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MystikMushroom
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My didgeridoo and me!
#5423902 - 03/20/06 10:59 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Does anyone else play this very, very cool instruments? I bought an el cheapo bambo-ish one at an import store for rather cheap. I've heard PVC ones that don't even sound bad! I had a breakthrough today messing around. I had this urge to play it, sat down and said in my head, "Im going to get this damned circular breathing down..its almost like a french inhale".
SO I took a straw, some water and practiced keeping the bubbles going by pushing the air out with my cheeks whille sucking up air with my nose and then switching back to my lungs.
And all be damned if i didn't get it on the didge! FINALLY! After fiddling around for a bit I settled into a nice 5 min session non-stop! It was awesome! The breathing almost got rythmic and very trance-inducing. Afterwards my body was still vibrating and felt very, very energetic. My head was also very buzzed as well!
Here's some info I found today about the didgeridoo:
"The page on Didgeridoo Sound Healing on this web site shows that the distribution of frequencies also contains not only harmonics going up to 1000 Hz but also extremely low frequencies way below the Alpha brainwaves, in the same area as the rhythms of drumming commonly used in shamanistic rituals of Aborigines and peoples all over the world, time-tested to help in inducing altered states of consciousness. This may help to explain why the didgeridoo many thousands of years ago found its way into Aboriginal shamanistic and healing practices."
I've had this thing for about a year now and it's finally starting to really be fun. I can do all the "wa-wa's" and "owie-owie" sounds and then throw a hum undertone to really make it sound cool.
My dog really hates it though, he gets all concerned looking.
Anyway, anyone else have any experiences, stories, or further info on the didge? I think it really could be used powerfully as a meditative tool now.. . .
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awesome
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MellowMood
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vibrations, escpecially when tripping, are wonderfull...it is very medative, it always reminded me of Om meditation in that the vibrations fill your body with life and light.
Try playing a didg and a Djemba at the same time, thats fun!
Lets heal the world with Didges! Gigantic meditation sessions led by didgeradoos and ommm chanting!
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MystikMushroom
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Re: My didgeridoo and me! [Re: MellowMood]
#5425948 - 03/21/06 03:51 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I used the didge when i tripped on 2c-i the first time (research chemical). It was very "absorbing". It wasn't to profound as you would think, but then again 2c-i isn't a tryptomine...
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JacquesCousteau
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I'm really interested in getting one. Learning circular breathing is helpful in life in general, nevermind just playing a didgeridoo. So I figure having a sort of "audio guide" for learning circular breathing is a very good idea...
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Quote:
MystikMushroom said: I used the didge when i tripped on 2c-i the first time (research chemical). It was very "absorbing". It wasn't to profound as you would think, but then again 2c-i isn't a tryptomine...
I find hallucinogens less appealing... I prefer the "profundity with a certainty of understanding what's in front of me" that I get with tryptamines.
On 2c-i I was just confused, because I couldn't tell what was really happening and what wasn't.
It seemed as if my closed eye visuals were invading my open eye visuals, but only in the wee corner of my eye, where I would see something incredibly outlandish, then turn to look at it and see normalcy.
Also, perhaps we were poorly dosed, but the peak felt like a train had hit me equally on every square inch of my body. Just this incredible, blaring, unbelievable level of shock... I swore I could feel my consciousness, blasted into a cloud about a foot outward in every direction from my body, completely avoiding my body. Floating just outside it in a daze...
Ahem. I'm going to go look up didgeridoos...
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i could never get the whole circular breathing bit down well enough to play a didge for longer than a minute maybe. they used to sell them in this store in the mall and i would always come in and try to play them cus i was the only one who knew how, lol, even the employees didnt undestand how to work it.
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Re: My didgeridoo and me! [Re: ShroomDoom]
#5426692 - 03/21/06 06:25 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I've been trying to learn to play the didge for some time now. I can usually play for short periods of time without stopping but circular breathing is always a chore for me.
It helps to have a good didge. I bought my first one from a vendor at a music festival super cheap. I later found out why. It had more holes in it than a screen door. The decorative painting on it helped to cover that up. Now it's just for looks. If you can't get back pressure, you can't, easily, accomplish circular breathing.
My second didge had only one small hole where a knot in the wood was. For a while I just covered it with my finger when I played, but now it's plugged with bees wax. I'm slowly learning with this one, but I don't think I like it's sound. I want a deeper, more bass filled tone.
I have PVC didge in the works. I'm heating and twisting the pipe, making it look unique. For the bell, I'm heating up the end and using an old bowling pin to create a flared effect. I plan to sand it with rough sand paper, giving it grain, and painting it earth tones or black with decorations. I have it to a point right now that it can be played and it sounds better than my wooden didge. Depending on how this one turns out, I may play around with different thicknesses and lengths of pipe for new didges.
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MystikMushroom
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Re: My didgeridoo and me! [Re: Ekstaza]
#5432445 - 03/22/06 11:23 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ive been reading Terence McKenna's "True Hallucinations"; in which his brother Dennis makes low-tones whille dosed on a harmine/DMT/psyilocybin complex. It had similar charateristics to feeling "shocked"...I'm surprised on the 2c-i I didn't feel anything. I was "frying" (best way to describe the sensation...It was definatley speedy and in the phenethamine class) for at least 6 hours. It was very eye-candyish and non-spiritual. I never felt "out of reality" or anything. Just intense body sensations and visual distortions. Lots of "heatwave" visuals. . .
However, I did kinda go into a trance with the didge... I must have spent about an hour and a half of the trip clinging to the didge..lol. It was before I learned circular breathing, so I had to stop every 20 seconds or so and breathe. I think that also makes a diffrence.
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