The new didge arrived today.
As you can tell from the video, the didge has an excellent breadth of tones. It doesn’t really show in the picture on the website (Cherry Blossomz <– website here ) but the mouth piece is pretty small. Not too small, just smaller than than behemoth my Bb didge has. The result for me is: it is much easier to implement the circular breathing. Continue reading
Working with the technique from Part 3 of the Didgeridoo Dojo Circular Breathing lessons. Like the break-down of the lessons. Feels like I’m starting to get somewhere with the circular breathing — but, it is adding a definite challenge to the “getting my embrasure on”. Continue reading
There is another formula that will generate cash for the app developer: “Develop Apps For Others That Are Willing To Pay.” Problem with this formula, is that getting involved with a dreamer (the guy that is totally convinced his app will make millions) has karmic consequences. Yes, he’s a grown up. Yes, if you don’t take his money someone else will. But, do you want the karma? Continue reading
Wake up. The toast doesn’t have to burn, you can get it while it is golden brown.
Who does this benefit? It benefits Apple and Google (and whoever else is in the distribution game that I’ve neglected to mention.)
You might think it benefits the users. Yes and no. Yes, there are many apps to choose from. That is good. But, that also means tons of garbage in addition to the cherries. If somehow the market filtered out the dogs, then users would have less garbage to sift through. But, at the moment, having a zillion apps is to the advantage of Google and Apple. Later when they see sales suffer because of decreased customer inclination to purchase brought about as a result of purchase regret, then Google (for sure) will institute some kind of “app rank” that will eliminate (or push to the bottom of the list) all the dogs.
And what about developers? Continue reading
It is no secret that success in the various app stores is pretty much a lottery. While there are many things that you can do to guarantee failure, there isn’t much you can do to guarantee success. In fact, a recent survey by App-Promo.com suggests that 60% of developers don’t even break even (meeting development costs). And, horror of horrors, 80% of the app developers did not make enough money to support a standalone business.
Personally, I think these numbers are pretty damn good. That means 40% of all app developers surveyed broke even (or better). And, 20% of app developers surveyed made enough money to support a standalone business. In the world of brick n’ mortar, in the world of storefront business start ups how many succeed? By comparison these numbers are pretty good. And, if you stand around a room of competitors and don’t believer you are in the top 20% of those present, you don’t belong in business. “Damn right, I’m better at what I do than four out of five of these other schmucks.” Is this a proper attitude? It is gracious to think this way? No. However, if you take the time to ask the winners in the room, they will confess (if they are being honest) that they do believe they have a definite competitive edge. Continue reading
Started working with Circular Breathing video 2 from the Didgeridoo Dojo guys today. Making nice progress. But….
Later in the day, it looks like I might need to back off on the circular breathing part a bit and get more drone time in. It’s like my mouth doesn’t even remember what an embrasure is.
What happened is the circular breathing breaks up my embrasure (a little) so that after each breath I have to find the embrasure again. It’s not that far off but with the low (Bb) drone it can be a little tough — at least on this particular didge. It is definitely worth getting an “easy” didge for your first. I got this one because it was gorgeous wood and as a bass player I’m thinking the low Bb will be excellent addition to my musical adventures.
Below is a link to lesson 2 (of 5) for the circular breathing.
The low tone is working well. Running about 90% or better on getting the drone and keeping it.
About a dozen practice sessions throughout the day. Starting to experiment with shaping the sound while playing the low drone.
Also started work on the circular breathing thing. There are several good tutorials on youtube. I’m working with one from the guys in Didgeridoo Dojo. Continue reading