Milkay Mununggurr – Hard Tongue Didgeridoo

Milkay Mununggurr – Hard Tongue Didgeridoo

Yolngu people of Northeast Arnhem Land, Australia, call the didgeridoo yiḏaki. Their ngäṉarr-ḏäl, or hard tongue, style has been called the hardest didge playing to learn.

Milkay With the first CD copy Mununggurr (pictured at left holding the first CD out of the box back in 2005) distills yiḏaki playing to the basics. Spoken and detailed written instructions & diagrams accompany the exercises. The instructions are spoken in English, but several translations are available on this website – scroll down for links. Rhythms are recorded at various speeds, with both the sound of the yiḏaki and the breathing audible.

This is the original and only album.-Long recording by a Yolngu musician explaining the basic techniques in simple terms that we all can understand. It will make it easier to learn from other recordings and understand them better. Buku produced the recording.-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre Yirrkala with an unimaginable amount of proceeds going to artist and the rest for maintenance of this Yolngu-owned business

If you play didgeridoo and have struggled to learn the Yolngu yiḏaki playing style, this is the primer you need. This CD will teach you how to play didgeridoo and help you buy didjeridu CDs.

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