Queen Astrid Didgeridoo Lesson, Part 4: Advanced Styles & Trumpets

So we've covered the four interactions of basic didgeridoo playing. And it doesn't stay basic. A year from now, a couple years from now, you might be making some pretty amazing music just using these four things. But these didgeridoos, and a lot of other makers of didgeridoos, are making these tunes to be able to perform more avant-garde, maybe newer techniques, like fan stuff. I'm just going to briefly touch upon a couple here, just so you can be inspired. So, probably my favorite of kind of the newer styles of playing is the relative of beatboxing in what is known as Aircode. DuFranco de Paine, really, I wouldn't say he invented Aircode, but he developed it. He started creating instruments that were perfect for the beat. And then I started doing it. And then a lot of really harmonic instruments like this, where all the notes are in good places, will do it as well. And so what that is, is playing space right here on the mouthpiece. So I'm just doing... I'm touching the mouthpiece. And the basic tone here... And then there's a lot of things you can do. You can do a drum. You can do a little open. With the pop. You can do breath sounds. You can do a little dubstep. You can do trumpet. It's pretty fun stuff, and we're going to get into trumpet too. So, a quick little demonstration. And a lot of different things that play with Aircode. It's a whole other quality. It's kind of like the IS-100. What's new with digital music. Related to beatboxing, but it's so different. Because you're actually not... You're not creating any false sounds. You're using the resonance of the pitch. Using that tone right there. And using the trumpet. So trumpets, trumpets. This is really fun. This dude is amazing at trumpets. What trumpets are, is they are isolated overtones. So, kind of like the harmonics on a guitar. When they just hover slightly the fretboard finger. Over a key point on the string. And it goes... It's kind of like that. And each didgeridoo has unique... Each didgeridoo made of natural shapes. Has unique overtones. And can be played as trumpets. It has a lot of them. It's fun. So, you've probably already touched on some trumpets. Just practicing the drum. The first one, on this one, it's perfect off. Let's hear it. The drone. There's jumping. It's literally exactly twice the pitch. Instead of... It's... It's easier on the pitch. And then it just goes up and down. Almost in like a circle. I prefer to do my trumpet. My pure trumpet stuff. In front of my lips. And I like to move my mouth. Up to the top of the mouthpiece. In the center, you know. Gives you more for your drone. But with the trumpets, you're doing such a tiny aperture. That it's kind of nice to get towards the top. Kind of makes it more like a virtual trumpet. Feels smaller. But the trumpets can be... You know, you can play them out over the mountains. The valleys. And they are very loud. You can play it. You can just get a freedom. Getting pretty big. And vocal. You can play it just like a drone. Let's play it. You can use the trumpets in the drone as well, like shift up tone, it's actually a very traditional way to get back to the upper tone playing at this point. Amazing. Awesome. Ha, didn't mess that up. Freestyle. I'll do one I know. Yeah, I know. Pretty cool stuff. Yeah, so that's trumpet playing. A lot of stuff you can do with it, especially further down the line. You can use your voice in it too, especially the first one. You can sound like two crystal balls. So if I'm doing the armature for the first trumpet, C sharp. And I do a vocal. So you just half step up. So the drone is you. The first trumpet is you. If I go you, you get that cancellation frequency, that oscillation. And you can slow it up and speed it down. That's how it works. Two pitch with two trumpets. This happens in the drone too. You've already heard it. Let's go an octave above. Two above. You can do fifths. You've seen all sorts of chords. Low. Good. Super cool. Pretty fun stuff. Have fun with it. You can practice trumpets with nobody around. It's pretty good and pretty clean. They are really loud and do pretty abrupt. It makes a pretty funny sound. And it's making funny sounds, you know. Kids can make it sound like an elephant if you want. Right? Pretty fun stuff. You can do like lions. Super cool. This is the one. All sorts of stuff. And then circular breath rhythm. Something like the bounce rhythm. This stuff too in the diaphragm. Breathing. It's, you know, You're actually bouncing your diaphragm.