John you are the first person I have watched who is explaining how to make the various sounds on the Didgeridoo in simple "white" man terms as many of us are from North American (Canada) which does not have an analogue equivalent.
This is clearly the part of the 4-count wobble that i need practice on. I can play the rhythm no problem but as soon as I try to breath on the wah, I lose the rhythm. It's interesting because reversed is easy where you do one push and 2 breaths or 2 wats but reverse it and do 2 pushes and 1 wat and it becomes some alien rhythm to my muscle memory even though it's literally the same 3 count beat. The psychology of music
Practise it without the stick as it's often easier to get the new muscle memory. So, do the double tongue push while breathing or circular breathing. It can be tricky trying to do breath at same time as tongue wobble/double push.
Hi John! Very nice lesson👍🏻 can u please tell me which didj is this and which key? And….can u plz make a video about saliva? How do you do when after a while saliva reaches your lips?? I still don’t know what to do. Than you so much in advance💯🤗
It's a key e flat. You can play papa wah on any stick. It's just down to technique. Regarding saliva, I mention this in my video Lip Vibration & Tension (around 25mins into video). If you struggle to get the sound of this technique try practising it without using a didge to just get the technique going. Then try applying it on the didge. If you can pronounce Ka Ka or Ka ah as you're blowing a drone, that's basically it.
Thank you John for your fast reply🙏🏻 the sound of this didj is beautiful. I will watch the video you mentioned, I still struggle with saliva when I play for more than 3 minutes. Thank you for your useful videos🎶🔝
great video! Do you have a video explaining how you use your jaw for the inbreathe? I can do circular breathing with my cheeks but the jaw breathing eludes me. I believe Jonathan cope calls it "chew breathing"
H John, thanks. Will do tutorial re breathing at some stage but quick pointer here. With cheek breathing you squeeze cheeks in as you know, with jaw breathing you simply move jaw upwards whilst taking breath in. So, in this process your jaw has to drop first before you move it upwards. So it drops around after kaka and just before the wah sound. Then your jaw is constantly moving up and down in relation to the rhythm. Hence that's why Jonathon calls it chewing because its the movement is like that. Also keep in mind that the tongue can be used as well by pushing it up on wah sound and dropping back down for next time round. Best to experiment and like everything it will take some practise. Anyway, watch out for breathing video, not sure when yet though.
My circular breathing video explains breathing with cheeks or jaw. You can also use tongue and both. It's just a case of instead of squeezing in cheeks you have to move jaw upwards which then pushes air out through lips. The trick is to drop jaw a little first so you can push it up. Practise it off stick to see what you're doing as well. I might put extra info on description on that video re jaw. Il go have a re look at what I explained there ... here's a link to that video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vecjjta6UO4.htmlfeature=shared
Hi Mike, no I don't breathe on every wah. For certain players they may need to breathe more often, for others there's no need. Over the years I've based my breathing on a 'balance' of air which has become natural. Every person is different and although we learn for example breathing techniques off others after that it's best to adapt it to your own playing, if that makes sense. I will be doing a video, one after next I think, on circular breathing/ breathing. Hope that's helpful.
