"White Oak Mantra" Concert Quality Multi Drone Didgeridoo
Watch a VIDEO demo of this didgeridoo below! This didge is customized for a technique that Will, the Yeti himself, developed to play SUPER LOW drone notes. The basic technique involves dropping the fundamental drone or pitch of a didge an exact octave below what it normally is, whilst keeping the didgeridoo normal sized rather than 8 to 12 feet long. The concave mouthpiece conforms to your face for a perfect fit, and is slightly larger than most didge players are accustomed too, enabling better lip movement and control for advanced styles.
Will says, "This is an all around incredible multiple drone didgeridoo. The outside has two coats of epoxy that have been buffed out and rubbed down with a satin wipe-on polyurethane. The interior coat is a single layer of epoxy resin. The mouthpiece and bell cap are made from maple and walnut. The concave mouthpiece conforms to your face for a perfect fit and a comfortable, superior seal. This makes a larger mouthpiece easily manageable to provide the maximum amount of subtle lip control that is unattainable on flat small mouthpieces. This subtle lip control is what makes hitting lower drone frequencies possible. The mouthpiece has been sanded down and re-coated with 6 coats of tung oil. This gives it a nice texture and an organic material for the contact point with your mouth. Tung oil can easily be renewed over time unlike epoxy resin. This didgeridoo has been balanced so that its concave mouth piece aligns perfectly with your mouth in a naturally held position. This type of mouthpiece is recommended for playing out of the front of the mouth to achieve the drop octave technique (for more see the video Side vs Front on www.wetdidgeridoo.com Such a handsome didgeridoo, not to mention eco-friendly (being recycled from a felled tree). The bell or distal end is very clear and open which increases volume, harmonics, and clarity of tone. Solid, gorgeous finish. Double resin coated inside and out for enhanced sound quality, luster and durability. Buffed to a satin finish. Features a smooth and comfortable mouthpiece that's been sanitized with Didgeri-Clean This didgeridoo is waterproof, unaffected by hot or cold weather conditions, and very easy to care for, no worries. Soundwise: Concert Quality Will says, "This didgeridoo was a custom order that the customer couldn't afford by the time I finished it. He asked for something good for healing and I based it off my favorite Djalu instrument. It has a very powerful hypnotic drone sound with a wider bore in the neck for really rich harmonics and vocals. A great instrument for the healer or someone with a drone based style. It has a multi drone mouthpiece with and octave jump to the first trumpet so it sits a little lower than a traditional instrument making it an awesome mix of the modern drop octave and traditional euc style instrument. Rich drone sound!! That's what this thing is all about and you will get lost in it! The wood is valley oak and I grew up climbing this tree on my parents property line before my neighbors cut it down. so of course my first thought was 'It must be a didge!' Oak is one of the harder woods and makes the didgeridoo have a very heavy solid delivery." Read our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Includes our didgeridoo care guide and playing guide. Watch Will demo this didgeridoo for you and see the instrument in vivid HD detail! Just click on the video below.
Key: C#+5 and multiple
Overtone toots: C#, Bb, E, A
Skill: Beginner to Advanced
Wood: Oak, maple, walnut
Length: 70.75"
Top: 1.38" Inner diameter
Bottom: 3.75" Outer
diameter Mouthpiece: Maple, walnut Backpressure: Strong
Weight: 5.2 lbs / 2.4 kg
Ease of play: Very easy
Loudness: Low IIIIIII I I
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CONCERT QUALITY Same as performance quality, but with perfectly balanced acoustics . PERFORMANCE QUALITY First rate, professional grade sound and playability.HIGH QUALITY Above average sound. Better than most found at comparable prices.GOOD QUALITY Nice introductory didgeridoo, but may lack in tonal quality and/or volume.FAIR QUALITY Not for serious playing. Good for muking around on, or as a conversation piece.
About William Thoren William Thoren is a crafter, performer and photographer best known for discovering and developing the Drop Octave and Multi Drone techniques. He lives in Southern California in the heart of the Santa Monica mountains. William picked up the didgeridoo at the age of 11 while on a family vacation in Costa Rica. All throughout middle school and high school made his own didgeridoos out of PVC pipe, yucca, and later hard woods. William now only makes wooden instruments “working with wood gives me the most control over playability as I can start with a thick log and shape exactly what I want”. In 2007 he traveled to Australia to further pursue the art of playing and crafting the didgeridoo. While there he traveled for 3 months with William Barton, an acclaimed Aboriginal didgeridoo player who performs with symphony orchestras worldwide. Barton later connected William with Djalu Guruwiwi, custodian of the Yidaki and one of the most respected traditional makers of the instrument, with whom, he spent time in North East Arnhem Land learning traditional methods of crafting the instrument. “With these techniques I design the most dynamic instruments for fusing didgeridoo with western styles of music and the most sonically dynamic solo instruments available on the market. The Multi Drone technique has opened doors for me to use didgeridoos in ways i never imagined possible. My dream is that the didgeridoo can be used as fundamental piece of a band throughout many styles of music. The expanded range of these new instruments has enabled me to write music around didgeridoo more dynamically than ever before. My favorite thing about the world of didgeridoo is that we operate like one big family. I have to thank William Barton, Chad Butler, Djalu Guruwiwi, Geoff Frost, Tyler Spencer and Ondrej Smeykal who have all influenced my crafting and playing in a huge way". See more photos of Will Thoren in the LA Outback Blog !Check out Will's photography by Clicking Here
Advanced Lip Control Will Thoren discusses how to develop lip control for playing the didge. This is part 1 of 2. In the next video, "Applying Lip Control To Multi-Drone", Will talks about how to apply the advanced lip control to the Multi-Drone technique.
Dropping the Drone One Octave Below To learn this technique one must first understand that it is based 100% on lip control. It is common to confuse the technique with other pitch bending techniques such as dropping the jaw but believing this will slow down the road to mastery. With that said, you may find some sort of movement with your face that helps you achieve the dropped pitch in the first place (this may involve dropping the jaw or using more of the bottom lip) but once you are comfortable it will become as easy as playing the regular drone. Your top and bottom lips will be doing equal work and your jaw will actually close a little bit. If you watch the videos of me playing you will see that my head nods down whenever I play the drop octave. This lowering is actually a closing of the jaw because my lower jaw stays in exactly the same space while my upper jaw closes down on top of it. This movement naturally makes the lips protrude a little more outward which allows for a looser flapping. None of this jaw talk is important for learning the technique, i am simply stating what is so in relation to the jaw to save any confusion as i am commonly asked that question. The Bigger the mouth piece the better for learning. Once the technique is achieved you may find yourself able to play it on smaller mouthpieces. So why is it easier to learn on a bigger mouthpiece?
Imagine you are creating the note with your lip vibration and you don’t even need a didgeridoo to play the note. Try humming the note of the didgeridoo you are attempting to play it through and then recreate the same pitch by flapping your lips. You’ll notice if you start with a really loose flapping of the lips (sounds like a horse) and then begin to smile, the pitch and speed of your lips will increase. Try starting with a big smile before you start vibrating your lips and then once vibrating, release the smile and listen to the speed and pitch drop. this will give you an idea of what is meant by “lip control”. Creating different pitches with your lips. if you can develop a little it of control with creating vibration without the didgeridoo it will be easier to find the sweet spot where the actual drop octave note sits. It’s like learning to play didgeridoo all over again and for this reason may be more frustrating for experienced players.Side vs. Front Playing Many didgeridoo players play out of the side of their mouth because the clarity of the drone sound is easier to achieve. Often the front sounds softer and not as rich in the early stages of playing. From my experience, with practice, frontal playing allows for equal clarity once mastered and opens up a larger range of possible control. Mastering frontal playing is a lottle more difficult at first but has huge payoffs in the end. Making the switch to playing out of the front is possibly the most important foundation to learning this technique.
Powerful Breathing Maximizing Lung capacity Breathing effectively will reduce a lot of stress when learning any new techniques on the didgeridoo. Due to the larger mouth piece size required for playing these techniques, it is important that one has good control of breath when moving up to something that requires more air then normal.
Dynamic Multi-Drone This technique expands upon the drop octave technique to play more than just one or two extra drone notes.
Isolations Ondrej Smeykal This technique teaches how to breathe using your jaw, giving you an “extra set of lungs” to build complex rhythms with. Also breaking down individual mouth movements that can be used with this technique. This video is the first of many where we will feature guest performers from around the world teaching lessons on groundbreaking techniques and the basic foundations of playing.
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