Punching Below The Belt - A(nother) Budget Recording
Channel: Wergiftfresch
Date: 2020-11-22

This is a budget recording. Deep Didgeridoo Punch Practice. 3000x40mm PVC, ZOOM H1.

Lessons:
- my punch is weak (but hey, it's there)
- deep didgeridoo practice is fun!
- if the family is even remotely close when recording, they will end up on the take!

Triggered by sensei Dubravko: https://youtu.be/tKYzkDouJss and an idea I had for a song which I want to play on iglica, but I need punch for that. Not Dubravko, one-punch-man punch, but at least, say, Ivan Drago punch. 

So I was practicing punch on the deep didgeridoo. To make my life easy, I chose to assemble a 3 meter version and just go ahead. So, what is punch? Or what do I call punch? It's a quality of the transient, i.e., the attack of the sound. Deep didgeridoos require being relaxed, loose lips yet widely and thickly touching. Any pressure that ends up stiffening the mouth, lips, cheeks or even shoulders is either wrong or too much. Yet at the same time, we want to compress the air for the attack of the sound.

As droning on the longer didgeridoos is hard in itself already, it often helps to begin the drone with an attack. One easy attack is just a smack of the tongue, so to speak, just pushing a little bubble of air against the closed lips that then let off any resistance and easily vibrate loosely. This bubble of air comes from the mouth with closed throat. Now the interesting transition is to open the throat, and pull the air from the lungs. Oh, and compress it with the whole body, not just the tongue. Oh, and push more air through for a fatter attack, ergo, punch. The problem with all this is that the pressure, and compression of the air, stiffens parts of your body. Practice is required to keep your calm and be able to punch with a deep didge. It's not super hard, but it's not easy. Also, mastering deep punches IS super hard.

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