I recently had the opportunity to go through Jonny Cope’s Didgeridoo courses. I’ve had my didgeridoo on my wall for years before actually learning to play it.
With the help of this course available on Udemy, I was able to learn the essential techniques of the didgeridoo in a month’s time. I thought it was a great course and it’s well organized.
Jonny Cope’s Intermediate Course
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Jonny teaches you in-depth how to master circular breathing.
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Jonny walks you through all the techniques step by step so you don’t have to waste time searching every YouTube video.
Your search all over the internet from a hundred teachers ends here.
Jonny’s course covers the basics and the advanced techniques so you can rocket forward in your didgeridoo playing.
Learn how to play the Didgeridoo even if you aren’t a musician
This course works for experienced musicians and those who have never played any instrument alike.
What’s In The Course
The beginner didgeridoo course covers the very basics to playing the jaw harp.
At first I wanted to skip all of the very basics because I thought I knew it all, but I’m glad I didn’t because Jonny brought up some invaluable safety tips and basic techniques that I had gotten wrong from the start.
This course helps build you on a solid and safe foundation for playing the jaw harp.
After that, the course goes through how to make all the possible sounds on the jaw harp, as well as touches on more advanced techniques on how to form different sounds so you can play melodies and rhythms.
Jonny Cope holds back a little bit of the special sauce for his intermediate course, which is also available on Udemy here:
Jonny Cope’s Intermediate Course
So, to summarize, here’s a very brief summary of what’s in the beginner course:
- Basics on how to create a basic embouchure
- Breathing techniques including circular breathing.
- How to make and sustain a drone indefinitely
- How to make rhythms and use your diaphragm to make extremely punchy music
I enjoyed the course! Hope you enjoy it as well. I’ll put both here for convenience as well. These are all affiliate links to Udemy.
The Intermediate course has some excellent material as well:
- Brings you up to speed if you already have some basic didgeridoo capability
- Teaches you advanced rhythms
- Teaches you advanced diaphragm control
- Jonny shows you how to do growls and yells, singing, harmonics, and other advanced didgeridoo techniques