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Who is the best player in the world ?

I don't think there is a answer to this question - but me and my friends sometimes talk about it.

Søren Dahl

An impossible question to answer, Soren, as there is no true standard for excellence in the arts!

It depends a million things - the most important is personal preference. I happen to like Wiggy-waggy style, so for me Phil Jackson is one of the best... he is not a trad player though. The trad aspect of didgeridu is limited to us anyway - none of us (with the exception of a very small number) will ever see didgeridu (Yidaki or mago) played in ceremony.

Wallace from Jamiroqui was a hell of a player.

I can sing 'Loser' by Beck into a didge - it soiunds cool, but it is not 'proper'...

Soren, old man, you're asking hard questions

Thank you very much for you answers.

Hi hi Danyu, i'm not that old - just 29

The whole reason why I started to play the digeridoo was after I heard Mark Atkins "City circle" on the album "Rhythms from the outer core" To me he is one of the best player in the world. I would like to play like he do - but I know it might fail - but I'll try the rest of my life to become as good as he is - he is really a person to look up to if you ask me.

After I heard Larry Winiwini on youtube I found Guan and this great forum - and I'm very happy that I did. I don't know about any of us on this forum ever will be able to play like Mr. Winiwini - but I know that there is more then just me who would like to be able to do it

To play the didgeridoo is a journey - and what a journey - i love it!!!!!


Wallace from Jamiroqui was a hell of a player. WAS? - is he dead ???

Søren Dahl

OK, that's it, I confess, I AM THE best player in the world - I know, it's hard to believe but it is true. I am as old as dirt itself and I taught everyone - I am the original Master Blaster !! There was a time when I swore I would never "come out" but a recent spate of posts has prompted me to unveil my guise and expose to the world what you probably all always suspected. So there, it's done now - you can all bow and take the credit for suspecting I was the one - cos' you were right.
: )

PS: Nope, I'm not joking.

: )

Hi Peter,
nice one

cheers and welcome aboqrd Soren
you are on the right track having discovered IDIDJ.

Mahir

Don't know about this "best" thing, but my personal favourites at the moment are Adam Marrilaga and Dha:pan Yunupingu.

If one was to put together a "best" list, it would have to take into consideration the players':

1) technical mastery;

2) compositional ability;

Technique to me is what it is all about, which is why I find traditional players the most exciting and most intriguing.

Guan

Thank you for you answers.

Hi hi - Cool Peter Nice to hear that people belive them self

Mahir, thank for your welcome - yes I also belive this is the forum that will put me up beside Peter - one day, if I pratice enouge

Guan - it was a very wise way to bescribe what is best. I also think traditional players do the most job, but for me, as a new didgeirdoo player, I find it very hard to understand, because of the rhythms - but it sounds sooooooooooooooo cool! But I hope to understand it one day - my new CD's will help me to understand more I think - and perhaps I can "steal" some of the technics and use it in my own playing and do it more interesting.

(I wich I was better at writing english, but I'm not - really hope you understand me )

Søren Dahl

Greetings Søren,
great to see people looking in this direction when wanting to know more about
didgeridoo.

Best, is an extremely qualitative attribute, and the response you will get from a dedicated player,
a musician, or the man on the street will be completely different - and often contradictory.

I tend to agree with Guan on this,
technical mastery and dexterity and
musical expressivity are the big points.

The greatest technical mastery, to listen to and to study, you will
find here.

All the best on your didge travels
Martin

Hello Martin

Thank you for your answer. I'm very happy that I found this place. The best thing that has happend in the time I had played the didgeridoo, and far the best didgeridoo forum on the internet I think.

I want to be good at music, therefore has I begin to study the way rhythms work - I want to be a good didgeridoo player - therefore I play everyday. I want to be good technical at play the didgeridoo - therefore I listen to what you people on this forum has to say. After just one week on this forum, I have learned twis as much as I have in 10 months or at least it feels like that.

Søren Dahl

Definitely agree with you, Guan! A masterful understanding and command of technique is most certainly something that traditional players have, which translates into rhythmic brilliance.

Jason

Surely one should also have a large repertoire and be competent beyond their own groups knowledge of song ??

Ihhhhhhhhh - I'll never become a didg master - me singing - NO WAY !!!!

Søren Dahl

I think you know what I mean but just in case I wasn't totally clear, I mean a large repertoire of rhythms appropriate to specific songs and ceremonies and the accompanying choreography.

hooroo,

Hello Peter

I understand, to become a real didgeridoo master it takes lots more then just to be abel to play the didgeridoo in the right way. I'll never be abel to do any of the thing that you mention, the only thing that I can do in my life, is to imitate and intertain my people here in Denmark - which is quit easy because they don't understand anything about what I do when I play. It does't matter that much for me that they don't understand it, but what matters to me, I that what I tell them when I go out and play for a larger groupe of people, is that what I tell, and for me it matters that it is true what I'm telling them. If I f.x. tell them about the aboriginals it must be the correct information I give - that matters to me. This forum can give me that information, and thats make me very happy.

I play the way we play tunes here in Europa. It is much easyer for people to understand and have joy out of the music, just for the intertainment - but I want to learn and imitate the traditionel way the didgeridoo is/was played - but thats will take long time before I can do that - and that is a importen part and of my "didgeridoo travel"

Søren Dahl