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How To: Make an agave didgeridoo

Watch this music video tutorial to learn how to make a didgeridoo, or didjeridu, out of agave. This instructional video will allow you to use an agave trunk to make your own didgeridoo using a process that is involved and not for beginners.

How To: Make your own didgeridoo

Watch this music how-to video to learn how to make your own didgeridoo out of agave using the fire drilling method. This tutorial video on how to make a didgeridoo is not for beginners, as it involves chopping down the agave tree yourself and does not provide spoken instructions.

How To: Make and play a didgeridoo

This music tutorial video shows how to make a didgeridoo, an aboriginal instrument, out of a PVC pipe, beeswax, and other household materials. Making and playing your own didgeridoo will be easy with the instructions in this helpful how-to video.

How To: Practice playing the Irish flute

Learn how to play the Irish flute with various tips and techniques including breathing and fingering exercises with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video series.

How To: Play the Irish flute

Learn how to play the Irish flute including making notes, holding the instrument and playing tunes with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video series.

How To: Play the clarinet

Learn how to play the clarinet with tips such as how to hold the clarinet, finger placement and clarinet embouchure with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video series.

How To: Whistle like a bird

This 3 part how to video walks you through imitating birds by whistling. First you will learn to whistle through your teeth and then how to practice the technique to whistle bird calls. Watch this tutorial and you'll be attracting birds in no time.

How To: Align your flute headjoint to the body for comfort

Many flute books suggest center-to-center (blow-hole lines up with center of keys) structure, but this can lead to comfort problems and inefficient use of the arm tendons. So this quick video is for teachers and advanced students to show some of the "rock and roll" problems and their solutions.

How To: Play a hit on a tin whistle

Watch this winds tutorial to learn how to play a hit, the easiest and most common type of Irish ornamentation, on a tin whistle. Even first-time tin whistle players will find this video helpful. You'll be able to play hits on your tin whistle in no time after watching this instructional video.

How To: Hold your flute

This is a demonstration video to give you some tips for how to hold your flute. This video is good for people who have never played the flute before.

How To: Play a scale on the B Flat flute

Learn how to play the first few notes of the scale from low d to 2nd C on the flute.

How To: Play the second register on the B Flat flute

Learn how to play the notes in the second register on the B Flat flute.

How To: Play "God Save our Queen " on the B flat flute

Learn to play Britain's national anthem on the Miller Browne Fife. This tutorial is one of a series of instruction for students who are learning to play the B Flat Flute.

How To: Play beginning recorder

If you have never played recorder before, (or if 3rd grade was a long time ago) this lesson should help you learn the basics of recorder playing: how to play all the notes and how to fix the squeaks. Play beginning recorder.

How To: Make a mouth organ or pan flute from markers

This video will show you how to make a mouth organ from markers.

How To: Play the flute

This simple video, from what seems to be an ordinary housewife, goes over the basics to playing a flute, all while reading the instructions out of her flute book. Watch this 2-part video to be a master.

How To: Repair your woodwind flute

From the title "Woodwind/Brasswind Maintenance & Quick Fixes," master repair technician Jeff Peterson demonstrates some quick fixes for your flute so that you can make it through your gig.

How To: Hand fart sweet child o' mine

You have simply not enjoyed life until you watch the entire manualist rendition of this Guns n Roses classic.

How To: Hand fart like a true manualist

Gerry (Jerry) Phillips and I have been playing songs on our hands for 38 years! This is a tutorial on how to play songs on your hands! Not everyone will be able to do this but, some of you will!

How To: Learn beginning flute

This video teaches a beginning flute lesson. Part 1 of 2 - How to Learn beginning flute.

How To: Begin playing saxophone

This video teaches the basics of beginning saxophone. Part 1 of 2 - How to Begin playing saxophone.

How To: Practice circular breathing while playing didge

I for one, doubted the existence of circular breathing. Come on. Breathing in, while also breathing out. That seems as impossible as perpetual motion or urinating while drinking.

How To: Practice articulation and double tounging on flute

Introduction to double tonguing. Practice with and without your flute. Remember to play with a good sound even while articulating fast. Use a metronome for EVEN articulation. Try to equalize the tongue (T or K) and throat (K or G) strokes.

How To: Sing while playing the flute

Singing and playing together helps open and resonate the sound, place the embouchure, and control the air quantity. It can be used as a warm up or extended technique

How To: Improve your flute embouchure

Learn how to improve your flute playing techniques with these tips.

How To: Play blues on a flute in Eb (E flat)

Tuning your flute is often necessary to get the right sound. Other common problems with flutes are addressed in this series as well. Play blues on a flute in Eb (E flat) - Part 1 of 16.

How To: Play blues on a flute in F major

An experienced player, Kiely Griffin first teaches you about blues music and how you can encorporate that in playing your flute. Play blues on a flute in F major - Part 1 of 16.

How To: Make a beeswax mouthpiece for a didgeridoo

Perhaps you want to replace the beeswax mouthpiece on your didgeridoo, or you might want to tune your didgeridoo mouthpiece to your preferred size, well here's the full information in order to do so!

How To: Play the digeridoo

A basic instruction video on how to play the didgeridoo.

How To: Play a didgeridoo

Lesson one of ten on how to play the didgeridoo from www.yirdaki.com! This is a five part series until the last five segments are finished.

How To: Make a plastic didgeridoo

This shows you how to make a didgeridoo, the Australian tribal instrument, out of PVC pipe.

How To: Build rhythm on the didgeridoo

Here we introduce two easy to learn rhythms for the didgeridoo student. There is also some advice on developing your own rhythms too!

How To: Practice circular breathing while playing didgeridoo

Circular breathing will enable you to play your didgeridoo continuously. In this movie we'll show you how easy it is by breaking the process down in to small simple steps.

How To: Make the basic drone sound on a didgeridoo

In this lesson we explain how you can make the basic drone sound on a didgeridoo. We then show you how your drone can be further refined.

How To: Embellish the sound of the didgeridoo with your voice

You can embellish the basic drone sound of the didgeridoo by using your voice. If we liken the basic drone to the canvas for our musical expression, then your voice is the paint you use to colour that sound.

How To: Practice basic rhythm building in the didgeridoo

Here we demonstrate how you can use your tongue to begin to make basic rhythms.

How To: Play flute scales in D flat (Db)

A member of the woodwind family, the flute is a reedless instrument that plays music when air is blown over the opening or an edge. Early flutes were made of bone and date back 30,000 to 50,000 years in certain parts of the world. In this series of videos, learn more about playing the flute in the key of Db from our expert.