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This weekend offers you the opportunity to really refine the quality of your Yidaki playing and to develop your personal Yidaki playing style. The course will cover everything from the individual parts of rhythms to the composing and playing of complicated rhythm structures. If you want to take your Yidaki playing to the next level, then this is the course for you!

There will be 12 hours of Yidaki tuition in total, delivered over a 4 day period. The information will be taught for 3 hours per day at 1.5 hour intervals. During the 4 day weekend, therewill be plenty of spare time to allow you to practise what you have learnt.

Jeremy's skill and flexibility as a teacher will cater for all skill levels and accommodate the different needs of the group. There will also be the opportunity for 1 to 1 tuition with Jeremy

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Jeremy Cloake is the creative director of Resonance, who generates the ideas for audio and visual works. He is a talented composer who arranges, plays, records, mixes and masters all of the music for Resonance and together with Resonance animation artists, he arranges film and animation visuals to match the theme of the piece being made.

Jeremy plays numerous musical instruments including Yidaki, West African percussion, Cook island log drums, Taonga Puoro and N'goni. He also sings, arranges electronic music and makes many different types of musical instruments. He has produced several cds, 'Organic Dance Didjeridu' in 1999, 'Transformation' in 2004 and his latest recording, a tuition cd called 'Balanda Yidaki Dhukarr' released in July 2008.

He studied Yolngu Yidaki playing styles with master Yidaki players in Arnhemland for 4 years. Whilst there he further developed his unique style of Yidaki playing that uses traditional style techniques in a contemporary way. He is praised internationally as one of the worlds most innovative, powerful and dynamic contemporary didjeridu players and is well known as a performer and teacher of the didjeridu.

Jeremy tours regularly as a solo artist throughout Asia and the Pacific and has performed and taught in Japan each year since 2001. He has performed and delivered workshops in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England, Holland, Belgium, France and Iceland. He has composed music for specific shows and audiences, including major corporations.