ABORIGINAL ARTS
DIDGERIDOO YIDAKI WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

- Dubravko Lapaine -

Sunday 6th June 2010
12.30pm - 4.30pm

£40.00

At Stratford Unitarian Church, West Ham Lane, E15

"Without any musical background or ambition Dubravko started playing the didgeridoo many years ago and just didn't stop. Not for his carrier, not for his friends, not for his girlfriend, not even for food some days. His passion grew and his style became distinctly personal and magical. The desire to explore the potential sound of this most basic of instruments led him to stretch and distort the basic natural design into a multitude of shapes and dimensions (reaching a length of 10m and frequency of 20Hz) resulting in his own unique sound and performance for the New Earth."

Parallel Playing :

LEVEL 2 - Articulations and phrases in parallel playing This workshop works with at least two thirds of material done in LEVEL 1. It further develops breathing and leveling the sounds of PP, techniques like (th)underkick.  We now include more actively tongue, mostly in front manner, we pay more attention to the jaw, and learn how they interact in fast breathing games. ...if there are enough students from the Saturday w/shop, or the students already know parallel playing, then this will be subsituted by... Level 3 - Sounds : Here I would like to present the kingdom of didgeridoo sounds, from biggest to smallest. I would like to point out some things that are less obvious. I refer to them as "sounds in between". I would like to discuss what kind of "kick" makes most powerful kick, and what kind of sound passes (almost) always through mix. I do not talk about beatboxing, I refer exclusively to sounds which are strongly bonded with didgeridoo tube nature. I would like to present in what relations is didgeridoo with other instruments and how can one adapt playing in certain situations. I would also like to include participants' sounds to enrich the palette of sounds to the fullest. BIG topic.

BALKAN AND (even more)COMPLEX RHYTHMS :

Special richness of songs comes from its freedom in rhythm and time signatures.  We deal here with big measures that move song in a good way, and find  the meaning of "groove" in them... We look for new things that rhythms like 7/8 bring us and we learn how to catch the "essence" of grooves like 9/8 or 11/8... We discover how to gain ability to play one rhythm over the other. This is sometimes explained on straight rhythms for simplicity. In conclusion I give you my theory of counting rhythms with examples and practices in didgeridoo language - BIG topic! Singing : Very important aspect of my playing, for me it's making "real" songs- I do not talk here about composing melodies, I just talk about how to sing, how to sing through tube, how to sing to the rhythm, how to sing real and recognizable melodies -this can be either small or very big topic, but there is practice with melodica or piano, and lots of fun! LEVEL 1 - includes basic singing to drone, not to be underestimated, and singing to simple rhythms LEVEL 2 - includes singing and parallel playing, on a bit higher level ....Level 1 or 2 depending upon experience of group.

Open Class :

30 mins max. This is all about 'what you ever wondered about didgeridoo', and you think I might know the answer. Open questions, I have no preparation for this, I just bring myself.

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Please bring your own didgeridoo, if you would like to visit Aboiriginal Arts to buy a high quality Aboriginal instrument, please contact us.
It is recommended that you can play some basic didgeridoo before enrolling on Dubravko's excellent workshops. If you would like to have some one-one didgeridoo tuition beforehand, again please email us below!

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