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aka: didjeridu, didj,yidaki,
didge, Aboriginal music, Australian music.

Chris Adnam's
How to play the Didgeridoo.
The Lessons, the Land, the Spirit.
how to play the didgeridoo
First released at Didjfest 1996 Chris Adnam’s video has become something of a standard reference for didgeridoo instruction. The programme set out to combine Chris’ clear musical technique with a film makers sense of the wonder of this ancient and isolated land. The popularity and widespread acceptance of this unusual mix of music and images quite simply thrilled us. Like learning the didgeridoo itself, we surrendered to a process that drew us to a conclusion we had not quite anticipated.
Below are some details that should set this project and our intentions in making this didgeridoo teaching video into context.
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Chris has studied the dramatic, multi-voiced staccato style of didgeridoo playing from tribesmen in Arnhem Land. But he has developed a unique and contemporary style of playing that is clearly unlike the sacred and still current ceremonial and social usages of the traditional music.
Chris Adnam teaching didgeridoo

Chris' virtuoso representation of the Arnhem Land style is made to offer thedidgeridoo student a traditional-style direction to the international spread of interest in this powerful instrument. He has taken great are to preserve the tribal roots of this music by leaving the naming of the traditional notes and the musical structures of the songs in the control of the tribes where they belong.

Our programme has been very well received by a variety of didge playing groups in Australia, in no small part because of the respectful way we are able to introduce and explain the playing technique of this important and evocative ceremonial instrument.

The sound that dreams the land, the didgeridoo.

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Chris Adnam's How to play the Didgeridoo. The lessons, the Land, the Spirit
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