You are so right...so many talented folks (no matter where their talent lies) are not very good teachers...on down to being totally hopeless at teaching. This guy is a genius! (just love the kangaroo imitations). It amazes me that (A) anyone was incredibly creative enough to devise this instrument in the first place, & (B) figured out how to play it without his companions laughing him out of the group. Good on ya, Indigenous Australians! I could never in a million years master the circular breathing. btw, an Aussie Celtic Tribal band that makes good use of a didgeridoo (& bagpipes! & guitar, drums, & piano) is Brother....they're majorly awesome, too.
He can explain alright, but compared to the other two or three videos I've seen of other people, he's not a good teacher. He's demonstrating a bunch of techniques saying things like this "try this with your tongue." My reaction to this is HOW???? Other videos have people teaching step by step.
This is profound, authentic Australian culture at its best. Real Australian roots. This makes me proud to call myself an Aussie. Thank you David for taking the time to share this ancient spiritual art with the world.
The best part was him explaining the meanings behind the music. Didgeridoos are one of the most underrated instruments they are incredible. I learned to play years ago and I never got near as good! Love from the US
Wish I came across this video in the days before internet, my roommate had bought one and never got great at it, He's dead now 😢 He could figure it better than all of us tho, we thought it was because he was a mulatto 😅
I remember in grade 3 we were doing a school performance about The Dreamtime and The Rainbow Serpent some Aboriginal elders from the local tribe came by my school to see if anyone of us could play the Didgeridoo well enough to be in the performance. I was the only one of my class who could actually produce a decent enough sound for them to be happy enough to allow us to use the instrument, it was a pretty big honor to be able to play it on stage in ront of hundreds of people even as a kid with no practice haha.
That is simply fascinating. I've always wondered how players actually did this. And I love that the sounds of the environment are actually the music! So it's like the didgeridoo is the voice of Australia itself.
I'm a Yank, and have long been intrigued by the sound of the indigenous Australian didgeridoo. It sounds like nothing else in this world, and the fact it is one of the oldest wind instruments in the world is something to be acknowledged. I have met some Aussie friends here in the United States, and when talking about the didgeridoo, they warned me that it was hard to play. Watching this video done by a Native Australian himself, I now see that they weren't kidding!
The ancient Carnyx of the Celts had a similar sound and tone but of course not exactly the same. The playing styles are very different but techniques with the mouth are similar too. Both are instruments that evolved inspired by animal sounds and nature.
The sound of this instrument has a quality that transcends what can be said in words. It is a primordial sound, one which feels like mother nature is talking to us in a language that only those with open hearts can hear. Thanks for uploading this video.
When I was a child travelling through the outback and some of the deserts of Oz, with my airforce dad and my mum when posted from base to base and back again I experienced a lot of nature in the different regions. Everything out there, when the vehicle engine and track or road noise stopped was just stunning silence. Except for the occasional crow or parrot or finch call. Or the scrambling of a lizard or even the tiniest grains of coarse sand knocked into a tiny landslide by an ant. The landscape colours that seemed muted and pastel, apart from the bright fire red dust, suddenly started popping with bright splashes and veins of the many colours of the spectrum right through to violet. I was between 2 and 8 and 10 and 18 when experiencing this special silence and even at a very young age I remember the feeling of such a pulsating rhythm like the land was breathing with some kind of sound that you could hear but not hear. Like a pulsating heat mirage that you can see but not see. The physical heat seemed to pulsate in time with it all giving the impression that the mystical silent sound was within and without passing through your body. Maybe the strong heat pulses against the hairs in the inner ear making almost inaudible sound. That sound was like a faint deep long held pulsing note of a didgeridoo along with a faint high whine of the same instrument. I had never heard a didgeridoo until 14 yrs old and connected the two sounds. I have wondered if the first peoples took on this natural mysterious sound of those regions into their first music or if the wood was just imbued with the tonings of the regional nature that grew it.
David Hudson, mate you're a national treasure. I fear that so much of your people's culture is being lost and we all miss out once it has gone. You demonstrate how to play the didgeridoo so well. It must be the most difficult musical instrument to play well in the world. And you are great.
Getting this in before someone does a doctoral thesis on this subject; The ancient link between the Australian Didgeridoo and Mongolian, Alti throat singing. Both are instruments designed to replicate natural sounds utilizing overtones and a baseline producing two simultaneous notes in harmony.
@@SuperSayinSolidSnek Aus indigenous culture survived for 40-60000 years. 200 years of European 'influence' has decimated it. That constitutes 'conscious and deliberate destruction', not 'lost to time'.
@@tsparks4133 There wouldn't be a link there, other than the human anatomy leading us down certain paths when it comes to producing sound. The folks who took to the seas to Australia did so tens of thousands of years separately to the migrations to the East.
Played tuba in the 5th grade. The aborigines have really influenced me, the culture itself is really interesting. Now I am 15 years old and exploring the outdoors and created my own didgeridoo. Painted a tribal shark on it thank you David for showing the world how to play this wonderful instrument
I had the pleasure of meeting David in 1986, my family travelled up to the Tablelands hoping to see the Tjapukai dance theatre. In a little ttoe basement. Unfortunately there very first performance wasn't until the next day , but they happily welcomed us in to watch the last dress rehearsal 😁 Afterwards David took the time to give me a lesson and handed me the Didgeeredoo 😁😁😁 Two years later I caught up with him again in Brisbane whilst he was performing at EXPO 88,. Thankyou David Hudson oh your a true talent and gentleman to boot Love your work mate.
Such a great instrument. When I was growing up in the Bronx, in New York, mid to late '70s, hip hop was just starting to get attention and notoriety. There was a group of rappers who used this instrument in their performances. Specifically, they had a guy off to side playing this instrument while a live drummer provided a funky, James Brown type of drum beat. You have no idea how amazing this instruments sounds when it accompanies an a amazing drummer! This group never failed to entertain, but I am not sure why this group, or their original use for this instrument, never quite took off.
I like his intuitive instructions, it's quite rare to see a teacher speak beyond just intellect. And the connection between animals and the music makes sense now. Today was my first time playing it, at the same time with a guitar and drum. It was absolute magic.
Wow I've watched like a dozen "how to" videos for all of these techniques broken down. This guy does a great job of describing and showing them all at once in a nice condensed 10 minutes.
Balgore8 As much as I love the idea of learning how to play through TH-cam. It rarely works out for the more exotic instruments like the didgeridoo. That’s why It’d be better to just save the time and spend money on a dvd or a online course...
We purchased a dandy digeridoo when we were in Australia -- but no one can play it. David gives terrific lessons. That circular breathing..... wow. It sits in our music room as a decorative piece. Maybe one day our son, a brass musician, will learn to play this great instrument.
the thing i love about this instrument is the culture behind it, the fact that native animal calls are included in the music connects humans and the world together more and i think that is beautiful.
Just got back from Australia, plucked down $800 Aussie bucks on a real player, the wonderful lady sold it to me from her personal collection, she played it, taught me a little and I was hooked. It sounds like a dream even when I make my basic sounds. When you buy one, you will play it all the time and if you are willing to make the investment you can get one that will sound better and better as you get good. It's very motivational.
Not only does the didgeridoo create an awesome "electric" sound naturally, but it gives an incredible spine chill when you put the end of it on someone's back. I had a didgeridoo player do that to me at a Renaissance Festival, and I felt like I was in heaven!!
I live in Ireland and so many of the sounds use in our traditional music, invariably are base on the sounds of native wild life, it's amazing to see this idea was also part of Native Australian tradition, effective emulating nature through the use of a instrument.
I wonder if all music originates from mimicking the sounds of nature, from our ancestors hearing the roar of beast's to gentile waterfalls, there must have been some inspiration. Like mimicking wildlife when hunting or singing stories about animals during ceremonies.
@@Jay-er2ik idk about origins but using everyday sounds for music inspiration is cool and common. Like with blues using steam train rhythms, or various genres using the rhythm of horse gallops.
I’m so glad I found this video. I’m a 59yo white fella who woke up this morning to the sounds of 200 birds White Cockatoos, Pink & Grey Galahs & Black Crows flying & landing. Now, enjoying my morning tea I felt the need to play some Digeridoo for these birds now perched in the golden gumtrees on my property. It was amazing to see & hear how almost all the birds become quite and listened to this most spiritual sound coming from my phone. Thanks 🙏🏻 👍🏻 maybe I’ll learn from this bloke here.
I saw David perform at the Kuranda Amphitheatre when he was the lead-in performer to Tommy Emmanuel. David had either 4 or 5 (i'm getting old) didgeridoos on stands and he went from one to the other playing them all... his rendition of a train chugging along the track was amazing. He is brilliant. I actually still have his CD DIgeatralia in my collection. Just like Tommy, he's an entertainer, not just a performer.
The world's first synthesiser is the human voice and mouth. This is an amplifier. The aboriginals were masters of imitating nature like many other tribes and nomads.
@@mackash Big talk for some closet-racist white kid whose big passion is making uninspired DJ "mixes" with 100 views each (good on you for apparently giving that up though it was clearly a waste of time). Fucking obvious that completely isolated regions don't experience the same exponential growth that, say, most of Europe did throughout history. Or how Egyptians in the same continent as West-Africans were 'centuries' ahead. Or any other case you could point to. Pretending there was some sort of competition between remote isolate tribes and Europeans throughout greater history is ridiculous and you know it. This was just an opportunity for you to spout nonsense at any culture that isn't white. The fact that you go straight into literal "us vs them"-speak just tells the tale LOL you're fucking fried mate. How the fuck did you bring cannibalism into a conversation about synthesizers - do you know how insane that is? Hahaha
@@mackash Despite the fact it is not as good as modern technology, we must remember and recognise the ways of the Aboriginal people, the first sentence you wrote is an imitation of the kind of superiority that got a lot of indigenous peoples killed and enslaved. We thought because we were more advanced we had the right to take their land and their culture from them. As for the ridiculousness of the dreamland theory, have you heard of the bible, last time I checked unscientific and disproven "miracles" are worshipped by millions. A man living in a whale's mouth? Romanticising that sounds "a bit silly" to me. Cool fiction book though. You have done nothing in life compared to some Indigenous people, so don't condescend to their elders.
@@mackash if you want to see the worst of humanity, look to the Dutch in Africa. Cannibalism pales in comparison. Besides the point, this was a conversation about synthesisers, fuck off you weirdo.
@@mackash LOL a prominent DJ in the 90s but now a dropkick fucking window-fixer on 55k a year, fuck off you racist old man hahahaha absolutely pathetic
the most detailed tutorial for the Didgeridoo i have seen, tried learning in school with teachers and friends, and never could get it right, was funny as all hell haha, but they never explained it to us this well.
Got so involved in my memories, I forgot to say that I bought a beautiful Didgeridoo while we were in Sydney. Now, thanks to David, Im learning to play it. Thanks, David.
Been playing for around ten years now on and off but always looking for tips and tricks, if you're wanting to learn, from a reasonably experienced player, listen to this guy! I always describe the circular breathing method as using your cheeks like bag pipes, practice with a straw and a glass of water, try keep the bubbles going, that's my little tip!
David Hudson YOU are THE Didgeridoo Master . I so wish I could one day see you play in live. I ADORE YOUR MUSIC and your work , what you do for the DECOLONIZATION of your people. Love to you All. 🌿✊🏾🌿🧡🤎🧡
This was amazing, he teaches in a way that you completely understand how to play the didgeridoo. Now whether or not you'll actually master this amazing technique is another story, but you'll definitely know how.
Completely amazing. I now feel I have an understanding for a new type of music and instrument. The ties-in to animals is SO moving, and SO beautiful in its sounds. WHAT music!!
Since I first heard this sound watching 'In the Bush with Malcolm Douglas' as a kid, the didgeridoo always fascinated me. And this little tutorial was the most revealing piece of media about that instrument that I've seen to this day. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, David for this amazing ancient cultural exchange. I was told I was also Aboriginal in one life or so. When I went to TH-cam to first hear it, I started to cry, and sat still for a long time. Your skill is amazing.
Amazing. Idiots just can't imagine how difficult this is. You are the best. I once made a Didgeridoo out of a dead century plant in Arizona. It had a good sound but I was never able to master that breathing technique.
@@sasquatchdonut2674 This was a very Old, large dead plant. It was a lot of work emptying it out. It ended up being about 5 Feet in Length and 2 1/2 to 4 inches in diameter. It a constant 1/8 thick. I varnished it and it had a pretty large Beeswax mouth piece. Wish I had a Pic for you. I gave it away.
I live in Texas, and I have loved the sound of the didgeridoo ever since I heard it in world music. This is one of the most fascinating videos I’ve ever heard. It’s just wonderful. Thank you.
Omg😮they way he explains, I have been watching so many videos to play didgeridoo, he plays awesome,it's 2023 n this incredible video made 13 yrs back, I get more confidence now💪🏼 thankyou so much 🙏🏻🌸
yea it's like the sound in your brain waaaaay back there. hard to describe, but yea it's sometimes just there when u take lots of drugs idk like primal instinct, ancient ways
Samuel Wright I alone am a aboriginal. And I never fit in to the tribe and when i watched this video I could and now I am the most popular in the tribe 👴🏿🇦🇺
brought my 1st didgeridoo today always loved the sound soo primo turns out I'm a bad asthma sufferer have sleep apnea and snore found out today playing the didgeridoo can help with these things :) what an awesome instrument
Wow! I trained voices for 40 years. I really never considered that someone could create such a magnificent array of sounds with the voice alone!! Truly stunning!! A revelation!!
David is a National Treasure, I'm a Bass Player wanna be Didgeridoo Player(& Happy to be on me L plates!) He's Genius with that display of prowess on such a unique Instrument, truly Inspiring. Awesome Presentation David.
An old college roommate of mine had a didgeridoo, and he would bust it out when we had parties. We had a party one night and I had to work early the next morning at like 6am. He busted out the didgeridoo around 3 or 4am and it woke me up. I climbed out of bed and wheeled over to his room still half asleep- there was about 5 or 6 people in there and everybody was pretty hammered. I knocked on his door, popped my head in, and said "Hey man, can we didgeri-don't on the didgeridoo"? Best mic drop ever. We laughed like hell about it the next day.
Excellent demonstration. Taking the digdge back and forth from your mouth makes it so clear now. You do this in a grand sensible way, no bs just down to earth quick easy common sense, but you don't miss the important nuances either. Great demonstrator. Also I never knew the significance of the different punctuating sounds like the twangs and calls. Thanks to you i do now, and you've explained their use and relevance, again very well. Not many people put in such effort to their instructional videos as this, but you do it so quickly and understandably. God bless you :)
Greetings to everyone,, Just a few days left to the end of 2019, best wishes to you for 2020, blessing upon you all, may the new year bring happiness, health and prosperity to all, with best regards and respect from a faraway land,, the beautiful New Zealand.
@@angrysumoxxx with all due respect,,,Tampering with the core and fundamental of nature,, the GENES,, is an act that brings about catastrophic, disaster and misery to human race and other creatures in the world matey.It is like a man jumps in the a raging flame and get burned all over and then says,,the blessing didn't work!!! Hope you get it mate!!!! and have a great day.
@Sage LaRue with all due respect,,,Tampering with the core and fundamental of nature,, the GENES,, is an act that brings about catastrophic, disaster and misery to human race and other creatures in the world matey.It is like a man jumps in the a raging flame and get burned all over and then says,,the blessing didn't work!!! Hope you get it mate!!!! and have a great day.
@@Cissablack708 with all due respect,,,Tampering with the core and fundamental of nature,, the GENES,, is an act that brings about catastrophic, disaster and misery to human race and other creatures in the world matey.It is like a man jumps in the a raging flame and get burned all over and then says,,the blessing didn't work!!! Hope you get it mate!!!! with best regards .
Wow! I came across this video while helping my daughter do research for a project on Australian Aboriginal culture. I had no idea that the sounds from Aboriginal music were mostly coming from just this one instrument. I am now a huge fan of the didgeridoo!
This video and the straw technique for continuous breathing tremendously helped me on the journey to meditate in the dream time via didgeridoo. Keep the rhythm pumping! Thanks
I recently became overwhelmed by the yearning to play this instrument. Maybe because it will open my throat chakra which will enhance my crown chakra. The vibration is amazing. So with that I thank you for showing me how to practice. I am going the buy one.
I've been working at this thing for over 20 years, and keep coming back to this video, which has helped me more than anything. And still, I can't seem to get the right sound out of the center of my mouth, I always have to go a bit to the left side. And I think I just figured out why! I played the Highland bagpipes for years, starting as a teen, when I needed to strengthen my mouth to keep the pressure on the blowpipe. It took years to strengthen my mouth to get it right. Well, that blowpipe goes out towards the left to the bag, and now that is the same angle I need to use on the didge. Muscle memory is very, very strong.
This video is rare and I was lucky to get permission to upload it in 2010. David was very generous and it was initially to help my music students with their homework. Now it means so much more!
Hey I just watched your video thanks heaps you explained it really simple. So I'm going to to give it a go thanks heaps mate. I bought a didgeridoo a few years ago that was played in the indigenous all stars opening ceremony and I need to give up smoking as I'm 58 and tried all the things that suppose to help you give up .so this didgeridoo might just do it for me. Hey mate thanks for a great video best wishes to you and thanks again. Cheers from len
One of my favorite scenes from Mad Dog Morgan is when David Gulpilil's character Billy is dancing on a rock to didgeridoo music and Dennis Hopper (Morgan) says "I'll never believe you're half white." Lol. Great movie. ♥ didgeridoo.
I have loved the sound of the didgeridoo for as long as I can remember and hearing about how the instrument is used to imitate natural native fauna is fascinating. Great teaching as well. This is what I love about the internet. And ancient cultures. Wonderful
America has Dr Dre…. This is Dr Didge
This guy not only plays well, he does something that is exceedingly rare, he explains things well. Very good teacher.
You are so right...so many talented folks (no matter where their talent lies) are not very good teachers...on down to being totally hopeless at teaching. This guy is a genius! (just love the kangaroo imitations). It amazes me that (A) anyone was incredibly creative enough to devise this instrument in the first place, & (B) figured out how to play it without his companions laughing him out of the group. Good on ya, Indigenous Australians!
I could never in a million years master the circular breathing.
btw, an Aussie Celtic Tribal band that makes good use of a didgeridoo (& bagpipes! & guitar, drums, & piano) is Brother....they're majorly awesome, too.
Thanks Kelly.
Welcome! :-)
Your comment pointed out an often-overlooked bit of reality.
Kane Alson I agree, I just picked up a few tips to make noises on the Didgeridoo that I have
He can explain alright, but compared to the other two or three videos I've seen of other people, he's not a good teacher. He's demonstrating a bunch of techniques saying things like this "try this with your tongue." My reaction to this is HOW???? Other videos have people teaching step by step.
This is profound, authentic Australian culture at its best. Real Australian roots. This makes me proud to call myself an Aussie. Thank you David for taking the time to share this ancient spiritual art with the world.
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Until your gvmnt locks you up for not partaking in experimental gene therapy.
That's cool, so your family is aboriginal?
As a fellow Aussie, I couldn’t agree more. What an absolutely fantastic ambassador for our country and our First Nations people.
I'm from Mexico, and to me this is the most interesting music and sounds for the soul, thank you Austrlia for sharing your beautiful culture !!!
Australia*
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Or as tRump would spell it, Austria...😋🤭😅
The Mayans supposedly had their own kind of didgeridoo too
yo conocí el didgeridoo por encarta jaja
0:56 gorgeous
The best part was him explaining the meanings behind the music. Didgeridoos are one of the most underrated instruments they are incredible. I learned to play years ago and I never got near as good! Love from the US
Wish I came across this video in the days before internet, my roommate had bought one and never got great at it,
He's dead now 😢
He could figure it better than all of us tho, we thought it was because he was a mulatto 😅
This guy is a world treasure.
I remember in grade 3 we were doing a school performance about The Dreamtime and The Rainbow Serpent some Aboriginal elders from the local tribe came by my school to see if anyone of us could play the Didgeridoo well enough to be in the performance. I was the only one of my class who could actually produce a decent enough sound for them to be happy enough to allow us to use the instrument, it was a pretty big honor to be able to play it on stage in ront of hundreds of people even as a kid with no practice haha.
Thats awesome and like you said, quite the honour! Thabks for sharing your story.
That is simply fascinating. I've always wondered how players actually did this. And I love that the sounds of the environment are actually the music! So it's like the didgeridoo is the voice of Australia itself.
ELWest1000 Yep, it basically is!
@@andyshistorylessons8278 its not. Not in a basic or complicated way.
Entheogenic instrument
Yeah mate
@@joshuajackson4742 how?
It's two in the morning and watching a man play a didgeridoo.
Nathan Stein haha hell yeah
same
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1:23am,
I'm a Yank, and have long been intrigued by the sound of the indigenous Australian didgeridoo. It sounds like nothing else in this world, and the fact it is one of the oldest wind instruments in the world is something to be acknowledged.
I have met some Aussie friends here in the United States, and when talking about the didgeridoo, they warned me that it was hard to play. Watching this video done by a Native Australian himself, I now see that they weren't kidding!
The ancient Carnyx of the Celts had a similar sound and tone but of course not exactly the same. The playing styles are very different but techniques with the mouth are similar too. Both are instruments that evolved inspired by animal sounds and nature.
Interesting fact, those people's DNA has a ver different strand from the rest of the world, like alien blood
The sound of this instrument has a quality that transcends what can be said in words. It is a primordial sound, one which feels like mother nature is talking to us in a language that only those with open hearts can hear. Thanks for uploading this video.
When I was a child travelling through the outback and some of the deserts of Oz, with my airforce dad and my mum when posted from base to base and back again I experienced a lot of nature in the different regions.
Everything out there, when the vehicle engine and track or road noise stopped was just stunning silence. Except for the occasional crow or parrot or finch call. Or the scrambling of a lizard or even the tiniest grains of coarse sand knocked into a tiny landslide by an ant. The landscape colours that seemed muted and pastel, apart from the bright fire red dust, suddenly started popping with bright splashes and veins of the many colours of the spectrum right through to violet.
I was between 2 and 8 and 10 and 18 when experiencing this special silence and even at a very young age I remember the feeling of such a pulsating rhythm like the land was breathing with some kind of sound that you could hear but not hear. Like a pulsating heat mirage that you can see but not see. The physical heat seemed to pulsate in time with it all giving the impression that the mystical silent sound was within and without passing through your body. Maybe the strong heat pulses against the hairs in the inner ear making almost inaudible sound. That sound was like a faint deep long held pulsing note of a didgeridoo along with a faint high whine of the same instrument.
I had never heard a didgeridoo until 14 yrs old and connected the two sounds.
I have wondered if the first peoples took on this natural mysterious sound of those regions into their first music or if the wood was just imbued with the tonings of the regional nature that grew it.
David Hudson, mate you're a national treasure. I fear that so much of your people's culture is being lost and we all miss out once it has gone. You demonstrate how to play the didgeridoo so well. It must be the most difficult musical instrument to play well in the world. And you are great.
Getting this in before someone does a doctoral thesis on this subject; The ancient link between the Australian Didgeridoo and Mongolian, Alti throat singing.
Both are instruments designed to replicate natural sounds utilizing overtones and a baseline producing two simultaneous notes in harmony.
Most things are lost to time
@@SuperSayinSolidSnek All*
@@SuperSayinSolidSnek
Aus indigenous culture survived for 40-60000 years.
200 years of European 'influence' has decimated it.
That constitutes 'conscious and deliberate destruction', not 'lost to time'.
@@tsparks4133 There wouldn't be a link there, other than the human anatomy leading us down certain paths when it comes to producing sound. The folks who took to the seas to Australia did so tens of thousands of years separately to the migrations to the East.
So glad to see many are inspired by David. Keep those comments coming.
It is great to see people inspired by the Didjeridoo and Australian Music.
he looks like the guy that played in crocodile Dundee...
Bobby Middleton All Australians look the same
goodbar2332 yeah, that's what I look like, also my brothers and uncles look the same.
Played tuba in the 5th grade. The aborigines have really influenced me, the culture itself is really interesting. Now I am 15 years old and exploring the outdoors and created my own didgeridoo. Painted a tribal shark on it thank you David for showing the world how to play this wonderful instrument
Psychotic Antëater have you tried psychedelics?
I had the pleasure of meeting David in 1986, my family travelled up to the Tablelands hoping to see the Tjapukai dance theatre. In a little ttoe basement.
Unfortunately there very first performance wasn't until the next day , but they happily welcomed us in to watch the last dress rehearsal 😁
Afterwards David took the time to give me a lesson and handed me the Didgeeredoo 😁😁😁
Two years later I caught up with him again in Brisbane whilst he was performing at EXPO 88,.
Thankyou David Hudson oh your a true talent and gentleman to boot
Love your work mate.
Best Didgeridoo teaching i ever hear.
Such a great instrument. When I was growing up in the Bronx, in New York, mid to late '70s, hip hop was just starting to get attention and notoriety. There was a group of rappers who used this instrument in their performances. Specifically, they had a guy off to side playing this instrument while a live drummer provided a funky, James Brown type of drum beat. You have no idea how amazing this instruments sounds when it accompanies an a amazing drummer! This group never failed to entertain, but I am not sure why this group, or their original use for this instrument, never quite took off.
Look up Yothu Yindi a band of Yolongu people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
This sounds absolutely epic
I like his intuitive instructions, it's quite rare to see a teacher speak beyond just intellect. And the connection between animals and the music makes sense now. Today was my first time playing it, at the same time with a guitar and drum. It was absolute magic.
Wow I've watched like a dozen "how to" videos for all of these techniques broken down. This guy does a great job of describing and showing them all at once in a nice condensed 10 minutes.
Balgore8 As much as I love the idea of learning how to play through TH-cam. It rarely works out for the more exotic instruments like the didgeridoo. That’s why It’d be better to just save the time and spend money on a dvd or a online course...
That’s because David IS the real deal!!!
We purchased a dandy digeridoo when we were in Australia -- but no one can play it. David gives terrific lessons. That circular breathing..... wow. It sits in our music room as a decorative piece. Maybe one day our son, a brass musician, will learn to play this great instrument.
Hey, did your son ever try playing it?
I absolutely learned how to play didgeridoo using this exact VHS. So cool to see it here all these years later
the thing i love about this instrument is the culture behind it, the fact that native animal calls are included in the music connects humans and the world together more and i think that is beautiful.
"Kookaburra, that's the laughing jack ass!" dead.
Same!
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You are the only person to actually teach in normal speaking and demonstrations that normal people understand.
One of the most basic instruments ever made, one of the hardest to master! This is cool, I want one now
Look up: didgeridoobreath You can find the cheapest didgeridoo at 100 Aussie dollars
Just got back from Australia, plucked down $800 Aussie bucks on a real player, the wonderful lady sold it to me from her personal collection, she played it, taught me a little and I was hooked. It sounds like a dream even when I make my basic sounds. When you buy one, you will play it all the time and if you are willing to make the investment you can get one that will sound better and better as you get good. It's very motivational.
@@Spisters you really shouldnt ever play someone elses didgeridoo the amount of spit and bacteria thats seeped and grown in the wood is horrendous.
Friend of mine played a coil of galvanized wiring conduit at ceremonial event, forgot his horn...
Practice with a poster holder from the post shop !!!
I love David Hudson's didgeridoo music. He's incredible.
You are an amazing man. A true Australian and your heritage and culture. Wish there were more like you
Not only does the didgeridoo create an awesome "electric" sound naturally, but it gives an incredible spine chill when you put the end of it on someone's back. I had a didgeridoo player do that to me at a Renaissance Festival, and I felt like I was in heaven!!
That “spine chill” sounds like something else 😂
Hey, hi David! I still have your didgeridoo that you made for me in 1988. Good to see and hear you again!
Wowwwww! That's so cool!
I live in Ireland and so many of the sounds use in our traditional music, invariably are base on the sounds
of native wild life, it's amazing to see this idea was also part of Native Australian tradition, effective emulating nature through the use of a instrument.
D.ROCHE Nature is our mother
I'd love some example recordings
I wonder if all music originates from mimicking the sounds of nature, from our ancestors hearing the roar of beast's to gentile waterfalls, there must have been some inspiration. Like mimicking wildlife when hunting or singing stories about animals during ceremonies.
@@Jay-er2ik If for no other reason, mimicking the animals can attract prey.
This would have been invaluable.
@@Jay-er2ik idk about origins but using everyday sounds for music inspiration is cool and common. Like with blues using steam train rhythms, or various genres using the rhythm of horse gallops.
I’m so glad I found this video. I’m a 59yo white fella who woke up this morning to the sounds of 200 birds White Cockatoos, Pink & Grey Galahs & Black Crows flying & landing. Now, enjoying my morning tea I felt the need to play some Digeridoo for these birds now perched in the golden gumtrees on my property. It was amazing to see & hear how almost all the birds become quite and listened to this most spiritual sound coming from my phone. Thanks 🙏🏻 👍🏻 maybe I’ll learn from this bloke here.
This dude is literately changing the vibration of his world... hell yeah x
That is a real art of playing Didgeridoo, it must takes years to be able to play it like that, thumbs up and very well done.
What was it's original purpose, though
@@hidof9598 ceremonies and chants around the fire pit
@@hidof9598 Story telling around the camp fire.
@Hido F something retards like you can't even comprehend
@@hidof9598 It's always been an instrument
I saw David perform at the Kuranda Amphitheatre when he was the lead-in performer to Tommy Emmanuel. David had either 4 or 5 (i'm getting old) didgeridoos on stands and he went from one to the other playing them all... his rendition of a train chugging along the track was amazing. He is brilliant. I actually still have his CD DIgeatralia in my collection. Just like Tommy, he's an entertainer, not just a performer.
This is awesome, I am a saxophonist and I really learned from watching this video. I learned the circular breathing from him
Advanced trumpet, trombone, euphonium and tuba players have much to learn from this guy.
Fnug
Lol they really don’t. You’re comparing making fart noises into a hollow log with playing a brass/reed instrument
@@jaymcbakerk dude mastered circular breathing and you're gonna say this?
@@TheGuyCalledX don't ask this kind of guy what he thinks about indigenous people and their art
You’re a great teacher…and amazing sound work…thank you for your openness..🙏
I can't believe he did all that in less than 10 minutes. WoW!
The world's first synthesizer. Absolute genius.
The world's first synthesiser is the human voice and mouth. This is an amplifier. The aboriginals were masters of imitating nature like many other tribes and nomads.
@@mackash Big talk for some closet-racist white kid whose big passion is making uninspired DJ "mixes" with 100 views each (good on you for apparently giving that up though it was clearly a waste of time).
Fucking obvious that completely isolated regions don't experience the same exponential growth that, say, most of Europe did throughout history. Or how Egyptians in the same continent as West-Africans were 'centuries' ahead. Or any other case you could point to. Pretending there was some sort of competition between remote isolate tribes and Europeans throughout greater history is ridiculous and you know it. This was just an opportunity for you to spout nonsense at any culture that isn't white. The fact that you go straight into literal "us vs them"-speak just tells the tale LOL you're fucking fried mate.
How the fuck did you bring cannibalism into a conversation about synthesizers - do you know how insane that is? Hahaha
@@mackash Despite the fact it is not as good as modern technology, we must remember and recognise the ways of the Aboriginal people, the first sentence you wrote is an imitation of the kind of superiority that got a lot of indigenous peoples killed and enslaved.
We thought because we were more advanced we had the right to take their land and their culture from them.
As for the ridiculousness of the dreamland theory, have you heard of the bible, last time I checked unscientific and disproven "miracles" are worshipped by millions.
A man living in a whale's mouth? Romanticising that sounds "a bit silly" to me.
Cool fiction book though.
You have done nothing in life compared to some Indigenous people, so don't condescend to their elders.
@@mackash if you want to see the worst of humanity, look to the Dutch in Africa. Cannibalism pales in comparison. Besides the point, this was a conversation about synthesisers, fuck off you weirdo.
@@mackash LOL a prominent DJ in the 90s but now a dropkick fucking window-fixer on 55k a year, fuck off you racist old man hahahaha absolutely pathetic
This is magical you explain the incomprehensible so well .The didge sounds wonderful when you play
What a talented , handsome man ! And he explains things every step of the way too . ❤
Brilliant educator, this bloke is an unrecognised talent for Australia and the beauty of the aboriginal cultural music.
the most detailed tutorial for the Didgeridoo i have seen, tried learning in school with teachers and friends, and never could get it right, was funny as all hell haha, but they never explained it to us this well.
Got so involved in my memories, I forgot to say that I bought a beautiful Didgeridoo while we were in Sydney. Now, thanks to David, Im learning to play it. Thanks, David.
Been playing for around ten years now on and off but always looking for tips and tricks, if you're wanting to learn, from a reasonably experienced player, listen to this guy!
I always describe the circular breathing method as using your cheeks like bag pipes, practice with a straw and a glass of water, try keep the bubbles going, that's my little tip!
David Hudson YOU are THE Didgeridoo Master .
I so wish I could one day see you play in live. I ADORE YOUR MUSIC and your work , what you do for the DECOLONIZATION of your people. Love to you All. 🌿✊🏾🌿🧡🤎🧡
This was amazing, he teaches in a way that you completely understand how to play the didgeridoo. Now whether or not you'll actually master this amazing technique is another story, but you'll definitely know how.
Completely amazing. I now feel I have an understanding for a new type of music and instrument. The ties-in to animals is SO moving, and SO beautiful in its sounds. WHAT music!!
What a wonderful comment!
Since I first heard this sound watching 'In the Bush with Malcolm Douglas' as a kid, the didgeridoo always fascinated me. And this little tutorial was the most revealing piece of media about that instrument that I've seen to this day.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, David for this amazing ancient cultural exchange. I was told I was also Aboriginal in one life or so. When I went to TH-cam to first hear it, I started to cry, and sat still for a long time. Your skill is amazing.
I just bought a didgeridoo & love my new instrument & the low vibrations that resonate through my body. Thanks for sharing your technique! 😍
6:03 breathing is so impressive haha. best teacher i've found so far.
That is one of the best teachings I've seen on TH-cam! Wow! what a passion and full heart into it! Thanks David! You Rock!
Amazing. Idiots just can't imagine how difficult this is. You are the best. I once made a Didgeridoo out of a dead century plant in Arizona. It had a good sound but I was never able to master that breathing technique.
@Ordinary Pete In the Verde Valley, Sedona.
Is it from a flower stalk? I would’ve thought it would be too thin and not hard enough
@@sasquatchdonut2674 This was a very Old, large dead plant. It was a lot of work emptying it out. It ended up being about 5 Feet in Length and 2 1/2 to 4 inches in diameter. It a constant 1/8 thick. I varnished it and it had a pretty large Beeswax mouth piece. Wish I had a Pic for you. I gave it away.
This is FANTASTIC!! Never thought it would be explained to me and he does that very well. WOW!
I live in Texas, and I have loved the sound of the didgeridoo ever since I heard it in world music. This is one of the most fascinating videos I’ve ever heard. It’s just wonderful. Thank you.
Omg😮they way he explains, I have been watching so many videos to play didgeridoo, he plays awesome,it's 2023 n this incredible video made 13 yrs back, I get more confidence now💪🏼 thankyou so much 🙏🏻🌸
Digeridoo has that ancient sound, when i hear it, it's like something unlocks whit in me :D Wonderful!
Kriss yeah same I bought one I love the sound so much
Me too
Primal AF
yea it's like the sound in your brain waaaaay back there. hard to describe, but yea it's sometimes just there when u take lots of drugs
idk like primal instinct, ancient ways
you’re imagining things
2:55 I lost the bleeps, the sweeps and the creeps
Mel Brooks ladies and gentlemen
Jay91 son of a bitch he sounds just like that
That's not all he's lost. 🤨
There's only one man who would DARE give me the raspberry... Lone! Star! (THUD)
Mate you are the best didgeridoo player I’ve learnt off and I’m living and working out at Uluru
10 Years later and this guy is still solving my problems lol. Cheers David Hudson!
I have listened to the DD for years now I know how it’s played brilliant teacher
Glad you liked it.
Thank David for allowing me to upload it!
Samuel Wright how did you get 1.7 million views. Your my music teacher
Samuel Wright I alone am a aboriginal. And I never fit in to the tribe and when i watched this video I could and now I am the most popular in the tribe 👴🏿🇦🇺
brought my 1st didgeridoo today always loved the sound soo primo turns out I'm a bad asthma sufferer have sleep apnea and snore found out today playing the didgeridoo can help with these things :) what an awesome instrument
Have you kept up with it? And has it helped?
And.....
One of the best Teachers
This is just excellent! Appreciation,respect and brotherly affection from the U.S.A.
Wow! I trained voices for 40 years. I really never considered that someone could create such a magnificent array of sounds with the voice alone!! Truly stunning!! A revelation!!
David is a National Treasure, I'm a Bass Player wanna be Didgeridoo Player(& Happy to be on me L plates!)
He's Genius with that display of prowess on such a unique Instrument, truly Inspiring. Awesome Presentation David.
Lol "that's a big fella, you imagine a lil joey tryna keep up with him" hahaha
3:25 Holy shit, the guy is getting harmonic overtones. He's incredibly good.
An old college roommate of mine had a didgeridoo, and he would bust it out when we had parties. We had a party one night and I had to work early the next morning at like 6am. He busted out the didgeridoo around 3 or 4am and it woke me up. I climbed out of bed and wheeled over to his room still half asleep- there was about 5 or 6 people in there and everybody was pretty hammered. I knocked on his door, popped my head in, and said "Hey man, can we didgeri-don't on the didgeridoo"? Best mic drop ever. We laughed like hell about it the next day.
Excellent demonstration. Taking the digdge back and forth from your mouth makes it so clear now. You do this in a grand sensible way, no bs just down to earth quick easy common sense, but you don't miss the important nuances either. Great demonstrator.
Also I never knew the significance of the different punctuating sounds like the twangs and calls. Thanks to you i do now, and you've explained their use and relevance, again very well.
Not many people put in such effort to their instructional videos as this, but you do it so quickly and understandably.
God bless you :)
Greetings to everyone,,
Just a few days left to the end of 2019, best wishes to you for 2020, blessing upon you all, may the new year bring happiness, health and prosperity to all, with best regards and respect from a faraway land,, the beautiful New Zealand.
Way to jinx 2020. 😉
@@angrysumoxxx with all due respect,,,Tampering with the core and fundamental of nature,, the GENES,, is an act that brings about catastrophic, disaster and misery to human race and other creatures in the world matey.It is like a man jumps in the a raging flame and get burned all over and then says,,the blessing didn't work!!! Hope you get it mate!!!! and have a great day.
@Sage LaRue with all due respect,,,Tampering with the core and fundamental of nature,, the GENES,, is an act that brings about catastrophic, disaster and misery to human race and other creatures in the world matey.It is like a man jumps in the a raging flame and get burned all over and then says,,the blessing didn't work!!! Hope you get it mate!!!! and have a great day.
Oof, in july of 2020 and this year has been the worst.
@@Cissablack708 with all due respect,,,Tampering with the core and fundamental of nature,, the GENES,, is an act that brings about catastrophic, disaster and misery to human race and other creatures in the world matey.It is like a man jumps in the a raging flame and get burned all over and then says,,the blessing didn't work!!! Hope you get it mate!!!! with best regards .
Wow! I came across this video while helping my daughter do research for a project on Australian Aboriginal culture. I had no idea that the sounds from Aboriginal music were mostly coming from just this one instrument. I am now a huge fan of the didgeridoo!
Thank you--got the kids a didgeridoo each... and they're already practicing thanks to your video ;)
Great lesson in the dijirido really amazing what sounds are animals .
You are amazing player thanks for the insite on how to play .where abouts in the bush are you .I bet you been playing for a long time .
Don't have a didg? You can practice pretty well with a plain old piece of pvc pipe.
331 thumbs down? Why in the world would anyone unlike something as incredible and instructive as this? Great job.
Haters gon hate
Pity the fools.
Amazing lessons this guys deserves so much recognition
@david Hudson ...true gentleman. Thanks for sharing your gifts.
This video and the straw technique for continuous breathing tremendously helped me on the journey to meditate in the dream time via didgeridoo. Keep the rhythm pumping! Thanks
Me: trying to blow air in and out of my nose whilst blowing out my mouth without a didgeridoo at 2:40am
My neighbors: Is that a sasquatch?
Same as but it's 13:13
Haha! Me too....5:07 pm from an English living room armchair 😂‼️ What must the neighbours think? 🤣
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time! Thank you!
I love how he is imagining us watching him, trying all these things on our didgeridoo at home.
I recently became overwhelmed by the yearning to play this instrument. Maybe because it will open my throat chakra which will enhance my crown chakra. The vibration is amazing. So with that I thank you for showing me how to practice. I am going the buy one.
He is amazing! Would love to see him live! 👍❤️
Beautiful instrument and enchanting range of sounds.
he has so many animals in there, it put the biggest smile on my face
"Moepoke that's a bird that sits up in a tree, looks at ya" 🤣
And he makes the sound of the gaze: "Wooomp. Wooomp. Wooomp."😐
Anyone else make it here from the throat singing??
Yes. Was it those two dudes sitting in the forest? That one was really neat.
Yep
yep
Three guys in a forest? Yup.
I can thoart sing
I've been working at this thing for over 20 years, and keep coming back to this video, which has helped me more than anything. And still, I can't seem to get the right sound out of the center of my mouth, I always have to go a bit to the left side. And I think I just figured out why! I played the Highland bagpipes for years, starting as a teen, when I needed to strengthen my mouth to keep the pressure on the blowpipe. It took years to strengthen my mouth to get it right. Well, that blowpipe goes out towards the left to the bag, and now that is the same angle I need to use on the didge. Muscle memory is very, very strong.
The world's original beatboxers .Very good teacher David . I would love to play the didg maybe one day.
This vid. Has helped me quite a bit. I have the breathing down, got more work on sounds. Wish you had more vids. Thanks JC
This video is rare and I was lucky to get permission to upload it in 2010. David was very generous and it was initially to help my music students with their homework. Now it means so much more!
Samuel Wright Best tutorial on the interwebs, thank you good sir.
i cant get the breathing down. any tips?
Keep practising. It will click.
No more videos. This was all David gave me. But check out his site: www.davidhudson.com.au
Amazing video. Very informative. David Hudson is an incredibly talented and helpful person to help others learn this rare instrument.
Hey I just watched your video thanks heaps you explained it really simple. So I'm going to to give it a go thanks heaps mate. I bought a didgeridoo a few years ago that was played in the indigenous all stars opening ceremony and I need to give up smoking as I'm 58 and tried all the things that suppose to help you give up .so this didgeridoo might just do it for me. Hey mate thanks for a great video best wishes to you and thanks again. Cheers from len
One of my favorite scenes from Mad Dog Morgan is when David Gulpilil's character Billy is dancing on a rock to didgeridoo music and Dennis Hopper (Morgan) says "I'll never believe you're half white." Lol. Great movie. ♥ didgeridoo.
I have loved the sound of the didgeridoo for as long as I can remember and hearing about how the instrument is used to imitate natural native fauna is fascinating. Great teaching as well. This is what I love about the internet. And ancient cultures. Wonderful
I had a go the other day......its relaxing when you get the flow.
coolest guy ever
No, Trump is.
@@LeonDieBoer beuh
This youtube random algorithm thing is getting wild! Don't know how i ended up here...but i like it!
Respect to you, your people, your land and ya didge mate!!