Let's all play Vernons "gudurrku"

nitupsaar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:19 am

Hi everyone,

ididjaustralia wrote:

Let's all try to play as close to what Vernon is playing and record ourselves, it will be a great exercise I reckon.

here my basic transcription of the "gudurrku"-mouthsounds:

dith dhu dith dhu-d-hirrrl

dith dhu rung rung dawh - dith dhu rung rung dawh - dhirrl dawh
dith dhu rung rung dawh - dith dhu rung rung dawh

dhoo - rung rung - dhoo - rung - dhoo

rung - dith dhu rung rung dawh - dith dhu rung rung dawh - dhirrl dawh
dith dhu rung rung dawh - dith dhu rung rung dawh - dhirrl dawh

dhoo - rung rung - dhoo - rung - dhoo

rung - dith dhu rung rung dawh - dith dhu rung rung dawh - dhirrl dawh
dith dhu rung dhirrl rung rung- dith dhu rung rung dawh
dith dhu dhirrl - dith dhu dhirrl - dith dhu dhirrl - dith dhu dhirrl

dhoo-dhooo

Ahaw · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:21 pm

Let's also put the link to the original sound file here too : Vernon_Gudurrku.mp3

Edit : Cool transcription Nitupsaar.
Just... to my ears, in this line :
dith dhu rung RUNG dawh - dith dhu rung RUNG dawh - DHIRRL dawh
the articulations in capital and bold sound the same to me.
I'd right the whole line like this :
dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh - dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh - dhirrl dawh
What do you think ?

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The whole vamp hence being (to my mind) :

dith dhu dith dhu-d-hirrrl
dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh - dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh - dhirrl dawh
dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh - dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh
dhoooo - rung rung - dhoo - rung - dho - rung
dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh - dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh - dhirrl dawh
dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh - dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh - dhirrl dawh
dhoooo - rung rung - dhoo - rung - dho - rung
dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh - dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh - dhirrl dawh
dith dhu rung dhirrl rung rung- dith dhu rung dhirrl dawh
dith dhu dhirrl - dith dhu dhirrl - dith dhu dhirrl - dith dhu dhirrl
dho-dhooo

kdidj · **Joined:** Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:03 am **Posts:** 470

Pretty much bang on methinks Francis. Well transcribed boys. I tend not to get so technical when analysing vamps and just memorise the pattern as if I transcribe and play off that I tend to get caught up in the wording and feel it loses something. To each his own!

Ahaw · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:30 pm

"bang on" ... ??? (excuse my French :-)

I'm not so much into wording either, but still into visual. I could not have transcripted the "rung" and "dawh" but they do fit in perfectly, good job Nitupsaar !
I need to "see" the pattern to memorize it, that's my "drawer" side.
Just copied Nitupsaar's transcription, made Homer's "dho!" a little longer or shorter depending on how they sounded, and changed a rung for a dhirrl.

ididjaustralia · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:43 pm

Too hard for me to transcribe but I can see sense in both Ambros' and Francis' efforts. The thing is that if I used only Yolngu Matha orthography which will be my tendency anyway, there are some things Vernon does which I can't really transcribe orthographically with YM so, to me, transcribing yidaki or mago rhythms can't exactly describe what the mouth is doing but transcription does serve a useful purpose as a memory aide. In other words, if what you write down helps you remember the sequence of sounds/techniques to be played, it can help in learning a rhythm.

Guan

kdidj · **Joined:** Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:03 am **Posts:** 470

Fran6co,

'Bang on' means 'correct' or 'right'.

K

ididjaustralia · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:33 pm

Ummm... Not gang bang Francis, but back onto topic, we're talking about blowing in holes and long sticks right? Stop!

Guan

Ahaw · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:55 pm

506 holes to blow in... should get in touch with the Guiness Book for biggest GangBang ever, Guan :-)

(biggest stick gangbang ever)

nitupsaar · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:29 am

Hi Boys,

here is my shot on this tune, not perfect yet:

Attachment:

gudurrku_gunybi_Eb_F.mp3 [1.16 MiB]
Downloaded 49 times

till tomorrow,

Ambros

ididjaustralia · **Posted:** Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:43 pm

No bad Ambros, I need to listen again with proper speakers another time as they're packed away, but good job!

Any1 else want to give it a shot? I think I'm not brave enuf yet...

Guan

ozmadman · **Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:45 am

My attempt, can't hit those high note howls tho!!! too deep a voice, or too old! one of the two

ididjaustralia · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:09 pm

Good effort Paul, the instrument you used sounds pretty close to the Djalu stick Vernon played on too!

Guan

ozmadman · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:26 pm

Thanks Guan

It is a Milminyina Dhamarrandji D/F that I got off Kyle a while ago, a big Djalu type instrument. It got delivered to Colin (A/arts) and I picked it up during a didge evening he had at his place. Colin really liked it and offered me TWO other instruments from his collection in exchange for it, I must admit I was tempted but I am glad I turned him down and kept it. here's a pic

Paul

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