Didgeridoo-Online. Cicular breathing - how to play the didgeridoo.


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Circular Breathing Mostly circular breathing is conceived as simultaneously inhaling through your nose while exhaling through your mouth. This is indeed impossible. Circular breathing is much more a pressing out of air from your cheeks while simultaneously inhaling through your nose. As there are a few things to coordinate using this new technique, it is best to learn circular breathing in various steps. 1. Blow your cheeks out. Exhale out of your nose until your lungs are empty. Now press your cheeks together. The air escapes through your mouth with an explosive sound. 2. While pressing your cheeks together inhale through your nose. If you can’t do it simultaneously, press the tip of your nose lightly with your index finger. If it still doesn’t work, press at the same time with your thumb and index finger of the other hand your expanded cheeks together. It should at this point work! After you have repeated this several times, take turns alternately leaving one of the two hands out of the exercise. You will slowly gain more and more confidence. 3. The wet exercise. Fill your mouth with water. Place yourself in front of a bathtub for example and spit the water out. At the same time breathe in through your nose. 4. Now press the air slowly out through your cheeks and inhale slowly at the same time. So that the coordination works better, you can at first use your fingers again to help (as described in exercise 2). I see again and again that beginners blow out and breathe in with too much hectic. 5. The last exercise is again moist. In most didgeridoo instruction books there can be found an exercise using a glass of water and a straw described as follows: Fill a glass of water. Blow through a straw into the water creating loud bubbles at the surface. Perhaps you will be reminded of your childhood! The boring restaurant dinners, blowing bubbles in the glass, being warned by your parents...Now back to the exercise - inhale gently while you are blowing the bubbles. If the bubbles and spraying don’t stop, you’ve done it!	Finally we get to the instrument!! Here it is also best to take it in several steps: 1. Take the didge to your lips. Blow out your cheeks. Inhale through your nose until your lungs are empty. Now press your cheeks together while simultaneously inhaling through your nose. A sound will be created that won’t in the least remind you of the original sound. And it shouldn’t!! 2. Play your instrument. The cheeks are expanded. Count in your head 1, 2, 3, 4. On 4 press the air out of your cheeks while simultaneously inhaling through your nose. If you have trouble coordinating, use your fingers again to help as in the previous exercises. It’s not a problem if the tone fluctuates. Repeat exercises 1 and 2 as much as you can to gain confidence. 3. Now try to hold the note. Count in your head repeatedly 1 through 4. Always inhale at the same number. We’re not trying to break a world record in circular breathing. If you can do it just a few times that is already a great accomplishment!It will take some time until you command this breathing technique. Once you have made the initial hectic a thing of the past and your breathing becomes steadier, you will be able to play as long as you wish. The record is about 1 hour. Well then, have a great time! Copyright: Michael David