Try your hand at this didgeridoo rhythm from Ash Dargan!

If you want to understand the rhythm of a didgeridoo player, you first need to understand how he breathes.
In this video, I explain a fairly simple rhythm by the famous Ash Dargan, whose entire composition is based on WA breathing.
Ash Dargan is an Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo player who has made a name for himself with his precise, dynamic style and distinctive groove.
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[@christopheegremy2752]

I really do like how passionate you are when speaking about Ash Dargan style, this is the best way to transmit your passion and invite us to do as well, thanks a lot

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Thanks Chritophe for this nice comment. I really appreciate!

[@walkwomantaipei]

Cool! Please do some more videos like this to show differet dynamic styles.

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

👍 I will think about it!

[@mikeianosiproject-acoustic5924]

Dynamics... very well explained and i love how you picked a rhythm from Ash 🙂 one of my big influences.

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Thanks Mike! For me too, Ash was a very very great influence!

[@jonathancrabtree2533]

Love this rhythm 😊👍

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Yes Ash Dargan had a great style!

[@oscarsilva2271]

Respetos a mi maestro Ash Dargan

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Ash Dargan también es un mentor para mí y ha influido mucho en mi vida como jugador.

[@douglasgrenville9410]

Beautiful rhyme, thanks for decorticating this great piece by Ash Dargan.

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Thanks Douglas, I'm sure you remember that rhythms! ;-)

[@glmdex7459]

Super tuto, merci Gauthier 😋 C'est super complet comme exercice, aussi bien niveau rythmique que pour la précision. Tu nous en ferais encore avec d'autres monuments du didge 😋?

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Merci ! Je pense continuer ce format, ça à l'air de plaire. Mais faudra que je le fasse aussi en français !

[@raphaelbein8868]

Super tutoriel.. Merci beaucoup. J'ai essayé de faire le même travail sur un morceau de Ash Dargan "kwa dance of the crow". J'ai du mal à saisir les articulations utiliséses. Si un jour tu fais un tutoriel sur ce morceau ça serait top. Merci encore

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Salut Raphaël, J'aime particulièrement le grain de son qu'il a sur ce morceau ! En revanche, pour l'analyser et surtout le jouer c'est de boulot. Car il utilise une attaque particulièrement marquée avec la gorge (de ce que je comprends en l'écoutant tout en te répondant) qui rends la reproduction délicate si on veut le faire sonner précisément comme lui. Mais je me le met dans ma liste de morceaux à analyser, ça pourrait être un chouette défi. J'adore vraiment son son. ^^

[@AchtungBaby_87]

I like ash dargan style, and your lessons are the Best! ❤ What about your New album?

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Thank you very much for your comment! I just released an album "L'envol" on December 2023. Is that one you are speaking about? * The link is here: songwhip.com/gauthieraube/lenvol Also, I'm working with my new band (name is Volte) on tracks, you can listen here some ideas: gauthieraube.com/volte/ (it's in French but you just need to put play ^^)

[@DrLightWind]

I've been trying to figure out the phonetics of Ash Dargan to play in the last 6 months, but I haven't been able to. I really like his style, so it was a surprise when I saw your lesson with good details above. ✌ I like the way you explain where the dynamic should be. But I have a problem to overcome right now: If I do the first part with emphasizing the dynamics, unfortunately I run out of breath fast in circular breathing. I am thinking the cause is, maybe I don't have giant lungs to pump, as usually the aboriginal didgeridoo players having. 🤣 So the question is, how I should compensate to achieve the same dynamics playing? By the way, I am Bela the HU player if you remember. 😉

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Hi Bela, of course I remember you ;-) So if you're not getting enough air, there could be 3 reasons: - you're not breathing on each WA (sometimes you think you're breathing in air but in fact you're not). - you're not pursing your lips enough and too much air is coming out (you need to think about the quality of your sound). - you accentuate each to (or touf) too much. Since I'm beginning to know a bit about your style, I'll go for the third solution! Maybe you can say to yourself that you don't have to blow harder on the TOs but just quieter on everything else. If you want, you can try playing this rhythm in your next video, it's a good exercise!

[@DrLightWind]

@@WakademyDidgeridooSchool Thank you. 👍 Yes I hope by that time I'll be able to do its at last slowly. 🤞

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

@@DrLightWind I'm sur you can play it, we will that on your next video!

[@dojorich]

Nice work!

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Thanks!

[@lauravalenti1759]

I have tra to learn this specific rithm by Dargan some month ago without success. Now I found this video, and I'm very happy

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Great! I'm happy to help! Let me know if you can play it!

[@douglasgrenville9410]

I have used and adapted this rythme since we decorticated it at one of your workshops. I cannot play it as fast as Ash Dargan, but it is great to play.

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Ah great! Yes I’m like you, I like yo play that rhythms, it’s perfect to work the dynamic!

[@junttivision7743]

Great video. This will be my next practise challenge. What didgeridoo are you playing on this video?

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

Thanks for your comment! For that video, I was playing with a D didgeridoo from Bob Druett (Australia, Darwin). Bob is very very good crafter but he stopped I guess...

[@junttivision7743]

@@WakademyDidgeridooSchool ok. The harmonics are awesome on that didgeridoo.

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

​@@junttivision7743 Yes the harmonics are great ont it. But not only that: - the attacks are very precise - the bass are in the perfect balance with the high frequencies, and so the drone is, for me, perfect. - it's a very versatile didgeridoo - one of my best, it's (very very very) hard for me to find some perfects didgeridoos like this!

[@junttivision7743]

@@WakademyDidgeridooSchool it sounds great. I just made a 5 minute loop of the demo, so i can really get the rhytm in my memory. Ps. Your album Reneissance is amazing. I listen to it every day on my walks.

[@WakademyDidgeridooSchool]

@@junttivision7743 Oh thanks for the album! I released an other one, that I found better than Renaissance, you can check it here: songwhip.com/gauthieraube/lenvol Let me know what do you think! And good idea for the loop, very good way to practice.