Love that you point out about leaving space between striking different bowls. About leaving your ego outside too! So important.

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I am pretty sure, if you would share how you feel with your friend, you would get a standard reply "you have a blockage, that's why you don't like how I play the bowl" :)

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Worth trying, but be careful and strike very gently with a SOFT mallet. 10-11" should be good enough. Consider the weight of the bowl.

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Thank you for your note. I'll do my best to get it done.

@Singing Bowls Channel with Guy Beider- I agree. The audio is barely audible, even at full volume. [edit] KZfaq must be playing tricks today. After not getting any volume while trying various devices today, I tried my iPad tonight and the volume is fine. The video and its information is really needed. Great tips for all players out there. Thank you,

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I did it with purpose :) thank you so much for watching it till the end :)

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I know :( . Isn't it ironic, speaking of sound. Unfortunately, I can't get it fixed.

@@singingbowlschannel I learn years ago, that to make people listen, is best to speak quietly, maybe this is your version jajaja, I had to put my earphones, worth every word. Blessings brother.

I am so sorry. Tried to fix this problem but no success. Please put your headphones on. Appreciate your time!

@@singingbowlschannel Thank you for your response..i went back and tried it a few more times..I love your teachings and will look at your other vidoes.

Thank you for watching my other video and your sharp observation.

Thank you for liking some of my ideas and reassuring me about my perfectionism. I don't like perfectionists myself; they can be a pain... There are all kinds of people in the world, and some just don't like others, and that's ok :).

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Thank you for your question. I commented on the post of Bhajan "teaching" the gong a fraud! I am proud of many practitioners, who don't follow his absurd "teachings". Gongs were used for thousands of years before this "guru" started to abuse this instrument with such a rude way of playing. Who the .... is he to call the person that uses a different technique "a prostitute"? Is the goddess of music satisfy with his strikes? Because many adequate people are not satisfied with such a rude sonic tsunami. For the real artist, the gong is an instrument that is able to unveil the subtleties of the sonic beauty. Don't listen to the false "teachings" and explore the gong by yourself!

I also appreciate this question a lot, because there is a playing technique issue spreading over the planet, which is rooted in Yogi Bahjan's school. This place here isn't suitable to explain or discuss that matter properly, but all gong artists I have heard playing, which come from this very lineage of teaching, are sounding terrible. They are doing kind of all wrong, in terms of playing technique, which starts already how they hold the mallet. I have first-hand information, that often gongs stop singing, after being played in that intense way. At videos, I often think the gongs will jump out of their frames every second, they scream for help and the hearing of the audience is in danger of getting damaged. All videos I have seen with Yogi Bahjan playing the gongs are terrible examples for gong playing. His background is the key. He started to play with Asian gongs and they are traditionally banged hard to scare away the ghosts. There were never used to meditate with. Later Bahjan got a symphonic gong and nobody introduced him into the correct playing technique. He didn't have a gong training and just banged it hard like he knew it was right for the Asian gongs. The followers would never question his holiness and therefore we are dealing with an army of really badly trained gong masters. So, technically we know this playing style is destroying the instruments and they need tuning after being played that way. Jens Zygar is for sure one of the most advanced gong artists alive on this planet with a high-grade experience in training people in integral sound work all over the planet. When he plays, the gongs sing and the universe is unfolding. That is gong sound at their best. It is called "the soft manner" style and like playing any other instrument, there is also a perfect way of playing a symphonic gong. The rest is for Jens to write finally his book about the integral sound work and make things clear. Play gentle, play breathing waves, let time pass, use dynamics with great care, listen to what you actually create, feel the instrument, learn to read it's vibrations and when the best moment for the next stroke is. The instrument is talking to you. You just need to learn it's language. It takes patience. A lot of it... Playing the gongs is exciting and we need to control that excitement because if we go with it, we play too loud, too fast, too hectic or simply not good at all. Guy Belder has also a fine set of ears and is super sensitive to the soul of the sound. He feels it as pain, when the sound is getting too harsh. I play crescendos, and I play them with great care and controlled for a very short period, like only for seconds and I never go full-on, because this is only suitable for a heavy metal concert, but not for what we are doing. The gong smashers hurt people! I received already numerous emails from gong victims, who found their way to me asking for help. So, it is not about some sensitive freaks complaining about something. We are highly specialized listeners and we feel the music like we are the music. I feel with Guy and I can say, that I have the same. It is nearly impossible for me to watch any of the available gong videos on youtube. That's how bad the playing quality actually is. Maybe we will have a proper conservatorium one day, based on Jens Zygar's school and train the best sound workers this planet has ever seen. We don't wanna spread bad energy, we try to find a way, that awareness will grow for this and we want you all to understand how important it is because if we play the wrong way, we can actually harm people and it happens, which is unacceptable.

@@GongMaster "It is nearly impossible for me to watch any of the available gong videos on youtube. That's how bad the playing quality actually is." so I fall in that camp ?

Could you please share what exactly is misleading? Thank you.

@@singingbowlschannel Two distinctive aim of sound therapy are the 2 technicalities of practice.. Nidra or/and Milam. Then there are the cymatic elements of producing inter-weaving sounds to enhance the partial frequency propagation. Therefore the technical mistakes you mention are not mistakes but rather a matter of isolated partial. When you play at least 3 bowls that have a common frequency then even the tapping or/and rim-rub scratch (which you commented as annoying/unpleasant) will harmonize with the tonal-base frequency. Info suggested: Cymatics and Audio-physic. 🙏

Thank you for your reply. I am not referring to Nidra yoga, cymatics, or sympathetic response. I am discussing the 15 common mistakes made when playing singing bowls. Are you familiar with the story of the three blind men encountering an elephant?

@@singingbowlschannel 😊 yes. You should mention the aim .. ( without the purpose of action then every technique is a personalize mistake ) and especially dangerous in misleading others by people who happen to have the instruments without knowledge of what is intended for. 😊. You still can be proud of the 30% Anyway.. no further argument needed.

If you say so. Was crystal clear to me and I didn't need to be familiar with Yoga Nidra or Cymatics or the Physics of sound (of which I have some familiarity with all 3) to be able to comprehend his excellent content!

Thank you for the beautiful addition to the content I presented.

It seems like you might be projecting your own negative energy onto him. I don't see what you're pointing out, not even the low volume.

Thank you, it is really ok :) I don't take it personally :)

Yes, people can play the bowls how they wish. This video is for those called to the path of holding space for sacred sound healing for others. What individuals choose to do with their bowls are their business. What practitioners do with the bowls "for" or "to" their audience is what he's trying to remedy here and make the healing spaces a better place for everyone. His energy is humorous and playful to me but it also conveys his deep reverence and respect for the instruments and those walking this path and their responsibilities which are not to be taken lightly. This is one of the best if not the best and most informative video on playing singing bowls correctly that you can find on the internet - and I've watched in the hundreds of them. If I can be so forward as to add to the tips / mistakes, though I saw you were naturally doing it in your video, you didn't explicitly mention it that I could hear at least - When you hold the singing bowl in the palm if you are choosing to not do the fingertip method which I find more difficult to balance - it works even better when bending the fingers and thumb of the palm back towards the ground while balancing the ball which seems to take away some of the contact with the bowl that still often dims/ quiets the vibrations when holding the palm with fingers merely flat. On another note, I am being trained on Paiste gongs by someone who was trained by Yogi Bhajan but doesn't play with the same disrespect or ferocity that show in a lot of Bhajan's vids - especially the awful performance on Jens' gongs - total disrespect for the gongs and Jens - unacceptable. I've also taken kundalini yoga teacher training as taught by Yogi Bhajan lineage - and despite everything awful I've learned about Bhajan as a person, leader, teacher, sound healer, etc the teachings for the most part seem to work and help a lot of people so I will keep offering them though but not in a way that looks at my students (students who the universe brings for me to help elevate / act as an ego-less forklift to) as subservient in any way to the teacher. Thank you for this video and for serving to help this entire practice of sacred sound. - Darren in Vancouver @sonikalkhemy on insta. 🙏

Thank you for your acknowledgement!

Thank you for being open to receiving a different opinion. Nothing is a mistake really but the preferences we make according to what we know or do not know.

Thank you. I am aware of the problem. It won't return with the next video. Appreciate your time.

That would depend on the budget. I sell antique superior quality bowls but they are expansive. bellsofbliss.com/

I am so sorry for the audio not being loud enough. This problem should not happen again with my next videos. Please try with your headphones on. Appreciate your time 🙏

I pack my instruments in a similar way as you do. Instead of buble wrap I use thick scarfs :) Also, check out the "Makita" tool boxes. I added some padding inside and now use the tool boxes for traveling. www.amazon.com/Makita-197212-5-Interlocking-Case-Large/dp/B00ZUKZXQQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=makita+tool+box&qid=1567697592&s=gateway&sprefix=makita+tool+bo&sr=8-4

@@singingbowlschannel It also can work well with cases made for crystal singing bowls. I found I could stack many tibetan/indian bowls of different sizes within a single crystal singing bowl padded case, using bubble wrap and foam to cushion in between layers. Will also check out your Makita link for more options though! Thanks

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My favorite gongs are Chinese bronze Chao gongs. These are no name no brand gongs. I was lucky to play over 60, 44" Chao gongs before I choose my favorite one. There is no consistency in their quality and sound character, therefore you want to play them before purchasing one. A second favorite one is Tone of life 60" Cosmo, but I prefer to put a down payment for a house rather buying one of these. A third favorite one is Cosmo 42" and then 30" Sheemoon and 30" sun. Paiste are good gongs as well but it is all up to you! You may find a cheap Chinese gong that you will love and love is above any rational explanation or a label such as Paiste, Meinl or Tone of life. This is MY OPINION. Also, check out the work of Martin Blase!!! He is a magician!!! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7pon7KKnNrDenk.html

Sorry about that. I did use a good microphone. Something happened while the video was uploaded. It is so strange, but many people say that the audio is great and some complain about it being very quiet.

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