Didgeridoo Breath Blog

Win this Earl Clements didgeridoo

mattreed — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:09:14 +0000

This incredible, high quality, hand crafted, Australian eucalyptus didgeridoo (valued at $795 AUD) could be yours, absolutely FREE.

How do I win?

Simple! Just purchase anything from our online store between now and October 10th 2010. You will be automatically in the draw to with this amazing instrument! The more orders you place, the more times you enter, the more chance you have of winning!

Winner will be drawn on October 11th 2010 and announced in the October DooNews email newsletter

Good luck, we hope you win!

More about this instrument…

The Look
One of the first things that jumps out about this didgeridoo is the beautiful spectled tones in this fine Australia eucalyptus timber. Closely followed is its incredible bell end. You can easily fit you hand in it. The inside of this didge is totally wild with termite grooves and tracks that make this didgeridoo totally unique.

The Sound
Well what a blend of frequencies, this didgeridoo has it all! Fat bottom end that shakes the window panes, strong mids that punch out the volume, and beautiful clear high-end frequencies that produce those razor sharp harmonics.

To Play
A sweet responsive didgeridoo that will be appreciated just as much by the beginner, as the advanced didgeridoo player. This is a truly versatile didgeridoo – it loves gentle meditative drones, but throw in some high-end cooking rhythms, and this didge lights up! It’s just as much a pleasure to play as it is to listen to.

The Stats

Key: D
1st Toot: F#
Length: 143cm
Weigth: 4.4kg
Bell Diameter: 15.5cm x 13cm
External Mouthpiece Diameter (timber): 5.5cm
Internal Mouthpiece Diameter (beeswax): 3cm

Listen

To win, just purchase anything from our online store between now and September 30th 2010. You will be automatically entered into the draw. The more orders you place, the more times you enter, the more chance you have of winning!

Best of luck and we can’t wait to draw the winner!

Matt, Sanshi, Tony, Matty, Tim, Paul, Simon

Lies Beijerinck – Didgeridoo Player Profile

mattreed — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:00:31 +0000

“Didge mother of Holland”, Lies Beijerinck has been playing didgeridoo since 1993.

Busking on the streets she developed her own style and soon was discovered by the Amsterdam dance scene. She has been playing at numerous parties and festivals ever since.

Nowadays she is known for her strong and articulated style throughout Europe.

How long have you been playing the Didgeridoo/Yidaki?
Since the summer of 1993.

How did you get introduced to this awesome instrument?
I was having diner outside and a guy was playing didgeridoo with a pvc pipe. I was fascinated by the sound and asked him if I could have a go on it. He had a couple of painted pvc pipes with bees wax to sell at a festival in Belgium, so it was no problem and I tried. For me it was magic (could make the sound straight away) and kept on playing around with it for 2 hours, I fell in love with it straight away, it was like coming home for me.

Did it take you long to achieve the Circular Breathing?
It took me 2 days.

What was your childhood dream job?
Veterinarian

How did you know you were to become a traveling performing didgeridoo player, was there a defining moment?
I traveled Australia and was busking wherever I was after playing 1 year. So I was basically a traveling didge player from that moment. But years later I was working in the didge shop in Amsterdam and Rai de Horna from Barcelona came to the shop and asked me if I was interested in playing at his festival (the first Tribales). There was a great review in the didge & co magazine and from that moment I performed all over Europe, the last two years it became the world.

You’ve traveled a bit and seen many things and tasted lots of amazing food from around the world what would be your favorite dish?
I am crazy about Thai food with fish, yummy!

Biggest musical/didgeridoo influence?
In the beginning my dear friend Alan Dargin was my biggest influence. Later Mark Atkins, Si and Mike Jackson.

The best advice you ever received and from who?
Be, not act was the best advice, can’t remember his name. But I lived it when I was with Aboriginal people.

Proudest moment?
When a musician friend that I think is a great musician said “I really enjoyed playing with you”!

Most important question…If you were a chicken, why would you cross the road?
I would cross the road if all my chicken friends would be on the other side partying!

Watch Lies play for us at Didgeridoo Breath

Download her didgeridoo album - 3ple-D “Zumo” here

Victor Wooten bass guitar and didgeridoo jam videos

mattreed — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:08:09 +0000

Today we were jumping out of our skins with excitement! We were so blessed to have Victor Wooten, one of the greatest bass guitarists in the world, visit us.

While Victor was on his Australian tour, he wanted the opportunity to jam with didgeridoo players. So in he came and far out, we had a ball!

The shop was buzzing, the Didge Breath team were so excited and having the opportunity to jam with a world class musician, made our year!

We managed to capture some great photos and videos for you so here they are…

Click here to see all the photos on our Facebook page

Watch the videos:

The full jam – Victor, Charlie, Sanshi, Levi

Victor & Sanshi

Victor & Levi

Who is Victor Lemonte Wooten?

He is an innovator, composer, arranger, producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. He is a skilled naturalist and teacher, a published author, a magician, husband and father of four, and a five-time Grammy award winner. But those gifts only begin to tell the tale of this Tennessee titan.

Victor, known for his solo recordings and tours, and as a member of the Grammy-winning super group, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, has won most every major award given to a bass guitarist. He was voted Bassist of the year by Bass Player Magazine three times and is the only person to have won the award more than once.

The youngest sibling of the five amazing Wooten brothers (Regi, Roy, Rudy and Joseph), Victor began playing music very early in life. Growing up in a military family in which his older brothers all played and sang, Victor began his musical journey under the tutelage of his oldest brother Regi. Realizing that the family band would be complete if they had a bass player, ten-year-old Regi began showing two-year-old Victor how to play. By the time he was 3, Victor was performing neighborhood concerts with his brothers in the front yard of their home in Hawaii. At age six, he was touring with his brothers as the opening band for soul legend Curtis Mayfield. After living in Sacramento, CA a few years, the family moved east where the Wooten Brothers continued to hone their skills playing countless clubs and concerts along the east coast.

Victor was influenced by bass mentors, Stanley Clarke, Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins, but cites his brothers and parents as his main influences. “In music and in life, my parents and brothers were the foundation. They prepared me for life by giving and teaching me love and honesty. They also taught me to keep my mind open and learn to adapt to life’s ever-changing circumstances. Their guidance has helped me stay grounded today.” By the early ’80s, now living in Newport News, Virginia, the brothers became mainstays at Busch Gardens theme park in nearby Williamsburg.

Victor was hired as a bluegrass fiddler after older brother, Roy, convinced Busch Gardens’ administrators that Victor could play. “I remember getting a phone call from Roy. He told me that he’d gotten me a job playing fiddle. I’d never played fiddle in my life. Roy asked me if I thought that I could learn to do it. I said, ‘yeah.’ So, I borrowed a violin from my high school and learned a few fiddle tunes. The people at Busch never knew. I worked there in the country show for many years.”

It was while working in the theme park that Victor and his brothers made connections with musicians in Nashville and New York. In 1988 Victor moved to Nashville, where he worked with singer Jonell Mosser and met New Grass Revival banjo ace Béla Fleck. Later that same year, Fleck enlisted Vic, his brother Roy (a.k.a. Future Man) and harmonica-playing keyboardist Howard Levy to perform with him marking the birth of Flecktones. After three highly successful albums, Levy departed in 1993. The band’s new trio format enabled Victor to develop and display a staggering array of fingerboard skills that turned him into a bass hero of epic proportions and helped earn the band their first Grammy.
With the Flecktones in full flight, Victor set his sights on a solo career, first forming Bass Extremes with fellow low-end lord Steve Bailey (leading to an instructional book/CD and two CDs, to date), and finally releasing his critically-acclaimed and ground-breaking solo debut, A Show of Hands, on Compass Records in 1996 (voted one of the most important bass recordings of all time). Soon after, Victor took his solo show on the road with drummer J.D. Blair. Momentum and accolades built with successive tours and the release of What Did He Say? in 1997, the Grammy-nominated Yin-Yang in 1999, and the double CD, Live In America in 2001.

Victor’s uncanny skills and growing popularity lead to recordings and performances with artists such as Branford Marsalis, Mike Stern, Bruce Hornsby, Chick Corea, Dave Matthews, Prince, Keb Mo, Gov’t Mule, Susan Tedeschi, Vital Tech Tones (with Scott Henderson and Steve Smith), the Jaco Pastorius Word Of Mouth Big Band, and the soundtrack of the Disney film Country Bears.
In 2005 Victor revisited his solo side with the release of Soul Circus (Vanguard Records). A three-ring affair, the disc boasts such guests as the Wooten brothers, Bootsy Collins, Arrested Development rapper/vocalist Speech, Howard Levy, Dennis Chambers, Saundra Williams, J.D. Blair, Derico Watson, fellow Flecktone Jeff Coffin, and a who’s-who of bassists, including Steve Bailey, Oteil Burbridge, Will Lee, Rhonda Smith, Christian McBride, T.M. Stevens, Bill Dickens, and Gary Grainger.

Palmystery (Heads Up Records), Victor’s latest solo work, showcases a wide array of playing and writing skills with songs like Left, Right, and Center (featuring three drummers all playing together), Miss U (featuring The Lee Boys), Us 2 (featuring Victor on slide bass along with blues man Keb Mo), and the thought provoking I Saw God which boldly states “He look like me – She look like you.” (Featured in the movie The Moses Code)

Victor also spearheaded the idea for the super group SMV (Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten). Their new release, Thunder (Heads Up Records), as well as the Thunder tour has quickly become a must-have, must-see product for people all around the world.
Victor Wooten’s Bass/Nature Camp, now in it’s tenth year, has helped hundreds of musicians of all ages from all corners of the world. The camp’s recent move to its own location Wooten Woods will provide even more opportunities for Wooten and his staff to share their lifelong experiences with others.

Continuing to grow as a person, artist, and teacher, Victor Wooten is always willing to share his gifts with all who desire to learn. Offering CDs, DVDs, lectures, workshops, and camps, as well as his groundbreaking novel The Music Lesson (Berklee Publishing – a division of the Penguin Group) Victor Lemonte Wooten is guaranteed to remain a positive force in the music industry.

For more info visit – www.victorwooten.com

Over 1000 fans on our didgeridoo facebook page

mattreed — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:36:28 +0000

Just a few months young, the Didgeridoo Breath facebook page is already a hive of activity.

Daily chats, new videos, hot news and most importantly… lots of fun!

Thank you all for your involvement, comments, ideas, feedback and conversation.

Click here to visit our Facebook page, “Like” us and join in on the fun!

HOT new Australian aboriginal didgeridoo maker – Earl Clements

mattreed — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:31:06 +0000

Never in the history of Didge Breath have we come across such a talented, diverse, consistent, quality didgeridoo maker that continuously makes great playing didgeridoos at amazing prices!

Meet Earl Clements… an Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo crafter and artist from the Northern Territory.

He has been so busy crafting the most amazing selection of didgeridoos for us and we have loaded them all onto our website for you. Over 45 to choose from!

We have photographed every didgeridoo and also recorded a unique sound sample to make choosing your Earl Clements didgeridoo easy and fun.

> Click here to visit the collection

Didgeridoo Concert at Didge Breath – Fremantle, Western Australia

mattreed — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:30:48 +0000

Didgeridoo lovers, we have a didgeridoo concert for you!

The time has come for the Didge Breath team to fire up the PA, get out the mic’s, select our favorite didges and perform our best didgeridoo playing for you!

Details are:

Where: Didgeridoo Breath, 6 Market St, Fremantle, Western Australia

When: Thu 19th Aug 2010

Time: 7pm – 9pm

Tickets: $10

Can’t wait to see you there!

On Facebook? Click here to see this event

Indigenous Day Tours Perth – Aboriginal Food, Art, History and Didgeridoo Playing

mattreed — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:56:37 +0000

If you are in Perth, or planning a trip sometime soon, then make sure you book in a day tour with Urban Indigenous Tours.

I was lucky enough to join in on the tour recently and had an absolute blast!

We jumped on the bus in Perth and headed to our first destination – to learn about Aboriginal Art from one of Perth’s most famous artists and Aboriginal Elders, Sheila Humphries.

Sheila taught us about the Aboriginal art style, stories and symbols and also talked about her artwork in the Guinness Book of Records. Amazing! Then it was our turn to apply our newly learnt knowledge of aboriginal art and symbols, and create some art of our own.

It was then time to head to Indigenous Art for some retail therapy

Back on the bus now (rocking it out to local indigenous radio station Noongar Radio) and off to Maalinup Aboriginal Gallery.

Brenton showed us how to throw a spear, taught us some more about aboriginal art and gave a great didgeridoo performance.

We then got to try some tastie bush tucker and time for some more fun shopping.

Next stop… lunch at local Indigenous cafe. Yummy!

A quick trip on the bus to let the food settle and we turn up at Didgeridoo Breath. It’s time to learn how to play the didgeridoo. Cool!

What a great day!

No trip to Oz is complete without an Urban Indigenous day tour, we highly recommend it.

Thanks Bec for such a great experience!

For more info and to book a tour, visit: www.urbanindigenoustours.com

Or check out their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/urbanindigenoustours

1st Annual 3DFest – Drum.Dance.Didge…Heal. Arizona, USA

mattreed — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:12:28 +0000

Watson Lake Park , Prescott, Arizona, USA

3 Nights of Music, 2 Days of Education and Celebration.

The multicultural rhythm and music event will feature more than 20 hours of modern and traditional world music and dance performances and over 50 group drum, dance, didgeridoo and sound healing workshop delivered be local, national, and international rhythm and dance artists for all ages and skill levels.

Notable performances include Gangi Giri, Tchiya Amet & the Light House Band, Wunmi & the Slow Commotion, Ondrej Smeykal, Dusu Mali Band, Sene Africa and Anupam Shobhakar.

Other attractions include: Interactive Youth Area, Vendors and Craftsmen, Group Spiral Dance, Community Drum Circle, Wholesome Food, Yoga, Open Mic, Community Lunch, Raffle, Hiking, Kayaking, and Camping.

Venue Location: Watson Lake Park. Watson Lake Rd. N HWY 89. Prescott, Arizona, USA

Event Date and Time:
Friday Aug 20 – 2pm – Midnight
Sat Aug 21st – 8am – Midnight – Workshops 9am – 430pm – music 430pm- midnight
Sun Aug 22nd – 8am – Midnight – Workshops 9am – 430pm – music 430pm- midnight

Ticket Prices:

Weekend Pass (all 3 days)
$55 (online)
$60 (at the gate)
$25 Youth (11-17)

Friday Nite Only – $10
Sat or Sun – $35

Youth (11-17) Day Pass – $10

Children 10 & Under are FREE

To buy tickets:
Phone: 610 – 597 – 9759
Online: www.az3dfest.com/buytickets2010
Email: 3dfestinfo@gmail.com

Contact Info: Nikk Stevers – 3dfestinfo@gmail.com – 610-597-9759

For a complete schedule and more details, visit www.az3dfest.com

How to make didgeridoo sounds using your voice – the dog bark

mattreed — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:25:40 +0000

This video shows you how to make a great dog bark sound on the didgeridoo by adding your voice. Enjoy the didgeridoo lesson and happy didgeplaying!

If you want more tips and tricks, check out the Playing The Didgeridoo DVD and CD Series here.

Setup tips for the Hands Free Didgeridoo Stand | Video

mattreed — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:16:47 +0000

Watch this video for tips and tricks to setting up the hands free didgeridoo stand. They are a great stand that allows you to play any other instrument with your hands at the same time as playing didgeridoo. Shakers, guitar, drums, djembe, tapping sticks and more, have fun with your hands-free didgeridoo stand! Click here to buy a hands free didgeridoo stand online