Making a Didgeridoo (David Hudson)

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14 жыл бұрын

David Hudson demonstrates how to find, cut down and prepare a tree to make a Didgeridoo. He then prepares, paints and presents the final product for performance.
The Didgeridoo is a traditional instrument of the Aboriginal people from Arnhem Land in Northern Australia. It was originally known as a Yirdaki in the traditional language.
Visit David Hudson's website here: www.davidhudson.com.au/
The uploading of this video has been approved by David Hudson.

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@davidhudson4 11 жыл бұрын

G'day or as we say Goorie, Thanks for your comments everyone. Its about time I updated that didge film. I am not as young as I was in that film. I miss my old dog Bungy. Miss ya mate. I wish everyone a great day/night. Happy didgeridooing, David Dahwurr Hudson

@racheallange2056 4 жыл бұрын

When termites are a good thing to have... I am from America (Kentucky) ,but by chance I live in Bavaria,Germany now.. I understand how much you miss your dog..I have lost mine to stroke and 1 to cancer....They were Black lab mixes..One coming from a kill shelter..Which she had been abused and was afraid of everything..and sick as well...(Kennel cough the went into an infection) and under weight.. She got well with antibiotics thankfully,and I worked with her everyday ...The first time I saw her happy she had tore the hell out of my plastic flower pot and was playing with it...I was so happy that I cried..She was an awesome girl..I named her Belle Starr..Years later a severe stroke took her away from me...Broke my heart when she passed ...She was not just a pet she was my best friend.. I have always loved the sound of the Didgeridoo..Thank you for doing this video...

@blvvdsawgekkt2599 4 жыл бұрын

David Hudson legend

@ritiittiii9344 4 жыл бұрын

long time fella love your energy :)))

@darbee1504 4 жыл бұрын

Edgar. Cayce material talks of the 5 root races . His book, Their is a River by Edgar Cayce .............

@darbee1504 4 жыл бұрын

@@racheallange2056 Do Pets go to Heaven. Edgar Cayce material

@vighneshprabhu4242 5 жыл бұрын

*breaks his didgeridoo* David's mum: Where you going? David: To find myself a didge, be right back.

@saywhat236 3 жыл бұрын

These guys really went out there cut a tree down and made an instrument. Fucking amazing

@strikewave1918 4 жыл бұрын

I'm watching this for school.

@ziggyofthenorth 10 жыл бұрын

We have hollow trees here in the US too. Different wood and more likely to be hollowed out by carpenter ants, but after watching this, I think I can make it work. I like the thought of the insects and wood making most of the instrument. It is more special when you create your own instruments from nature. I also watched the video on how to play. Thank you for all the great information.

@garrettgolden1851 5 жыл бұрын

What type of tree?

@timothycurnock9162 5 жыл бұрын

Great instrument if you snore mate.

@rosco3516 5 жыл бұрын

@@garrettgolden1851 im in New England, ants do the same thing here. Most of our wood is pine, oak, maple, birch, hickory. I wish we still had chestnut trees, that would make a sound to behold.

@garrettgolden1851 5 жыл бұрын

@@rosco3516 right on! I have yet to get my hands on a didge (tree) naturally hollowed out, but I make mine out of bamboo and copper.

@garrettgolden1851 5 жыл бұрын

@@rosco3516 so the ants up there hollow out all types of trees?

@shanegrangrad8559 5 жыл бұрын

Look at that Boulder rock they are working near . Fantastic . Looks like a meteor

@kyusshead 4 жыл бұрын

Thinking the same thing!

@franksantiago7519 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you are in fact absolutley right!!! That is the vehicle in which life came to Earth from Mars..... Next thing you know aliens are making didgeridoos Lolz

@smokerofthydookie7379 4 жыл бұрын

@@franksantiago7519 it's probably how the Australians communicate with the aliens 😂

@salaelv9896 3 жыл бұрын

I think the same

@wrightstuffmusic 3 жыл бұрын

That is normal in the outback (Australian bush)

@stefaniedavis5206 6 жыл бұрын

he forgot his hat

@shaunsimmons204 3 жыл бұрын

FINALLY! An Australian tech channel showing an NATIVE Australian doing the thing. MY (nonexistent)God! That is so frikken good.

@redwoods7370 Жыл бұрын

Didgeridoo transports me to another completely timeless dimension.

@adm5618 Жыл бұрын

This was the first instructional video I had on playing and making the didj almost 20 years ago. Dave Hudson is a legend. I was fortunate enough to play in Alice Springs with Andrew Langford who was extremely helpful in helping me develop new vocalisations. Such a simple yet expressive vocal instrument

@Jarno1510 Жыл бұрын

Same here! Bought this on vhs in 1998 or 99 from an Aussie shop in Bruges. About a year later the shop flew Hudson over to give a show and presentation on didge and aboriginal culture. He even signed my didge!

@dusty2774 4 жыл бұрын

so, who was the first person to look at a termite eaten-tree and say to themselves..."this would make a great video on youtube someday? I want to say thank you.

@oscard.lisboa6105 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure this is a ancient aborigione instrument

@xfodude8511 3 жыл бұрын

@@oscard.lisboa6105 whoooosh

@augustusbus5344 Жыл бұрын

Yeah aboriginals have been doing this for thousands of years

@shashankbj3804 10 ай бұрын

I live in India (in the outskirts), i find this is inspiring! I happen to live near lots of eucalyptus trees (Vestiges of plantations from colonial times ; Pretty old them trees ). I will be surveying them tomorrow morning so I can make one for myself! Thank you Samuel Wright for uploading this.. . And my thanks to David, a legend indeed. I will surely be making one just like he suggests at 8:31 (It will be special to me, it will be in his honor and will be a special sight among my instruments given it is such a rare instrument in my country)!

@shonnyNOR 4 жыл бұрын

Top video, charming and insightful!!

@YouWillFindYouInYouTube 4 жыл бұрын

This video is a beaut mate even if its 9 years young thank you for the awesome learning experience

@pvenoob Жыл бұрын

Thank you David Hudson and Samuel Wright! Australia is such a beautiful place with all these beautiful people and things. After stumbling upon this amazing video, I feel like making a didgeridoo out of a local tree here in Kazakhstan even if I'm not sure if we have similarly hollow trees. I'll definitely start looking.

@luvskippy 11 жыл бұрын

Forget about any other upload, this is it !! The best instructional vid for making a didgeri from a real indigenous Aussie, Mr Dave Hudson.

@williamshephard8775 5 жыл бұрын

Great video mate, thanks for sharing 👍

@Ian.Oldmate 3 ай бұрын

Goorie David my mate is from quinkin country as well. You fulla's from up there are pretty gifted Mooks is Duppi warra & a very gifted artist. i had been gifted into making Yidaki & just waving a hand young fulla you keep safe. Love your playing.

@samrivers1815 8 ай бұрын

That rock yall workin by is amazing❤️ not to mention the specific vibrations that come out of the didge❤️ thank you❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍

@seanhaydock6389 10 ай бұрын

Hi Sir David, so i learned to play didgeridoo at an arts fest here in grahamstown south africa, i in about '91 got given a cassette earth heart was it's name, on the other side was a more rural recording, the sounds of didge bees... The sounds of talking about the bees and then just around the fire the gentlemen playing a session, very deep and real... ive hunted Internet to find this cassette recording and still haven't, please please do U have any idea, was the best barefoot type corroboree ive ever listened to... Thank U🙏

@oscarzt1652 Жыл бұрын

this video was so peaceful i almost cried

@thomasmiller9205 11 ай бұрын

Very inspired to paint mine. I’m in the pacific NW. I’ll need to look up what the locals of old used for dyes in this area.

@haamishmcgarry 4 жыл бұрын

I've lived in Australia all my life and this is my first time seeing

@Shrikant_Patil 3 жыл бұрын

Colonist and missionaries have destroyed lot - all over the world and still doing it, covert way

@Towro 5 жыл бұрын

It's a beautiful video!

@MrBellsBlues 3 жыл бұрын

Termites - "Well done everyone, it took a lot of blood, sweat and tears... but we're finished... we've successfully hollowed out this tree... now we can finally start out lives as a great community..." *a wild david hudson approaches* "Eh thiies one weell myke a beauty Oy theenk"

@AndorianBlues Ай бұрын

termites eat wood but they mostly live underground or in mounds. Unlike carpenter ants, which hollow out trees to make their nests but don't eat the wood, as they can't digest it.

@sbove 10 жыл бұрын

Hehheh. This is awesome! Hi David and thanks Samuel for shooting these vids. Shortly after I heard a didge player here in San Francisco for the first time, I found & bought a few of David's early albums (Woolunda and Gunyal) and immediately bought a few real eucalyptus didges from Australia and have been playing ever since ;-) Huge inspiration and thanks!! So nice to see you here!

@safarwisby8073 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant! Thank you for your oh so real Being 🙏🌟🙏

@kabaottoemulsion1869 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! I want to make one!

@NorthTexasEagle1989 Жыл бұрын

This documentary is great 👍

@sarah-annecarney7552 3 жыл бұрын

This is such a science it's wonderful.

@goa5373 Жыл бұрын

beautiful

@timellis5685 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks.

@justinronberg4936 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome fantastic.!

@utah880 6 ай бұрын

Love this video.. and had enormous fun making it with you.. sadly the ‘Dugong’ never got to really star.. 😭

@dokshakata 12 жыл бұрын

much thanks brotha' David for sharing

@westerncondor1132 3 жыл бұрын

that is a really nice shirt dave hudson also didgeridoo is a very interesting instrument

@FredrickLeicht Жыл бұрын

Handy From Taxas! Sounds great!

@michaelhamer1277 Жыл бұрын

g,day mate just bought a cd of yours...orrkney scotland...

@barry7608 6 жыл бұрын

great vid, no bullshit, just love the bush

@goodbyesoberday9 4 жыл бұрын

There’s a very happy good boi at 6:31

@michaelbrewster4114 4 жыл бұрын

Awsum video awsum bush true Australian thanks mate

@219SandPond 11 жыл бұрын

Good job!! Awesome!!

@qte5530 5 жыл бұрын

sweet dig'es dude😏

@fidososa 9 жыл бұрын

Nice work! Thanks!

@darrylbaker4802 10 ай бұрын

Deadly brother ❤️🖤💛

@parfaitelumiere 4 жыл бұрын

That's so great! I Would get the rough tree to make my own didg, I got one very rough decade ago, so ugly, rough bark on bottom, sanded with machine on top, I adzed all of it, from mouth to bell, waxed it, and offered to my sister.

@TheKimberRifleBloke 11 жыл бұрын

Man a didge like that would be at least $500 if baught in a store

@drwierd 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great vid David! I learned the didgeridoo because of it! Cheers!

@knightingalesaid 7 жыл бұрын

That is so amazing!! Thanks for sharing the video.

@JIHOONJIHOONILY 2 жыл бұрын

here idk if we have hollow trees {very well painted

@schwenk929 Жыл бұрын

Just a silly observation here but what geologic process put that massive rock there? It seems like a glacial erratic but I can't imagine that area of the world saw a glacier since its address was Pangaea .

@1g367 4 жыл бұрын

awsome

@angeliquebenham9795 4 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one here who thinks he's gorgeous!

@gemshaw3470 4 жыл бұрын

Nope. He is really handsome.

@hornets599 11 жыл бұрын

the best video on the construction of the didgeridoo, thank you !

@deanainsworth1757 5 жыл бұрын

I would have loved to see the didg painted without the paintbrush. Mainly curious to see how it would have been done.

@otterpupp 3 жыл бұрын

not sure but I would guess there is a way to make a paintbrush out of bush materials, like bristles from a reed plant or animal hair?

@fullmoviesmate6100 3 жыл бұрын

@@otterpupp we use wattles for brushes. Looks awesome

@vanessacox3636 5 жыл бұрын

I miss Home!!!

@MatthiasBalling 15 күн бұрын

very good informative video keepin me motivated to Connect more with my Didge, thanks

@hunter11000 10 жыл бұрын

Good video

@ecute13 12 жыл бұрын

Great work mate.

@LiamGardner-qr9ot 2 ай бұрын

thank you

@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 Жыл бұрын

when were digeridoos introduced to cape york?

@simplyimpish1055 4 жыл бұрын

Wait! Arn’t you suppose to ask for permission from the tree? But just fascinating and beautiful

@jpjay1584 2 жыл бұрын

only if its alive

@ThatTaRaGiRL 11 ай бұрын

Um... is it ever going to say no?

@sbove 10 жыл бұрын

"This one here...come back in a couple of weeks and she'll be a nice old ripe didegidoo!" Hehheh. ;-)

@morgansparrow9887 6 жыл бұрын

later on he says " there's one over here that's already been eaten out." I wouldn't have laughed so hard had i not read you comment lol.

@WASP79 5 жыл бұрын

And this Gentleman, is why I date older women ...

@tyrozone5 5 жыл бұрын

How do you know that the tree is hollow by hitting it? Pitch changes?

@zaydm1472 5 жыл бұрын

If echoes inside. Sort of like a watermelon, the ones that are ready and have juice in them will make a louder and more echoed sound.

@isaakol 10 жыл бұрын

can you make this with any type of tree?

@a.r.moyapapitawaira7369 6 жыл бұрын

buen documento

@ScenicFlyer4 Жыл бұрын

3:27 bro died in a lego game

@factisstrangerthanfiction4098 Жыл бұрын

People are missing the point of the creation and purpose of the didgeridoo. It's all about the omm frequency., if it's not please explain ?

@stevethea5250 Жыл бұрын

Imagine the first aboriginal that cut the tree found it was hollow then tried blowing air through it

@musicfortripping5843 3 жыл бұрын

That looks like a meteor they are standing next to

@SimSetSoPalestine 2 жыл бұрын

❤

@rockybalboa5859 8 жыл бұрын

That rock was huge

@connor-dg6wc 5 жыл бұрын

he gotta look out for the quinkins

@marleeselby1598 2 жыл бұрын

Wanjoo my friends which means “welcome my friends”

@sonjavoigt9363 2 ай бұрын

❤ ganz viel Liebe 😊

@jnevins2486 9 жыл бұрын

Didgeridoo's are COOL !!

@plandl1 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if circular breathing is therapeutic for emphysema?

@ZOMGtheykilledkenny 9 жыл бұрын

It's that easy??? I was gonna buy another one, but Im definitely making my own now Thanks for the information!

@awesomefn1243 4 жыл бұрын

Russel Wilson?

@geeetube1 6 жыл бұрын

maaaaaaan... you didnt play it at the end :(

@ramentaco9179 5 жыл бұрын

geeetube Look up "how to play a didgeridoo" and you'll find a video of him playing.

@geeetube1 5 жыл бұрын

thanks boss i did... and the video that came up was him playing this one he just made... sweeeeeeeeet..... just what i was after :)

@DingaLingu 2 жыл бұрын

This is what id call a sort of productive deforestation, as i imagine a hollow tree burns much hotter and more readily than a non hollowed tree.

@bokimon7 9 жыл бұрын

that rock in the middle of eucaliptus forest...strange place..and nice too

@greathornedowl1783 2 жыл бұрын

During the ice ages rocks were deposited all over the place by glaciers. That rock could be from one of the first ice ages 100s of millions of years ago

@birdmanbl 9 жыл бұрын

this is so beautiful wow what a cool video

@lukeleidiger2126 4 жыл бұрын

What does he use for paint? at 8:00. He says something I don't understand.

@vmanofdeath 4 жыл бұрын

Ochre. Natural clay pigment.

@hovienko 3 жыл бұрын

can i find suitable wood in europe?

@BaddaBigBoom 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but you have to hollow it yourself :-) I recommend an angle grinder with an Arbortech attached.

@ohmbettafish323 4 жыл бұрын

Damn, one of my friends went over to Australia a year or so back. I should have asked her if she could get me a few of those hollowed out trees. I know there's small hollowed out trees where I'm at, but I want an authentic Australian hollowed out tree to fix up like Dave did.

@missumenimsatanass 4 жыл бұрын

this made me fart....I DIDNT WANT TO FART!!!

@rangovanlife 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting docu cause before I decide to buy one I want information about the history and traditions.

@_munns.1544 4 жыл бұрын

We’re they filming on a meteor

@Owen741. 4 жыл бұрын

Looked like it lol

@roddyconnor6763 9 жыл бұрын

another great vid from the didgeridude

@liviawash2609 7 жыл бұрын

Didgeridoo^**

@roddyconnor6763 7 жыл бұрын

nah, he plays the didgeridoo, he is the didgeridude

@liviawash2609 7 жыл бұрын

lmao

@danielp242 3 жыл бұрын

how does he makes the colors?

@imawatchengyu6297 Жыл бұрын

Ochre. They're natural colors. Red, yellow, black. Add water, and a he said, the iron oxide in the stones he used to crush and mix the ochres help it last longer. You can buy them online if you want. All paints come from natural pigments. Some are poisonous (painters and their assistants went crazy and/or died from mixing them). The ochres aren't.

@lajoszsivkov1334 10 ай бұрын

A hangyàk csinàljàk a didgerit.kiràgjàk a belsejét, és ennyi a hasznàlata utàn ott kell HAGYNI ahol talàltad.de egy kis történeti àttekintést Is adhatna.

@qte5530 5 жыл бұрын

seek nothing less then truth

@qte5530 5 жыл бұрын

my I come come play

@RickarooCarew Жыл бұрын

so... I've been practicing with my bioplastic on cardboard... one meter of didge... like a soprano kinda my cats love it.. the dogs next door love it.. my dog.. no worries.. does his famous dead dog imitation... sleeps through anything except dinner

@RickarooCarew Жыл бұрын

Walk in Beauty brother... this day... and every day ✌️

@RickarooCarew Жыл бұрын

the bioplastic comes from bamboo... and I add a white volcanic ash.. like mullock heaps at an opal mine.. it has palladium in it... makes the stuff ring like a bell with that extra ingredient all musical instruments need ❤️

@gulllll 4 жыл бұрын

my fucking teacher made me watch this when we studied australia

@BaddaBigBoom 3 жыл бұрын

GOOD! ...you needed it :-)

@mossmyd8378 5 жыл бұрын

How do you find a hollow tree

@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff 5 жыл бұрын

He literally JUST showed you.

@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff 5 жыл бұрын

He literally JUST showed you.

@greathornedowl1783 2 жыл бұрын

Live in Australia for starters and go around knocking on baby Eucalyptus trees

@Steveoqotsa 6 жыл бұрын

Would I be right in thinking because these are made from natural branches or stems,no two didgeridoos sound the same?? I'm kind of keen of trying one out,is there a certain kind I should look for or avoid,ie tourist versions??How much should you spend for one that would give you that sound if you practiced enough??

@dexii1144 4 жыл бұрын

but when

@qte5530 5 жыл бұрын

Seek noting less then truth😏

@qte5530 5 жыл бұрын

tap the didge