Jonny Cope
Soundforhealth.com
Jonny Cope. Didgeridoo pro perfomer / teacher.
I started my didge journey around 1995 with a cheap bamboo and no clue. After many months of trying and failing I started to get some ideas and discovered circular breathing.
In the days before much online presence (No Facebook or Youtube!) I was lucky to find a few good players like Shaun Farrenden who sometimes gave workshops. By 1998 I had enough basic skills to start working on helping others too and wrote my tuition book in 1999. This was joined by a cassette tape then CD with audio lessons. By this time a few events were starting to happen in the UK so it was possible to meet other players and learn more. I was very lucky to meet some great players over the years and continued to learn a lot. In 2001 I started a monthly ‘Didge Club’ that met in a London church and it was a great hub for players and friends. I started giving workshops myself and in 2006 made my tuition DVD. It has been calculated that, via my various teaching aids / workshops / etc, I have taught something like 50,000 people how to play the didgeridoo.
I continue to learn and, since 2013, have offering a growing range of tuition sessions on YouTube and Udemy teaching platform.
Over the years I’ve had some great performance opportunities at sporting events, festivals throughout Europe, private functions and even The Royal Albert Hall. All great fun and have helped me understand how to present didgeridoo to allow people to understand this instrument and it’s origins – The Aboriginal Peoples of Australia.
I've had a great opportunity, over the years, to create didgeridoo music for a number of Film & TV projects and on several CDs.
I started my didge journey around 1995 with a cheap bamboo and no clue. After many months of trying and failing I started to get some ideas and discovered circular breathing.
In the days before much online presence (No Facebook or Youtube!) I was lucky to find a few good players like Shaun Farrenden who sometimes gave workshops. By 1998 I had enough basic skills to start working on helping others too and wrote my tuition book in 1999. This was joined by a cassette tape then CD with audio lessons. By this time a few events were starting to happen in the UK so it was possible to meet other players and learn more. I was very lucky to meet some great players over the years and continued to learn a lot. In 2001 I started a monthly ‘Didge Club’ that met in a London church and it was a great hub for players and friends. I started giving workshops myself and in 2006 made my tuition DVD. It has been calculated that, via my various teaching aids / workshops / etc, I have taught something like 50,000 people how to play the didgeridoo.
I continue to learn and, since 2013, have offering a growing range of tuition sessions on YouTube and Udemy teaching platform.
Over the years I’ve had some great performance opportunities at sporting events, festivals throughout Europe, private functions and even The Royal Albert Hall. All great fun and have helped me understand how to present didgeridoo to allow people to understand this instrument and it’s origins – The Aboriginal Peoples of Australia.
I've had a great opportunity, over the years, to create didgeridoo music for a number of Film & TV projects and on several CDs.
Jonny’s link
http://soundforhealth.com - online music shop
Udemy - my online tuition courses
Reverb Nation - Music downloads, fan site, etc.
Overtone singing
Facebook - my personal pages and my shop page
Youtube - my movie channel
http://soundforhealth.com - online music shop
Udemy - my online tuition courses
Reverb Nation - Music downloads, fan site, etc.
Overtone singing
Facebook - my personal pages and my shop page
Youtube - my movie channel
Some of Jonny’s’s video tutorials from YouTube using Hard Fiberglass Didgeridoo
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