Video: Advanced Articulation with the Didgeridoo

In didgeridoo playing, articulation means creating rhythmic patterns by breaking up your airflow. Learn about advanced articulation techniques on the didgeridoo in this free music lesson video from a professional musician and exotic instrument expert.

Video Transcript

Those are some advanced ways to articulate also when you've gotten past simply using consonants and your airflow to get articulation. This is something that I brought over from trumpet playing, a technique that I had there known as double tonguing. It's just a combination of 2 consonants, T and K, or D and G. Some of the approximation like that. The idea is that you alternate between the 2. T, K, T, K, T, K. This is something you can practice without even playing the instrument just going. Initially, they'll sound like your other articulations. The advantage is with practice you can do them extremely fast. That's alternating between the T and K. There's a very similar technique, known as triple tonguing. Really it's very similar, except that you're doing a pattern of 3. You're going T, T, K, T, T, K. Again, you start off slowly and simply, but ultimately it can be very fast. The final one related to that would something known as flutter tonguing, which not everybody can do this but it would be a question of literally pushing a lot of air past your tongue and letting flutter up on the top of your mouth. You get that kind of a sound through the instrument. Kind of a motor boat sort of sound.

Advanced Articulation with the Didgeridoo

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