Ultra smooth breathing
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Lesson overview
Have you ever listened to a didgeridoo player and not been able to tell when they are breathing? In this video we show you how to make your breath invisible
Lesson goals
- Play a consistent drone sound during your circular breath
- Control your drone sound through your breath by controlling your cheeks and diaphragm
Training tips
- Two techniques to help smooth the breath sound are your cheek control and diaphragm control
- Focus on these two techniques separately at first to get control of each
- Try tensing up your stomach through the whole circular breath to keep your diaphragm controlled and help avoid the louder pulse when you transfer from your cheek spit to blowing again
- Take small regular breaths so you only ever need to breathe in a very small amount of air
- Keep changing the harmonics of your drone by slowly moving your tongue. This will help disguise the breath as the sound is always changing
- Concentrate on the sound you are making first, then the technique. See where the sound is changing, then tweak your technique to smooth out
Give it a try, let us know how you go and if you get stuck, post a question in the comments section below
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Hi Sanshi, I hope you are well!
I have been working on this technique for a while now and I am having difficulty with it. A question I have is in this video are you taking a deep breath in with your stomach tight or a small sniff? I have tried deep breaths and small breaths and I cannot figure out how to switch back to diaphragm breath without a short pause and pulse. Also, when I switch to cheek squeeze the drone is slightly weaker than diaphragm breath. I am getting close to eliminating the “bowoop” sound, but I can’t figure out how to do a nice smooth drone. Just wondering if you are able to word anything differently for me here? (Also, is there a way I can send you videos, I feel like that would be helpful). Thanks!
Hi Max,
Thanks for your enquiry. Firstly, I’m using cheek breath on this video and you can try deep breath or short sniff breath either way you can make a smooth connection, most importantly making sound smooth, in another word making the air flow to be even. So you need to squeeze your cheeks gently and connect air from the lung gently.
If you are doing bounce breath (just using diaphragm breath) it will make a pulse as diaphragm will be making the pulse sound.
Weak Drone means weak pressure? Make sure your air flow is coming out from the pinhole embouchure with fine vibrations. and keeping the same pressure while squeezing and connecting. try connecting very slowly!
I hope this helps!
Cheers
Sanshi
Hi Sanshi,
Another question for you! I have been working on circular breathing the past 3 months (since I last posted), and I discovered I was breathing wrong. My belly was going in and out instead of me breathing down into my back with my diaphragm. I corrected this mistake and now I am able to play for about 1 min and 15 seconds instead of 40 seconds. After about 1 minute and 15 seconds though I still run out of breath or have too much breath. I am playing on a B didgeridoo, which is my favorite so far. Just wondering if I should continue to add 5 seconds every week to a timer to practice lengthening my playing time? Also, how much should I use my nose versus use my diaphragm – I feel the more diaphragm I use the more pressure there is. Looking forward to your help!