USING THE VOCALS

A huge component of didging is the use of the vocal chords.  Most humans can sing in a 2-3 octave range... that's up to 30 musical notes!

To achieve this consider the following:
- your vocal chords are SEPARATE from your lips, so there is no reason that you shouldn't be able to use them WHILE you drone.

Without droning, give a healthy hoot and holler into your didge (Tree Weaver is not responsible for irritated housemates and/or neighbors)

Next do the exact same thing while you drone.

If you cannot do this DON'T worry...  try to get any grunt or gurgle into the didge while you are droning.   You will quickly realize how easy it is to combine droning with vocals.

Try this:

While droning sing the entire range that your voice is capable of... start as low as you can and slowly build up the pitch of your voice until you are shattering your mom's fine crystal wine glasses.

With practice you will notice that over this range the quality of the sound differs.  Actually with each didge you can achieve different HARMONICS.

A harmonic occurs when the note of your voice perfectly matches the note of the didge, and a very pure sound is created that will amplify upon itself.  This is a very powerful playing technique, especially for sound therapy purposes.

While practicing your singing RANGE, you'll notice that there is a waver in the sound at most points (sounds like a car engine)... this means that your voice is out of harmony with the didge.  This is not a bad thing as the waver can be creatively used to make beats and rhythms.
As you experiment with your range, you'll notice that at certain points (1 deep, one mid, and one high) of your range, the waver disappears - here you have enter the harmonic zone.  

Practice this and you will quickly become a didge master.