We are excited to present wearable Handpan and Didgeridoo art that you can display wherever you go. T-Shirts, Hooded Sweatshirts and Mugs available now.
These two special new designs were created by artist Craig Anthony Miller specially for Didge Project and we could not be happier.
Enjoy the new art in our storeand stay tuned for news on stickers, hats, and other great apparel featuring these new designs.
What’s up everybody? AJ here from Didge Project wishing you a happy day!
Recently I got to play some super cool instruments, the Chromatic Mallet Harp and the RAV G Humayun, with two excellent musicians, Adrian DiMatteo and Mike Fisher on Electric Guitar and Bass. These videos were a joy to make as we featured these exciting new instruments in a live jam session context.
The Chromatic Mallet Harp has seriously become my go to instrument when playing music with friends. I personally prefer the Chromatic Mallet Harp over any handpan, because it has all 12 tones from the western musical scale. So I’m getting that really sweet Mallet Harp sound but I can play along with almost any chord changes and jump in with a lot of different songs. Of course, I have a background in piano playing and music theory, so that really helps and makes this instrument perfectly suited to my skill set.
The RAV G Humayun, however, is a whole different animal. It’s got this really sweet middle-eastern sound and the vibe it creates is so different than any music I have ever played. It’s like I am automatically thrown into a mystical jam session and I can only imagine how many possibilities there are with this instrument.
Last but not least, I got to have my first ever blues jam session on the RAV Vast C Blues and RAV Vast D Blues scales. These instruments were super fun to play and Adrian DiMatteo and I were able to use them to create a bunch of different blues textures in combination with the electric guitar. Check out the video below.
As always, thanks for tuning in and looking forward to seeing you soon!
The Mallet Harp Mini is a portable xylophone that is super lightweight, sounds incredible and comes at a great price ($195 at time of writing). Play it handheld or put it down to use its built in acoustic wah-wah effect. Great for healing sessions, sound baths, jam sessions and for just having fun! This sound healing instrument is great for kids as they can play along, bang on it as hard as they want with the mallets while only bringing harmonious sounds into the space. A wonderful sound healing instrument for all ages!
Check out the Mallet Harp Mini from different angles:
Is the Mallet Harp Mini a perfect sound healing instrument? Only you can be the judge. Pick one up today and try for yourself. Then post a comment below to let us know how you like it.
Special thanks to Hannah Apollonia and Adrian DiMatteo for lending their talents to the Mallet Harp Mini video review.
Looking to add some deeply relaxing sounds to your set up? In this video with Adrian DiMatteo and Hannah Apollonia, we cover 10 categories of sound healing instruments. Adrian and Hannah are members of the Dream Seed shamanic sound healing ensemble and have years of experience using music for meditation, healing and spiritual practice. This is by no means an exhaustive list of instruments that can be used for sound healing, however this is a great overview of some of the tools that can be accessible to anyone at any budget.
Adrian plays the crystal pyramid over Hannah’s head
Instruments mentioned in this video available in the Didge Project store:
We at Didge Project are excited to announce our long awaited Overtone Throat Singing Course, a 2-hour instructional video with worksheets, led by our very own Jerry Walsh. Jerry has been studying throat singing from many different traditions for more than 10 years and brings a wealth of knowledge to this art form.
In addition to the 2-hour video throat singing course, Jerry Walsh will be offering 3 live group zoom classes on throat singing in July 2021 as well as specials on private lessons. Check out all of the offers bundled with the Overtone Throat Singing Course. Check out the course info video above to see what the course is all about.
Now that we’ve gotten through all the news, we are happy to release this incredible set of music performed live in the studio by Jerry Walsh using nothing more than a loop station, his voice and organic acoustic instruments. Click the video window below to watch. Thanks for tuning in and we wish you a great day!
In this video we demonstrate and explain 5 great new scales on the Hokema Sansula, all of which are now available in the Didge Project store. We chose all of these scales because they stand alone as beautiful sounding instruments and also have a great range of compatibility, especially with some of our best selling RAV Drum scales:
D Major Sansula with RAV in B Kurd, B Celtic Minor, B RUS, D Major
A Major Sansula with RAV A Marmara
G Pygmy Sansula with RAV G Pygmy and G Minor Pentatonic
G Major Melody Sansula with RAV E Low Pygmy and C Golden Gate
In this video we are excited to introduce some awesome new products, including the Meinl Sonic Energy Steel Tongue Drum (which retails for an amazing $299 with case and mallets), and the Meinl Handpan Stands. We compare these new Meinl tongue drums to two of our best selling products for the last 3 years, the RAV Vast (aka RAV Drum) and the Aura Handpan for this Pan Drum Comparison.
The B17 Kalimba by Hokema is a beautiful thumb piano which is great for playing popular songs, jamming, playing chord changes, and general improvisation. It’s got a fantastic tone. In this video, Adrian DiMatteo shows us some cool things you can do with the Hokema B17 Kalimba.
People have been asking us for years to help them select a complementary scale for the RAV Drum they already own. After a great deal of coordination, we have finally put this video together to give you, our viewers, an audio/visual representation of every possible RAV Vast combination of 2 instruments, in a real-life jam session.
This video is indexed by combination, so scroll down here to jump to any scale combination that you’d like to hear.
Special thanks to Jerry Walsh and Matt Bazgier for taking the time to work with the different scales and figure out how to play them together. These guys have been super dedicated to getting out information about all the instruments we work with here at Didge Project, and this video is a testament to the quality of their work.
Index of all of RAV Vast Combinations
To jump directly to a RAV Vast Combination, click on the timestamp below:
0:47​ B RUS & D Major 2:50​ B Celtic Minor & D Major 4:46​ D Major & B Kurd 6:40​ D Major & B Celtic Double Ding 8:32​ B Golden Arcadia & B Major 10:20​ G Pygmy & G Minor Pentatonic 12:26​ B Onoleo & F# In Sen 14:21​ F# In Sen & B Arabian Nights 16:19​ D Major & F# In Sen 18:30​ B RUS & B Celtic Double Ding 20:20​ B RUS & B Celtic Minor 22:14​ B RUS & B Kurd 24:03​ B Celtic Double Ding & B Kurd 25:59​ B Celtic Minor & B Kurd 27:53​ B Celtic Minor and B Celtic Double Ding 29:41​ A Integral and D Celtic Minor 31:40​ C Golden Gate and E Low Pygmy 33:41​ A Integral and E Low Pygmy 35:25​ Closing thoughts
The djembe slap technique is a highly debated topic as there are many ways to do it. In this video Matt Bazgier shows us two of the most common ways to play the djembe slap. We could write more here, but it’s all in the video.
