube/lenvol Also, I'm working with my new band (name is Volte) on tracks, you can listen here some ideas: gauthieraube.com/volte/ (it's in French but you just need to put play ^^)
Thank you this is vary helpful because i struggle with staying on track, last night i was practicing the music aspect of playing and using music beats to keep me in line I think your English is vary good i understood everything just fine.
Thank you for your comment, which I really appreciate! Musicality is the big thing to develop, and not just for the didgeridoo. Good luck and I look forward to hearing from you!
Thx for this video. For me I like to compare musical didge playing with playing on a drumset. To make ist more musical you change from playing regular snare, basedrum, hihat to other parts of the drumset like tomtoms, clash, standtom e.g. to ad something during playing. And so we can do on the didgeridoo too like you showed to us👍 Keep on didgen everyone!
I totally agree with you about the battery comapraison. In fact, I draw a lot of my inspiration from rhythmic drumming methods to better develop rhythm on the didgeridoo. What a world! Thanks for your comment.
