Norayne Styles's Page

oh, I'm sorry about that ...
the reason in my country (Indonesia) is hard to find as the australian eucalyptus...

I am very happy, can share with you about the didgeridoo....
I hope we can play together
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do you have facebook or other email?

thank you.. nice for you coment..

Hi Norayne! I added your video here all you have to do is to copy the link adresse and on WDN you go to video and paste it hihi!!

Hi, I like your personal approach to the didg playing. Just add the link from Youtube to this site e.g (http://youtu.be/YYrcLBGWNkQ) Look under share on your youtube. 

thanks Norayne, very sound advice as usual,

Hi Mike! I have a blocked nasal passages often and all i do is to force my circular breathing until my nose clear up take about a few minutes, even sometime I wake up with block nasal and i just force myself to play the didgeridoo and it clear up every time. With the nasal spray ounce you start your nose seem to need it all the time after your nose become lazy hihihihi!!

Hi Norayne, nice to hear from you. it's going really well thank you, I'm managing to practice every day (even if it's only for five or ten minutes), I've got one problem though and I believe it's a problem you had when you started judging by one of your comments, that of having difficulty with blocked nasal passages making circular breathing difficult.

I've tried various nasal sprays, my Doctor prescribed me a steroid one but the best relieve so far is to suck an Extra Strong Mint before/during practicing.

but enough about me, how is your playing now? You're rather fortunate to belong to a club, how's that doing?

Hi Norayne!

I don't know why I wasn't seeing the entire comment post previously.  I haven't thought about the video diary.  The diary is a good idea, but it's not a big deal to me right now.  I don't know of a serious didge player even in Texas, so I'm pretty much learning everything online right now.  I've had experience with playing cornet early in grade school (though I stuck with drums and played bass guitar for a while) and sang choir in my senior year in high school, so I understand how important embouchure is as well as developing lung capacity and proper playing.  It'll be a while before I get the hang of it, though.

Today, I practiced my embouchure without the didge (cheeks in) and I was able to breathe outward without breaking the embouchure, on a single breath, for at most near 40 seconds.  Getting my cheap Toca Percussion didge going with a soft drone cut that down to about 15-18 seconds on a single breath.  I have to work on evenness of the drone.  And I have to work on the didge itself if I want to work on the cheeks out embouchure.

Sometimes, I can get circular breathing away from the didge going when the coordination is just right. I can do barks and hum more or less in tune with the drone.  It would be interesting to bend my hum a few cents away from my drone note (C).  I've played around with the vowels.

but right now, I shouldn't even be thinking about that.  Cheeks out and in drones are all I should be thinking about.  Nice to meet you and thank you for the welcome!  Let me get a thread started here!

thanks for the 'add' Norayne.