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circular breathe in a didgeridoo......
Circular breathing allows
you to play uninterrupted notes on a didgeridoo... Uninterrupted by having
to stop blowing so you can breathe in that is....
Breathing in and breathing out at the same time is physically impossibile.
You have to somehow keep on blowing the didge while you breathe in...the
only way you are going to be able to breathe in, is through your nose,
if your mouth is constantly blowing a note on the didjeridoo. So you need
to breathe in through your nose while you play right?...unless you can
breathe through your ears!
Somehow the cheeks have to blow the didgeridoo all by themselves while
you breathe in.
Fill your cheeks with air, don't hold your breath, just fill your cheeks with air and keep them filled. Increase the pressure with more air if necessary untill they are quite puffed out and with your cheeks full, just breathe normally in through the nose and out through the nose while keeping that air pressure locked in your mouth with the back of your tongue..
That is as simple as it sounds. Puff your cheeks up with air and lock it in there with the back of your tongue, hold it while you go about your daily business, breathing in through the nose and out through the nose, cheeks all puffed up.
Now at any time
you could use your cheeks to squeese that air out of your mouth couldn't
you? Using only your cheeks,
squeese the air out and make a noise, the longer the better
Even move your tongue forward to keep up the pressure. Breathe in through your nose while making
the noise with your cheeks and then naturally breathe out and some of the air
coming out naturally flows into your cheeks and fills them up again...playing the didjeridoo....and
you will be literally blowing out at the same time as you are breathing
in!!!
Aboriginal culture for kids
....Indigenous Studies
& Cultural awareness
Trade
There were many ancient trade routes along rivers and pathways throughout
Australia and Aborigine people travelled and traded along these tracks
for thousands of years...
....In this way new dances, songs and stories travelled
along the Dreaming trail.
Some stories or song lines are shared between tribes and continue on to
connect all the tribes in Australia.........
Ochre, feathers, beeswax were all used for decorating the body, hair and equipment for ceremonies. The materials used would reflect their ancestry, story or journey.
Indigenous Games
Big discs cut from Gum tree bark were used for a rolling, hunting game
where the children practice throwing spears, hunting boomerangs and stones....
... The disc was quite strong and could be rolled and bounced from side
to side.
Palm leaves were used for towing kids or possessions much like a toy wagon.
Paper bark was heaped into a raft and used for youngsters to dive and fish from.
Underwater games were popular for example turtles were
painted with white clay and chased underwater..
Tiny spears and woomeras were made from reeds and saplings
String games told stories of ancient events and adventures by recalling significant points of the story as a pattern made by the string and fingers.
Kinship
............... So a child can call every woman in their mothers section
of the tribe their mother and so on. Children from the unions between
first or second group men and women then automaticaly go into other groups
........generation after that go back and forth. In some tribes there
were more than 16 such groups all working together plus related tribes...!.
Shelter
We Indigenous Australian Aborigines gained all our food and shelter directly
from the land. Bark from the giant gum trees were a readily available
source of sheeting to make into houses called humpies...and canoes
... the sheets were dried flat...Strips
can be to 2 metre wide and 20 ft long depending on the size of the tree
and the skill of the collector....
The bark will last years and replacement just a matter of getting the
necessary permission from the traditional owners of the trees. This would
usually entail giving ....
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