Note: First of all, I would like to thank the Aboriginal Australians for sharing the didgeridoo, a cultural symbol, and for helping spread knowledge of it throughout the world. Without them, you wouldn’t be reading this.

At present, the didgeridoo is still a little recognized and poorly understood instrument, it being all too often considered an instrument of limited musicality.

One can quickly understand the incomprehension of the neophytes. What should they think of a simple wooden tube without pistons or any holes that produces only a single, albeit rather exotic, note often mixed with other strange sound effects!

But experience has shown me that this idea very often comes from a lack of knowledge of the instrument. Indeed, members of the audience often come up to me after a concert and say: “I didn’t know that you could make so many different sounds with a didgeridoo!” or “It’s crazy! At times, I had the impression of several people playing!”

I am deeply convinced that a better mastery of playing techniques can greatly improve the creativity and musicality of didgeridoo players.

It’s sad to say: having dedicated my life to the didgeridoo, I often get bored listening to it!

Far be it from me to accuse the players! After all, the information needed to progress on the didgeridoo is rather hard to come by.

Of course, you can find tutorials on Youtube. However, the contemporary style of didgeridoo playing having developed only recently, those explanations can sometimes lack clarity and particularly a structured pedagogy.

It’s difficult to progress under such conditions, and how can we get answers to all the questions that we ask ourselves when we start:

• Which didgeridoo should I choose to start?
• How to play my first sound?
• How to (finally) learn this circular breathing?
• How to achieve a clear and precise sound
• Once the circular breathing has been mastered, how can I develop speed and rhythm?

At this point you are lost, and that is normal.

If you want to learn to play the didgeridoo, whether for the musical aspect, meditation, sound massage or to reduce your sleep apnea, you need structured and progressive support.

And I can assure you, without that, you’ll likely give up soon… …

That’s why I created Wakademy: to give you access to clear, precise, and progressive lessons.

But I want to be honest about this: I’m not going to teach you the common cookie-cutter phrases. Forget the recipes! I want you to have a more global understanding of the didgeridoo.

Then you’ll be able to:

• Understand perfectly (usually better than players who have been playing for 20 years!) the mechanism of circular breathing (being able to blow continuously) in order to finally master it
• Feel that the rhythm depends entirely on your breath
• Develop self awareness by combining intuition and analysis
• Play your own style and express who you are

This last point is particularly important to me, and I think I can modestly point out my particular specialty as a teacher is to guide you on your own discovery of the didgeridoo.

At Wakademy, I will help you develop your own musical speech. .

Never forget that only you can express what you have to say.

In a world that demands ever more from us each day, it is high time to spend a few moments to breathe and express what you have to share

And my dearest wish is to help you achieve it. ⭐️

Enjoy your visit to Wakademy!