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So I've been playing the didge for a few years now. I can do bouncing sounds, animal sounds, scream, speak through it, you name it. But, much to my dismay, I STILL cannot master circular breathing. I've been told to try spitting water in the shower while breathing in. I've been told to blow bubbles with a straw while breathing in. This is really frustrating. Can anyone offer advice?
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Re: Circular breathing. Help!
Tue, March 6, 2007 - 8:23 PMJ, I was just about to start a new topic on circular breathing. I am in the same boat as you! I would like to hear what others have done to master this technique. So, all of you circular breathers out there, please share your secret on how you got it down. Hopinjon -
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Re: Circular breathing. Help!
Wed, March 7, 2007 - 10:54 PMHmmm, how to convey breath from this box............
I've had good results from this approach to circular breathing:
Most importantly, forget about breathing through your nose untill the following steps come with ease. While creating the didj. sound/ compression with air flowing out from the lungs allow your cheeks (the face cheeks) to fill with air and decompress. When this is comfy to do, begin squeezing the air from the cheeks and cut airflow from your lungs a split seccond later. The desirable result is a seccond or two of the didj. sound/ compression created until there is no more air to squeeze from the cheeks then stop and repeat the step.
The concept is to simplify an unframiliar way of breathing. Well, all this makes sense in my own head, I hope it helps. Aloha, JOL -
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Re: Circular breathing. Help!
Thu, August 23, 2007 - 8:05 PMThat's a very good excercise to learn to circular breathe, and I'd like to add on to it a little. When your cheeks are beginning to run out of air (remember, at this point you're not using your lungs at all), slowly start blowing air in with your lungs so that the drone doesn't end when your cheeks run out of air. This can be then repeated many times on one breath of air, and with only a short amount of practice, this will get you used to alternating using your lungs and your cheeks to produce the drone. Once this becomes easy for you, it won't take long to get the hang of breathing in through your nose while using your cheeks to expel the air.
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Re: Circular breathing. Help!
Fri, March 16, 2007 - 6:22 AMHere is what got CB working for me.
- First I had to realize that I missed a step for circular breathing on the didge. That is to be able to maintain a 2-3 second drone with ONLY the air in your cheeks.
- So, I practiced for about an hour getting a drone sound from just the air in my puffed cheeks.
- After I got that step, it flowed together after maybe 20 minutes on the didge.
Worked for me, hope it helps,
Allan -
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Re: Circular breathing. Help!
Wed, May 16, 2007 - 6:50 AMA great way to trick your self into goin that sound and breath thing at the smae time is to breath out all your air ...exhale evey thing and then buzz your lips. and presto "A" circular breath.
peace
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Re: Circular breathing. Help!
Mon, July 30, 2007 - 7:42 AMI found a couple things that helped me to get circular breathing fairly quickly after I got my first real didge (Aspen didg by Ben Hicks here in Colorado). I originally had a PVC didge that I could drone on , but I did not like the sound and never really did much with it. Once I got the aspen, I figured out I needed something to really get me started so I purchased a 5 part series "Playing the Didgeridoo" from LA outback. The first CD takes you through basic sounds and within a short period of time I was circular breathing on the PVC (maybe used the CD 3-4 times for that to happen). They use the spit breath method on that - no water for me - thanks. It was more of an accident at first. Then it was much easier. Once I knew what it felt like to do at all, it quickly translated over to the aspen. The other thing I highly recomend if you are stuck is to find a local didge maker - they often give lessons. Here in colorado there are a number of makers who give lessons.
The flip side of circular breathing an "in breath" is circular breathing an "out breath". I learned this from my didg teacher since I was loading up too much air and I did not want to make things loud to off load or make a crack at the side of my mouth to let it leak out.
All my best,
Jennifer
