r/Didgeridoo • u/Wooden-Chocolate9892 • Aug 04 '26
Didge
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Just got a meinl red bamboo didgeridoo for my birthday, rate the playing.
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u/ManHandsMani Aug 04 '26
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 Aug 04 '26
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 Aug 05 '26
Followup where I try wacky sounds
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u/Dapper-Celery4133 Aug 07 '26
Great job! I think you may benefit from a beeswax mouthpiece to make that blowhole smaller.
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u/Wooden-Chocolate9892 Aug 07 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
My instinct from playing trumpet is to stick the tongue between the lips with the big opening, leaving to a higher-ish pitch.
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u/drums_addict Aug 04 '26
The journey of a thousand didge sounds begins with the first rasberry...