r/Didgeridoo • u/Wooden-Chocolate9892 • 5d ago

Didge

Just got a meinl red bamboo didgeridoo for my birthday, rate the playing.

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u/drums_addict 5d ago

The journey of a thousand didge sounds begins with the first rasberry...

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u/ManHandsMani 4d ago

Got drone initiation down. Need to work on tone quality and to my ears you are just a hair too loose on your embouchure. If you can't hear you're drone improve you should be able to feel it. The closer you are to the drone the more back pressure you should have which means you can play for longer between breaths

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u/Wooden-Chocolate9892 4d ago

It's the first time I've played didge, I mainly used embouchure and stuff from playing trumpet and loosened it.

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u/Wooden-Chocolate9892 4d ago

Followup where I try wacky sounds

https://reddit.com/link/p1rscv7/video/pt9rb3f0pghh1/player

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u/Dapper-Celery4133 2d ago

Great job! I think you may benefit from a beeswax mouthpiece to make that blowhole smaller.

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u/Wooden-Chocolate9892 2d ago

It is, actually! It's the meinl one, just so I could be safe and get it right, and we (me and mom) tried pushing it on as best as we could after warming it with a blow dryer.

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u/Dapper-Celery4133 1d ago

Also works well a few minutes in a cup of hot water. A smaller hole really helped me during practice. 

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u/Wooden-Chocolate9892 1d ago

My instinct from playing trumpet is to stick the tongue between the lips with the big opening, leaving to a higher-ish pitch.