It Is Time for a Change

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  • @MichaellCMusic
    @MichaellCMusic 3 роки тому +1

    David dear friend, I've bought a pvc travel Didg 3 days ago by "accident when coming a cross one and fell inlove with it in frist hear (even compared to the wooden ones they had) and right away undersood I need to learn the holy "cycel pressure"😉.
    Came to UA-cam, found you, again fell in love🙌, and the day after already managed to pull up some.
    Now 3 days after starting to really get te hand out of it.
    I've found a technique for me which worked like charm right away:
    Playing the Didg already with chicks flaped relax and filled up with air and it gets so easy to get it then you can easily play with filling the chicks with air and playing without it.
    After sharing this idea,
    I got to say that lot's of the love I get from my brand new life partner (the "Didg" haha)
    Is thanks to you David even through the video and screen I can feel the goodness pouring out of you man and that's precious ♥️.
    I'm going through hard times for so long in life and the didg with you as a guid is a one unique combination of frineds that after only 3 days are helping me in ways I can't even explain, peace, health, mind and soul, right here.
    Thank you brother for all the goodness you provide.🌷
    P.s It seems like im my country there's not much didg couture so who knows maybe we'll bring some while sending the love to the Aborigines🙏🙌.
    Lots of love from Israel.♥️

  • @amazonia8393
    @amazonia8393 4 роки тому +5

    Your on the right track David. Really really good idea, i'm sure the aboriginal community in Oz will be souly, deeply grateful for what you would like to do. I think many people would love to get onto your idea and support. Your right! 1 dollar for every person belonging to the facebook didg group is 4000 dollars, that's phenomenal! Lets get started! :)

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому

      Thanks for the support!

    • @Badger_in_a_shed
      @Badger_in_a_shed 4 роки тому

      I would donate a dollar a few times a year because 4000 people donating once every second month that’s a lot of money that would help and keep up the good work :)

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому +1

      @@Badger_in_a_shed I agree! Thank you for your good intentions!

  • @stevedotg3965
    @stevedotg3965 4 роки тому +1

    You are taking a step in the right direction. For myself: While I will never be able to play the didjeridu as an aborigine would, I have chosen to support the aboriginal community by only buying and playing didjeridus that are wholly aboriginal. Also by supporting one tribe by buying didjeridus from them directly through their one approved seller. Seller has been giving me lessons remotely. Since the Covid pandemic began I have arranged to buy one or more per month for my personal use thus providing a reliable revenue source for the tribe. The elders have noticed and call me their "brother in Los Angeles". Only buy aboriginal products. Do not support non-aboriginal who steal and sell their heritage.

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  3 роки тому +1

      Thanks for sharing your own approach to practicing allyship and showing your support. We all need to find our own ways, but we can also help each other by sharing our personal journeys. Thank you!

  • @cardinalflower6959
    @cardinalflower6959 4 роки тому

    Wow! Beautifully expressed! Good on you--I couldn't agree more!

  • @jaisonhollis7105
    @jaisonhollis7105 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks for your light. Thanks for what you do 🙏

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  3 роки тому

      And I appreciate that kind comment!

  • @The_Dutch_Samurai
    @The_Dutch_Samurai Рік тому

    We must pay respect to all indigenous instruments and all indigenous cultures and indigenous people around the world. Love from the Netherlands

  • @mikeyakey8315
    @mikeyakey8315 4 роки тому +1

    I truly respect your point of view. In my opinion, to pick up, learn to play and love an aboriginal instrument and to share that with the world in itself expresses a deep respect for those people and their heritage. When I decided to buy a didgeridoo back in 2007 (and sadly never went very far with it because I was impatient, but have just decided to get truly serious about it and pulled it out again) I made sure that it was one that was made by an aboriginal Australian family (Naiuwa) and not one of the ones made by counterfeiters who steal the trees and flood the markets. BTW do you know Shane Philip? He lives on Quadra Island and I never missed a performance when he came to Calgary.

  • @coltbrewer4836
    @coltbrewer4836 4 роки тому

    Love your videos they are really helping me grasp concepts on the didgeridoo! I think your heart is the right place by the way! Have a great day one love.

  • @julenjulien6162
    @julenjulien6162 3 роки тому

    Hi David !
    How is the experience going after 11 months ?

  • @petermarshall7882
    @petermarshall7882 4 роки тому +1

    David, trying for 3rd time to get this message through. Through a friend, I am in touch with Aboriginal Elder, Aunty Jean in Brisbane. Jean oversees various projects so I will try and put her in touch with you.

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому

      Thanks for your persistence! I look forward to getting in touch!

    • @petermarshall7882
      @petermarshall7882 4 роки тому

      @@Breathwood David, Re the Comms Tech I just followed my nose on Breathwood and Patreon to send message about Aunty Jean and raise my subs to support you. Will try again today. Have attempted to contact the Quandamooka mob, based mainly on beautiful Stradbroke Is and will persist til contact is made. If you Google Quandamooka festival a fair amount is available. I'm extremely busy, but if what you statred gains momentum it will be my main project as currently I'm not in workforce. Re didge I'm hoping you'll become my contemporary teacher and I'll get a local indigenous teacher. That's my wish anyway. Encouraging my 32 year old musically talented son to learn from you as well. Will be in touch.

  • @calexiou69
    @calexiou69 4 роки тому +1

    Very nicely said. Great idea and respect to you for sharing your earnings especially in these difficult times.

  • @Pfinston
    @Pfinston 4 роки тому +1

    I am sorry you feel guilty for mastering a difficult instrument from a culture few have experienced. You underestimate the impact you have on your students and the aboriginal people for celebrating their instrument and you likely live on a minimal income to do this. (Musicians typically do live on minimal incomes.) You make a tremendous contribution to the aboriginal people by teaching an approach that other white, brown, black and teal people can learn and enjoy. (Teal is my favorite color. But you should meet these special teal people who choose to remain hidden from the White Woke.). What you already do elevates these people in our collective unconscious. This is something you should feel good about, not guilt. I realize the indigenous people of our Coast Cultures here have a passion for guilt when it comes to anyone but themselves. One must feel and publicly announce guilt or be shunned as a moral barbarian. They are the ones who should be reflecting, not you. Perhaps they need to live in the Outback and teach the indigenous people the violin.

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому

      I'm not sure how you concluded I feel guilty. I don't. I simply am positioned in society in a place that allows me to look across the ocean toward the Indigenous people there and care that they face massive oppression, and I happen to play an instrument from their culture, so I'd like to give back.

  • @azmiherawan6510
    @azmiherawan6510 3 роки тому

    Im not gonna get into the horrible things that the monarchy and church did and are maybe still doing to tribal peoples throughout the world, but id just like to say as far as cultural misappropriation, they indeed are benefiting from electricity, cars, medicines,pants etc etc. And i dont think a tribal person would feel bad about playing the guitar or another musical instrument that they didnt invent.
    Just my 2 cents.
    Btw i dont like using the term indigenous or aboriginal because they are misnomers, they dont originate there as another species distinct from humanity, we are all humans and we all come from the same source.

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  3 роки тому +1

      If you delve into the meaning of "indigenous," it actually has as much to do with connection to the natural world as it might about splitting hairs about who came first and from where. I'm most at home here on the west coast of Canada even though my family further back is from Europe. If I stay long enough, and learn to be in connection with the land, perhaps my children and their children and their children will become naturalized, which is a step toward indigeneity. Most people in general have lost their connection to land and spirit anyway, so the threads of indigeneity are now rather thin. And having said all that, why NOT simply allow that some humans have a much longer, deeper connection to particular places than those who have dispersed elsewhere? Why not give them that?
      When it comes to such people benefitting from things like guitars and pants, that will always be the argument of those in power. "We gave them running water. Why do they complain?" But when an entire way of living has been or is being lost as a result of the system, and entire groups of people lack fair representation within it, no amount of modern belongings will do anything to change such massive difference in power. In fact, those in power, or with more privilege, can say, "They have running water, pants, and guitars" and leave it at that. Meanwhile, people like me can carry on teaching and benefitting from being a more accepted part of the system while they continue to struggle. This doesn't seem fair to me in the least.

    • @azmiherawan6510
      @azmiherawan6510 3 роки тому

      @Breathwood you cant have a society with two classes of people based on race, racism is not the answer to racism. And a person born to a family that has been here for argueably thousands of years does not have a deeper connection to the land than somone who comes from a family that has lived here for multiple generations. There needs to be unity. Not division and divisive labels and laws. I live amongst the nuu chah nulth, have my whole life yet they can fish and hunt in ways i cannot, im not more privileged than them, quite the opposite is true. They can gill net rivers off with powerboats (they didnt have nets or powerboats before) while european freinds of mine have gone to prison for having too many hooks on their fishing line and catching a couple too many fish. Anyways what im saying is we are all human being and should be treated equally and we are mutually benefitting to various degrees. This reminds me of the cowichan sweater debacle where cowichan tribes are saying white people dont have a right to make sweaters that resemble the sweaters made by cowichan peoples even though they were taught to knit and the patterns by an irish woman.... people need to stop being so sensitive about cultural misappropriation because its rediculous we are all human and live on this planet together and need to get along. Unless you believe we shouldnt be here and should “go back” to europe? And no you will never be accepted as the same as them because you dont belong to their tribe. my kids are half indonesian and look as native as alot of them but will never have the same rights. I have a white cousin that looks whiter than me but he has native status because one of his ancestors was native. Anyways the whole thing is absurd and we need to stop dividing people based on what tribe there ancestors came from cause we all have to love here and get along. Noone is indigenous and we are all humans comming from somewhere else, tribals peoples from asia, us from europe but eventually all of us from as far as we know right now africa.

    • @azmiherawan6510
      @azmiherawan6510 3 роки тому +1

      Sorry for the rant but im going to learn digeridoo from your videos to benefit myself. And i dont feel bad about that in anyway (and neither should you) just as a tribal person wont have a problem shooting an orca from a speed boat with a 50 caliber rifle. Lol

  • @mediabear
    @mediabear Рік тому

    This is your silliest video.

  • @BruceCarroll
    @BruceCarroll 4 роки тому +2

    There is nothing wrong with respect. I applaud you.

    • @BruceCarroll
      @BruceCarroll 4 роки тому

      Is your comment respectful?

    • @BruceCarroll
      @BruceCarroll 4 роки тому

      More to the point, was your intent respectful?

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому

      Appreciate it!

  • @romanroman4731
    @romanroman4731 4 роки тому +1

    Noble of you... Thank you.

  • @wayneguinan2968
    @wayneguinan2968 4 роки тому +1

    Hi David. I’m a wadjela man living on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja in the south of Western Australia. I also play the didgeridoo or yidaki & am privileged enough to have been able to play, with blessing from the traditional owners, on a lot of country in this huge wonderful state. I have been asked to play on a friends podcast & was offered payment to do so if it began generating income. I explained to them I couldn’t take payment as it would be inappropriate, however if he started generating an income I would like a portion of it donated to Aboriginal causes. As I live on Noongar Boodja I will probably request any monies be donated to a Noongar cause. It is the 100% correct thing for you to do & thank you for helping to raise awareness.

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому

      Thank you so much for sharing this! Unfortunately, I started making a large part of my living from this, so I need to find other work. I will start by sending a small percentage of what I earn, and then increase this toward 100% once I have different work. I respect what you are doing!

  • @insanity54
    @insanity54 4 роки тому +1

    Can of worms, yep.
    People may judge, but thankfully the didge does not.
    Anyway, I trust you to figure it out for yourself!

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому +1

      I figured the judgement would roll in pretty fast.... so far it isn't too intense. And truth - the didgeridoo, thankfull, just seems to be happy to be played.

  • @sallycobb5221
    @sallycobb5221 4 роки тому

    Hi David and thank you. I bought my didge in Australia 10 years ago and have been able to play the drone and a few harmonics since then. During lockdown I decided I would use my time to learn circular breathing which I achieved to a reasonable standard a few weeks ago. Now I am looking for further instructional videos and discovered Breathwood a few days ago, so I will be following your videos. Keep up the good work!

  • @mikoajszkutnik9446
    @mikoajszkutnik9446 4 роки тому

    very well said, keep it up dude, dont listen to the trashtalkers out here. greetings from poland, thanks for your tutorials :)

  • @2CanChewBoo
    @2CanChewBoo 4 роки тому

    I do understand what you doing and I think you should continue if you want to continue but I don't feel like you have to sure there's people in worse situations that could be in your situation I personally think everything happens for a reason but still good on you for doing this

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому +1

      Thanks for that. I guess I see it as an energy exchange. I've taken something. I earn from it. Now I'm paying it back, I guess.

  • @willhenry1753
    @willhenry1753 4 роки тому

    I thought about this for awhile and feel, yes feel, that I or we didn't appropriate any thing. We were given the gift of music and the didge for meditation and dancing and joy. Perhaps when you start playing you need to send honor, love, and thanks for that gift. To demand that we must pay for the gift is to dishonor the gift.

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому +1

      No one has demanded anything. It's simply what I feel is right for me, and something I'll invite others to join me in. But no demands.

    • @willhenry1753
      @willhenry1753 4 роки тому

      Sorry David I didn't mean to imply that you were demanding anything...poor choice of words

    • @willhenry1753
      @willhenry1753 4 роки тому

      I think I am trying to say that it is a gift of joy from the elders, we but need to accept and honor that gift

  • @2CanChewBoo
    @2CanChewBoo 4 роки тому

    Just like you said if everybody did what they could there be a lot less of an issue

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому

      That's how I feel. The first step is awareness and education.

  • @flexibartr
    @flexibartr 4 роки тому

    So non-Europeans shall stop using violins without sharing back? Like all those harmoniums and violins in the music of India. How do you know that the Yidaki wasn't of European heritage too? How do you think the horn and trumpet have been invented?

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  3 роки тому

      You're pointing toward the tendency of humans to adapt each other's innovations. This is unavoidable for sure.
      Europe certainly has a tradition of ancient horns, like the birch horn, to name one example. Metal horns can be traced to all kinds of places ranging from Egypt to Europe to China. I'm sure all of the cultures across those areas influenced each other. The fact that it's so widespread is one reason we don't point to a single group of people and say: "they created this and we should honour them for it." But then you have Australia which is separated from that entire region by an ocean. Any early people there certainly had a chance to develop traditions separate from people on the other continents. Also, I know the yidaki isn't of European origin because termite hollowed eucalytpus doesn't exist in Europe.
      Another the difference is that with the yidaki, Indigenous people who still use it in ceremony are around and active today, and the system really disadvantages them. There are those of us with a lot of comparative privilege who, at the very least, could give back as a way of saying thank you. That's the least we could do: recognize them, say thank you, give back if possible, and even leave it at that. Instead... I don't know. People are resistant even to that, which I just don't get.
      You mentioned the violin, but that wasn't an Indigenous instrument used in traditional ceremonies. It's the sort of example that actually confuses the issue and distracts from the fact that real Indigenous people who are alive today could use some recognition. That's it.

    • @flexibartr
      @flexibartr 3 роки тому

      @@Breathwood What I personally do as a form of respect is leaving the perhaps sacred traditional patterns to them, even if I am playing in traditional style of breathing and sounding. I don't even read or practice them or listen too closely. And I won't touch wood from their continent if possible.

  • @mattthe-hat2299
    @mattthe-hat2299 4 роки тому

    👏👏👏👏👏

  • @JasonwithaJay
    @JasonwithaJay 4 роки тому

    Very proud to have you as my instructor. I'm really glad to hear you talk this way. I've been concerned with cultural appropriation since I started playing. For instance there's a lot of cool didjes out there that I can't bring myself to buy because it seems wrong for white people to make money on the instruments. It has forced me to do a lot more research on aboriginal life and culture than I would have normally. They've had so much stolen from them by white people. I don't want to be another.
    The only people I could find to teach were white. Obviously I found the right white guy. I do wish there were more aboriginal instructors that got some notoriety and that western students could turn to.

  • @mysteriousmansion1841
    @mysteriousmansion1841 4 роки тому +2

    pure cringe bro

    • @2CanChewBoo
      @2CanChewBoo 4 роки тому +3

      He's just doing his part dude just like you should do your part wherever you could

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому

      It's a cringe-worthy topic for many.

  • @yoba6037
    @yoba6037 4 роки тому +2

    You are the opposite of an artist.

    • @Breathwood
      @Breathwood  4 роки тому +1

      Curious. All I did was get on here to say I'll be sharing a portion of what I earn with a cause that supports Indigenous people in Australia, and yes, I'll be inviting others to join in that. You get on here and start the name calling. Whatever you view an artist to be, I guess I'm glad I'm its opposite.

    • @yoba6037
      @yoba6037 4 роки тому

      @@Breathwood curious. you're an idiot.

    • @matc87
      @matc87 4 роки тому

      @@Breathwood just a looser troll. wouldn't worry about him

    • @stevedotg3965
      @stevedotg3965 3 роки тому

      A real loser. Did you think of that post yourself or did your mommy help you?