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In this lesson you will learn about positioning the African djembe drum to get the best sound and making it comfortable to play. These instructional videos provide helpful tips, essential technique, and practise rhythms to support your playing. There is no substitute for playing the djembe live with others. To book a session or find out more about Unbeatable Energy and Steve Rivers please get in touch. I’m Steve, founder of Unbeatable Energy and an African drumming enthusiast for over 30 years! 🪘 If you enjoyed this video please like & subscribe - it really helps our channel grow 😊 Check out the rest of our channel for free beginner-friendly lessons, interactive events, workshops and more 👉 https://bit.ly/41zc7rm To get involved with our evening drumming classes, corporate team-building activities and interactive drumming workshops for events, conferences, offices, and schools head to our website 👉 https://bit.ly/3L8xoBm 🥁DRUM SOME RHYTHM INTO YOUR LIFE 🥁 #percussion #djembelessons #djembedrum #djembe #djembé #djembelove #junkpercussion #drummingtechniques #drummingcommunity #drumlessons #drummers #drumming #school #samba #sambadrumming #sambapercussion 3:19
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Beginners' djembe - Lesson 1 - Position and play

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In this lesson you will learn how to produce the Bass sound on the djembe. I’m Steve, founder of Unbeatable Energy and an African drumming enthusiast for over 30 years! 🪘 If you enjoyed this video please like & subscribe - it really helps our channel grow 😊 Check out the rest of our channel for free beginner-friendly lessons, interactive events, workshops and more 👉 https://bit.ly/41zc7rm To get involved with our evening drumming classes, corporate team-building activities and interactive drumming workshops for events, conferences, offices, and schools head to our website 👉 https://bit.ly/3L8xoBm 🥁DRUM SOME RHYTHM INTO YOUR LIFE 🥁 #percussion #djembelessons #djembedrum #djembe #djembé #djembelove #junkpercussion #drummingtechniques #drummingcommunity #drumlessons #drummers #drumming #school #samba #sambadrumming #sambapercussion These instructional videos provide helpful tips, essential technique, and practise rhythms to support your playing. There is no substitute for playing the djembe live with others. To book a session, or find out more about Unbeatable Energy and Steve Rivers, please get in touch. 5:18
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Beginners' djembe - Lesson 2 - Bass technique

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http://www.unbeatable-energy.co.uk In this 2 part lesson you will learn how to produce the Tone sound on the African djembe drum. This first video looks at finding the correct contact position. The second video provides a useful exercise to help create resonance with the technique: http://youtu.be/2bqZD9Yuvj4 Steve Rivers and the Unbeatable Energy team have been teaching and inspiring drum players for over 20 years. Through African drumming and percussion workshops and events, Steve and his team have unlocked the undiscovered creativity and rhythm in thousands of adults and children from evening classes and schools to corporate events across the world. See the workshops in action here: https://youtu.be/no-9vh6aVT0 These instructional videos provide helpful tips, essential technique, and practise rhythms to support your playing. There is no substitute for playing the djembe live with others.To book a session, or find out more about Unbeatable Energy and Steve Rivers, please get in touch. 4:22
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Beginners' djembe - Lesson 3 - Part 1 - Tone technique

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http://www.unbeatable-energy.co.uk In this 2 part lesson you will learn about the Tone technique on the djembe. Steve Rivers and the Unbeatable Energy team have been teaching and inspiring drum players across the world for over 20 years. Through drumming workshops and events, Steve and his team have unlocked the undiscovered creativity and rhythm in hundreds of adults and children across the country. From one to ones, to corporate events with companies such as Google, John Lewis and HSBC. See the workshops in action here: https://youtu.be/no-9vh6aVT0 To book a session or find out more about Unbeatable Energy and Steve Rivers please get in touch. 3:12
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Beginners' djembe - Lesson 3 - Part 2 - Tone technique

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http://www.unbeatable-energy.co.uk In this lesson you will learn a rhythm to help you practice what you have learnt so far on the djembe with Steve Rivers. These instructional videos provide helpful tips, essential technique, and practise rhythms to support your playing. There is no substitute for playing the djembe live with others.To book a session, or find out more about Unbeatable Energy and Steve Rivers, please get in touch. I’m Steve, founder of Unbeatable Energy and an African drumming enthusiast for over 30 years! 🪘 If you enjoyed this video please like & subscribe - it really helps our channel grow 😊 Check out the rest of our channel for free beginner-friendly lessons, interactive events, workshops and more 👉 https://bit.ly/41zc7rm To get involved with our evening drumming classes, corporate team-building activities and interactive drumming workshops for events, conferences, offices, and schools head to our website 👉 https://bit.ly/3L8xoBm 🥁DRUM SOME RHYTHM INTO YOUR LIFE 🥁 #percussion #djembelessons #djembedrum #djembe #djembé #djembelove #junkpercussion #drummingtechniques #drummingcommunity #drumlessons #drummers #drumming #school #samba #sambadrumming #sambapercussion 6:17
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Beginners' djembe - Lesson 4 - Practice rhythm

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In this lesson you will learn a classic djembe pattern to practice your skills. I’m Steve, founder of Unbeatable Energy and an African drumming enthusiast for over 30 years! 🪘 If you enjoyed this video please like & subscribe - it really helps our channel grow 😊 Check out the rest of our channel for free beginner-friendly lessons, interactive events, workshops and more 👉 https://bit.ly/41zc7rm To get involved with our evening drumming classes, corporate team-building activities and interactive drumming workshops for events, conferences, offices, and schools head to our website 👉 https://bit.ly/3L8xoBm 🥁DRUM SOME RHYTHM INTO YOUR LIFE 🥁 #percussion #djembelessons #djembedrum #djembe #djembé #djembelove #junkpercussion #drummingtechniques #drummingcommunity #drumlessons #drummers #drumming #school #samba #sambadrumming #sambapercussion 7:58
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Beginners' djembe - Lesson 5 - Classic djembe pattern

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http://www.unbeatable-energy.co.uk In this lesson you will learn the very important technique of how to create the slap sound on the djembe - without the bruises! Steve Rivers and the Unbeatable Energy team have been teaching and inspiring drum players for over 20 years. Through African drumming and percussion workshops and events, Steve and his team have unlocked the undiscovered creativity and rhythm in thousands of adults and children from evening classes and schools to corporate events across the world. See the workshops in action here: https://youtu.be/no-9vh6aVT0 These instructional videos provide helpful tips, essential technique, and practise rhythms to support your playing. There is no substitute for playing the djembe live with others.To book a session, or find out more about Unbeatable Energy and Steve Rivers, please get in touch. 6:36
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Beginners' djembe - Lesson 6 - Slap technique without pain

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http://www.unbeatable-energy.co.uk In this lesson you will learn a practice pattern which with help you to improve your slap, tone and bass technique, creating distinction between the three sounds. Steve Rivers and the Unbeatable Energy team have been teaching and inspiring drum players for over 20 years. Through African drumming and percussion workshops and events, Steve and his team have unlocked the undiscovered creativity and rhythm in thousands of adults and children from evening classes and schools to corporate events across the world. See the workshops in action here: https://youtu.be/no-9vh6aVT0 These instructional videos provide helpful tips, essential technique, and practise rhythms to support your playing. There is no substitute for playing the djembe live with others.To book a session, or find out more about Unbeatable Energy and Steve Rivers, please get in touch. 3:27
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Beginners' djembe - Lesson 7 - Slap, tone, bass practice pattern

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http://www.unbeatable-energy.co.uk In this lesson you will learn one of the accompanying parts to an West African rhythm called 'Kassa'. Steve Rivers and the Unbeatable Energy team have been teaching and inspiring drum players for over 20 years. Through African drumming and percussion workshops and events, Steve and his team have unlocked the undiscovered creativity and rhythm in thousands of adults and children from evening classes and schools to corporate events across the world. See the workshops in action here: https://youtu.be/no-9vh6aVT0 These instructional videos provide helpful tips, essential technique, and practise rhythms to support your playing. There is no substitute for playing the djembe live with others.To book a session, or find out more about Unbeatable Energy and Steve Rivers, please get in touch. 5:08
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Beginners' djembe - Lesson 8 - Kassa groove

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http://www.unbeatable-energy.co.uk In this lesson you will learn the technique and correct coordination for a classic djembe pattern called 'Djembe Populaire'. Steve Rivers and the Unbeatable Energy team have been teaching and inspiring drum players for over 20 years. Through African drumming and percussion workshops and events, Steve and his team have unlocked the undiscovered creativity and rhythm in thousands of adults and children from evening classes and schools to corporate events across the world. See the workshops in action here: https://youtu.be/no-9vh6aVT0 These instructional videos provide helpful tips, essential technique, and practise rhythms to support your playing. There is no substitute for playing the djembe live with others.To book a session, or find out more about Unbeatable Energy and Steve Rivers, please get in touch. 7:31
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Beginners' djembe - Lesson 9 - Djembe populaire

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http://www.unbeatable-energy.co.uk In this 10th lesson you will learn a some simple grooves patterns which are frequently used in West African 12/8 djembe rhythms. Steve Rivers and the Unbeatable Energy team have been teaching and inspiring drum players for over 20 years. Through African drumming and percussion workshops and events, Steve and his team have unlocked the undiscovered creativity and rhythm in thousands of adults and children from evening classes and schools to corporate events across the world. See the workshops in action here: https://youtu.be/no-9vh6aVT0 These instructional videos provide helpful tips, essential technique, and practise rhythms to support your playing. There is no substitute for playing the djembe live with others.To book a session, or find out more about Unbeatable Energy and Steve Rivers, please get in touch. 4:48
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Beginners' djembe - Lesson 10 - Basic 12/8 grooves

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/512991-What-Is-the-Djembe-African-Drums Speaker 1: Today we want to give you an overview of the Djembe. The djembe is a very popular drum from Africa. It has a goat skin on the top. It's made out of a big piece of wood, one solid piece of wood, and it has rope to keep it tight and to control the tuning. It has three sounds: bass, tone, slap, which is low, medium, high. In the djembe music, one person plays accompaniment (a repetitive pattern), and one person plays the solo. But first, Bemba is going to tell us more about why people play djembe. Speaker 2: Yeah, people play djembe for the celebrations, for the happy dance, for the wedding, for coming together. The djembe comes from Guinea, Mali, Ivory Coast, and Burkina Faso. Those are the countries where they play the most djembe. Sometimes people play djembe for people coming together. It's different tribes and contemporary, people in the village, they play the djembe for coming together. Speaker 1: Let's play some! It makes people happy. Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Speaker 3: That is the overview of the djembe drum. 2:33
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What Is the Djembe? | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/512992-How-to-Prepare-to-Play-the-Djembe-African-Drums Speaker 1: Before we even play the drum, we have to learn how to hold the djembe drum and what position to be in so that you can be comfortable to play for a long period of time. The first thing I do is I tilt the drum away from myself so that the sound can come out. If the drum is flat, there's no sound. I tilt the drum away from me, but it's going to fall, so I have to gently put my legs around the drum. It's not a thigh master. You don't have to sit here and squeeze it. You'll make yourself tired. You want to gently cradle the drum. You can see my knees hold the drum and my legs come around the drum so that it's comfortable and that the drum isn't going from side to side. I'm not leaning from side to side. It's straight forward, relaxed. I could sit like this for a long time. Speaker 2: Also, when you hold the drum, you have to relax. If you're not relaxing, you're not going to get a better sound. The way I'm sitting, like this, I'm more relaxed, more comfortable. If I'm more relaxed, my sounds are going to come out. Speaker 1: What about your arms and your shoulders? Speaker 2: Your arms too. Make sure you don't hold your arms when you start to play the drum, because if you hold them like this you're not going to have a better sound. The more you relax your feel and your body, because there's a body connection with the music. The way, you see how I'm relaxed here, I'm sitting like here, I'm relaxing. That way if I want to hit the bass, I only do use that bass. That way I'm relaxing. Speaker 1: And you're lifting your arms. You're moving your arms. You'll notice that my body is still. I'm not going side to side, but I'm lifting my arms up and down, and I'm staying center. Those are some tips on how to prepare yourself to play the djembe. 2:10
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How to Prepare to Play the Djembe | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/512993-How-to-Play-Basic-Sounds-on-Djembe-African-Drums Speaker 1: We're going to show you the basic sounds of the djembe drum. The djembe drum has three basic sounds: bass, tone, slap. Played together, in different combinations, that's how the music is made. Each drum is tuned a little differently. Mine is low. Speaker 2: Mine's high. Speaker 1: Together the music makes beautiful melody. Three sounds: bass, middle is tone, high is slap. Those are the basic sounds of the djembe. 1:39
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How to Play Basic Sounds on Djembe | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/512994-How-to-Play-Open-Tone-Sound-on-Djembe-African-Drums Speaker 1: Now we are going to learn how to play the tone on the Djembe drum. The tone sound is your middle pitch. Your base is low, and then your slap is high. The tone, really helps define the melody between the two, or three, or four, different Djembe parts. And the way I was taught, by Imbimba, was to put your fingers together, so you want to have your fingers together and you want to make sure that your thumb does not hit the Djembe, the thumb should stay out. And everyone's hand is different, so what I do is, I gently pull my thumb down. And then I put my hand, on the edge of the Djembe, and I make sure that my pinky knuckle is lined up with the rim of the drum. But as you see, when Bimba plays or I play, we're a little different because everyone's technique is different. And what I do is I come off the Djembe, all fingers together, same time, like that, watch again, I come off the drum. But Bimba, he's a little different, so you've got to watch it close. Speaker 2: So, the technique, what I had, my technique is very different. This is allowed because we all play with a different technique. So, my technique, I don't have to be close or my fingers together, I just open but, watch my technique, I do my turn, watch my technique again, watch my technique, see so that's mine. Speaker 1: Sometimes you can play with two hands. As you see, we are not playing hard, but we are moving our arms. If you don't bring your hand off the drum, you choke the sound. Speaker 2: Yes. Speaker 1: The Djembe outside, so you want the drum to resonate, so we always lift our hands off the drum. Even if you watch Bimba, he may not lift his arm as much, but notice how his fingers come off the drum. Speaker 2: It, you don't have to be strong to play the Djembe, to make the sound, no. The technique, it is coming from you because each Djembe player it's not because you are strong, you've got a (?) no, you see happy, see my technique is very simple, simple watch, so I am going to do the tone again and I don't have to lift my arms all down, just see one beat, you see? To make the sounds coming out, see it's coming out again. So, if I use both, it still would be the same, like a left, right. You see they are the same, see, so that is my technique. Speaker 1: And that is how you make the tone sound on the Djembe. 3:26
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How to Play Open Tone Sound on Djembe | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/512996-How-to-Play-Slaps-on-Djembe-African-Drums Speaker 1: How do we play the slap on the djembe? The slap is the highest pitched sound, it's not the loudest, they should all be equal in volume, but the slap has the higher pitch. The way I make that slap is I open my fingers just a little bit. I make sure my thumb is out of the way, and I make sure I lift off the drum by moving from the elbow all like one mechanism, like this. Everyone's slap is a little different, everyone's hand is different, everyone's drum is different. I always mark from the pad of my hand all the way to the tips of my fingers, all the length of my finger. Speaker 2: Mine is the same, but a little different because I got a small hand, so my technique is different. But sometime, you got a big hand, you got a small hand, the way you make the sound does come from you. Look how I make my sound. Speaker 1: Both of us are relaxed, and we always lift off the drum. Speaker 2: You see, I'm relaxing, but I can make a different technique too. Speaker 1: That's fast. You could play slow. You could play loud, you can play soft, but try to get your hands even, so that you're doing the same thing, fingers open just a little bit, not anything tense. If you have tension, or if you don't come off the drum, it stops the sound. Speaker 2: So I'm going to be playing stress slap like an eight count. Speaker 1: And that's how you play the slap sound on the djembe. 2:29
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How to Play Slaps on Djembe | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/512995-How-to-Play-a-Bass-Sound-on-Djembe-African-Drums Speaker 1: Now we will show you how to play the bass sound on the djembe drum. The most important thing when playing the bass is you have to tilt your drum. If my drum is flat, the sound doesn't come out. How does yours sound? Speaker 2: My sounds good because of the drum I already have mine positioned. Speaker 1: Right. He has the position of the djembe tilted away from him. If you tilt your drum toward you, you're going to hurt your wrist. We like to tilt the drum away that way the music projects to the audience as well. What I do is I just relax my hand. I move from the elbow, and I lift off the drum. Like this. Everyone's technique is a little differently. Speaker 2: My elbow is already there, but my technique is a little different because djembe sooner hit in the middle. My technique is coming out. My technique, his technique is different. Look at djembe this way. Me. My. Speaker 1: The bass sound on the djembe is the most fundamental, easiest sound to make. You're just playing in the center of the drum to let the drum resonate. That's how you make the bass djembe sound. 1:43
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How to Play a Bass Sound on Djembe | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513000-Djembe-Drumming-Patterns-for-Beginners-African-Drums We wanna show you some good patterns there are for beginners, for the djembe drums, from West Africa. For me, my favorite one is to play 3 tones and 5 slaps, but instead of playing them straight I'm gonna swing the rhythm and this is gonna help me learn the feeling of the West Africa music as well as change my technique from the tone to the slap. I play 3 tones, then I play 5 slaps. Tone, slap. An then I put it together and I let it breath. Helps me keep time and helps me feel the swing of the West Africa music. When I'm comfortable I can go faster. I can play faster. Even faster. That's my favorite hand pattern. So my, I have a different one, different idea. How to help you very begging, how to do the thing you get it. So my, I can start with the tone, then I can go the slap, then I can go to bass. So if I do all that together, I can do, then I go to slap, then one bass. If I want to go slow, if a want to go a little more faster I can go. If I want to go fast. This is it, djembe power for the beginners. 2:44
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Djembe Drumming Patterns for Beginners | African Drums

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How to Play Djembe Warm-Up Exercises | African Drums

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How to Play the Flam on Djembe | African Drums

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How to Play Muffled Slaps on Djembe | African Drums

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Advanced Djembe Drum Solos | African Drums

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Djembe Kuku Rhythm 1st Accompaniment | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513001-Beginner-Djembe-Drum-Solos-African-Drums Speaker 1: Okay, we want to give you some basic djembe solo ideas. Maybe you're new to improvising and you don't know exactly, how do I play the improvised solo? Bemba is going to play the solo. I'm going to play the basic accompaniment to keep the time. His idea is first to just isolate the sounds. He's going to play a simple rhythm on just slaps, the same rhythm on just the one, and the same rhythm on just the bass. That way you don't have to think too much. You have a rhythmic idea, you play on the slap, then the tone, then the bass. That's good. Can you explain that phrase? Speaker 2: Yeah. That phrase, I start with just a slap, then I go to a tone, then I go with the bass. That's how you're going to put it together to make the phrase speak, because to speak you have to know how to make the slap, tone, and bass. That's how you make the variations. Speaker 1: Play that one for us. Speaker 2: That's number one, the slap. Then the second one is going to tone. Then a bass. If I put those three together, I just do dagga-dagga-da. If I repeat, I go faster and I go. Speaker 1: Let's put that again so you can see it now with the accompaniment. Those are some basic solo ideas for the djembe. 2:26
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Beginner Djembe Drum Solos | African Drums

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Djembe Kuku Rhythm 2nd Accompaniment | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513005-Play-the-Djembe-Kuku-Rhythms-Combined-African-Drums Q: We're going to show you the two accompaniment, first and second accompaniment, for kuku with the break. Bimba's going to play the first part. I'm going to play the second part. His drum is higher pitched. My drum is lower pitched. We go from the break so we can put the rhythm together slowly. You'll notice when he gives the break I keep going all the way to the end of the count. So now let's try it again a little faster. Excellent. How do you play it in your country? You play fast? Bimba: I guess it depend on how we play. Sometime you can play fast. Sometime you can play slow. You don't have to everything have to be fast. Some have to be fast, some don't have to be fast. Q: Let's try it fast and see what that sounds like. Bimba: Yeah. Q: That's pretty nice. Bimba: Yeah. Q: That is the two accompaniments for the rhythm we call kuku. 1:53
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Play the Djembe Kuku Rhythms Combined | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513006-How-to-Play-the-Djembe-Kuku-Break-African-Drums So, the bright and cuckoo go all tom. So, this is the first, the bright. I'm go very slowly. This is the first one. So, this is a very slow. So, if I want to go to medium, I'm just going to go a little more fast. Then I go. . . Now, if you want to go fast, fast, I'm just going to go. . . No. Now, to start to play cuckoo. Soon I start to give that break, all musicians know we are going to start to play cuckoo. So, soon as I start the break, the way I start, that's the way everybody is going to come in to start the music. Now, it's the same break make it to start the music is the same break make it to stop. So, this is the break again. . . Then we start. 1:19
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How to Play the Djembe Kuku Break | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513008-How-to-Pick-a-Djembe-Drum-African-Drums If you're interested in getting a djembe drum, how do you know which is the drum to get? Djembe drums are very popular now. They come from many different places. They originate in West Africa, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire (which is Ivory Coast), and Senegal. They make a lot of djembes in Ghana. Then also make djembes in America, Indonesia, China. How do you know which drum to get? Here's my advice. You want to look at the size of the drum. Is it too big for you? Is it too cumbersome? Can you very easily hold it? You want to look at the weight of the drum. Are you carrying the drum around? Or are you just throwing it in the back of your car and it's not too bad? Or are you just keeping it in your house? If you're carrying your drum a lot or you're standing up and playing, you don't want a drum that's too heavy. Please, do not go by just the pitch of the drum. That's very high. That's lower. That's in the middle. Because, the tightening of the drum changes the pitch. I don't choose a drum for myself by the pitch of the drum. I choose a drum by looking to see if it's good quality. The best sounding djembes are one piece of wood, not pieced together and glued together. They should have very high quality rope so that you can tune them well. All of the materials should be well made. If a drum is very, very inexpensive ($100, $50), then you know you're probably buying an inferior instrument which is fine, if that's what you want. But if you want to get a very good quality instrument, it should be solid. Then you go by aesthetics. Do you like the design? Personally, I don't pick a drum by the design. I pick a drum by the size, the quality, and the weight. Those are some tips on how to choose a djembe drum. 2:22
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How to Pick a Djembe Drum | African Drums

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How a Djembe Is Made | African Drums

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How to Play 2 Djembe Drums Together | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513012-Djembe-vs-Conga-African-Drums Speaker 1: This is the difference between the conga and the djembe. If you look closely, you see the conga is a little taller, djembe in this time is a little shorter. The tension on the skin is achieved by the pulling with these metal rods. The djembe is with a rope. Okay? The bass that comes out of this small bottom is played here. Your bass? My tone is played here. Speaker 2: My tone is right here. Speaker 1: My slap has an advance from the tone area to the slap area like this. More center. Speaker 2: So my slap doesn't go in the center. My slap stays into the drum. My slap is like this. Speaker 1:Wow. I hope everybody caught that. We're going to play a little bit for you to show you the color and sound of this wonderful instrument playing with another wonderful instrument. The conga and the djembe. Now you've heard the difference in sound, but there's really not that many differences. You can appreciate the differences in both instruments, the conga and the djembe. 2:16
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Djembe vs. Conga | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513010-How-to-Tune-a-Djembe-African-Drums OK. I'm going to show you some quick tips on how to tune your djembe. These are for rope tuned djembes. The first thing you've got to look is at each strand you're counting as one, so you're going to make a weaving pattern. This is one. This is two. You're going to take your chord, and you're going to go under two, under this one, under this one, and then you're going to pull it across. What we're going to do is weave these two so that we can tighten them by flipping them, and this brings the ring down and tightens your drum. You just want to tighten your drum until you like it. Don't overtighten, because you can pop the skin, and you don't have to tighten into a specific pitch. So I take the strand. If it's too hard for your fingers, you can get a screwdriver or something. I just kind of push it under. It is under one. I go to the second one. Under two. I pull through. Sometimes I put my foot on the drum. It's OK. Here's under two. Now you'll see the chord is under two strands, one, two. We're not quite done. We go under two, over one, under one, so we weave back. Under two, over one, under one, like this. Try to keep the chord straight, and you'll see now that as I start to pull this, I'm pulling those two pieces of rope closer together. Sometimes if the drum is tight, you want to use something like a stick or a mountain climbing cleat to grab the rope if it's really hard to pull. It depends on where you are in tuning the drum. I like to take a stick. I put it over the rope, I go around, and then I turn it, and I do figure eights. This will lock the stick in place. You see? Then, using my feet, I'm going to pull until it flips over. You see? And this is going to tighten your drum. Now, just to make sure it stays, I start the next sequence. I go under the rope just like that, I pull it through, keep it low, and this will help lock it. See? The tension here is holding this rope so it doesn't unsnap. And then you want to check the skin and make sure you're not overtightening. But these are some tips on how to tune your djembe. 3:14
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How to Tune a Djembe | African Drums

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How to Maintain a Djembe | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513013-What-Is-a-Conga-African-Drums Okay everybody, I'm going to give you an overview of the conga. The conga is a drum that actually comes from Cuba, but listen to this. It's really, really from the Congo, okay? These drums that you see in front of me are drums that first originated as molasses barrels. Can you believe that? You know, molasses barrel like how they put molasses in it. The people in Cuba change the molasses barrel to an instrument by putting a skin over it. The first congas had these pins or nails to hold the heads together. If you look here you'll see these kind of hooks that help stretch this animal skin across the top of this chamber. The conga has two openings. It has one at the top that I was playing, and also down here at the bottom. Okay? Over the years it gets fancy, you know? It's a beautiful instrument. I want to show you the sounds of the conga. They are bass, tone, and slap. First the bass. Next the tone. And next the slap. If you have two drums, you have two basses. Two tones. Two slaps. You put all that together, and you start making music. The music of the conga. This has been an overview of the music of the conga. 2:17
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What Is a Conga? | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513014-How-to-Play-an-Open-Tone-on-the-Conga-African-Drums I want to teach you how to play an open tone on the conga. The conga. You start by allowing your hand to hit the top of the conga in a very relaxed fashion. Like this. Always looking at your position, not moving too far into the drum for the open tone, not moving too far to the back because you want to place your hand evenly on the drum in a relaxed fashion. I know you can do it. Let's do it with me. Open tone, next open tone, next open tone, next open tone. Sometimes it will sound a little different, but that's only because your placement is changing. Open tone, really watching where you put your hand when you're striking the drum, like this. The other hand. I'm going to play what is known as a roll of open tones which is tones and tones and tones, and you get the idea. Remember to relax. The more you try, the better will be your result and your outcome. Again, one more time. Open tone, right hand. Left hand. Two hands together, like what they call a flam. Open tone right hand. Open tone left hand. That's how you play an open tone on the conga. 2:15
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How to Play an Open Tone on the Conga | African Drums

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How to Play a Slap Tone on the Conga | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513015-How-to-Play-a-Bass-Tone-on-the-Conga-African-Drums I'm going to show you how to play the bass tone on the conga. The conga. It is played with the whole of your hand, the whole palm of your hand touching the center of the drum like this. Watch me, really relaxed; other hand; or you can do two together. You want to relax when you're playing the conga, like any other instrument. So even though it's physical, you want to play with a certain feeling of movement, like this, the bass note. So if you were playing a lot of them, they sound like this. So that was a tone that I played after the bass. So again, the bass. And that is how you play the bass note on the conga. 1:17
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How to Play a Bass Tone on the Conga | African Drums

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How to Play a Muted Tone on the Conga | African Drums

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How to Play a Shuffle on the Conga | African Drums

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What Is a Dundun? | African Drums

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How to Tune a Conga | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513022-How-to-Play-the-Dundun-Kuku-Rhythm-African-Drums This is how to play the DunDun part for the rhythm Kuku from Guinea West Africa. The DunDun accents and it plays off the beat and inside Kuku you have many variation but we're gonna keep it very, very basic today just so you can get hold of the rhythm and be able to repeat it. The bell starts on 1, hitting the DunDun plays after 1. So if I say 5, 6, 7, 8... I start on the bell, ka, ka and then I hit the drum with the bell. I say 5, 6, 7, 8... And it's really not a lot of notes on the DunDun at first, the basic pattern rides with the bell 5, 6, 7, 8, 1... 1... 1. - A little faster 5, 6, 7, 8, 1. - Hear how is feels a little syncopated? Let's try it a little faster. 5, 6, 7, 8, 1... 1, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 1. Traditional Kuku he DunDun player will look at the dancer and actually improvise a little bit. So I;m gonna play a couple very simple variation, but if you get confused you just stick with the basic pattern. 5, 6, 7, 8, 1... Now... Again, nod every time. And can even get even more creative. 1, 2, 3, 4. - And you just have fun, relax, and this is how you play the DunDun part for Kuku. 3:30
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How to Play the Dundun Kuku Rhythm | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513021-How-to-Play-the-Dundun-African-Drums We're going to show you how to play the dundun, the sangba, and the kankanee [SP]. Each person has one stick and a piece of metal to play the bell. I like to use this, but some people use the straight piece of iron. It doesn't matter, as long as you're using iron on iron. The way I hold it is like this. So the bell can ring. How does yours sound? So each bell is a little different. When I hold my stick just like a drumstick, I'm relaxed. Everyone holds a stick differently. Yeah. I'll hold my stick like this, because everybody has to hold the stick a different way. Everybody's got a different technique. We all play in the middle of the drum, and we come off the drum. Don't press the stick against the skin. We play open like this. The pitches are low, medium, high. So when I play. . . I play with the bell. We stay relaxed. We move the stick off the drum, and that's how the pitches and the dundun, sangba, kankanee drums are played together. This is how to play the dundun, sangba, and kankanee. 2:29
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How to Play the Dundun | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513024-How-to-Play-the-Kalimba-and-Mbira-African-Drums I'm going to show you how to play the kalimba. It is a piece of wood that is mounted on a gourd, like on the top of the bottom of a guitar, to help produce and project the sound. The kalimba, as I turn it around for you, just like with the mbira, is played by a scratching fashion at the end of each one of these metal pieces, which is known as a tong or a key or a note. OK? Turning it back to me, I'm going to play in that fashion and you will hear beautiful sounds. I can play three notes at one time if I use both of my thumbs and my pointer finger, and it gives you a chordal sound. OK? Here's how I play. Isn't that soothing? That is the sound of my kalimba. Now I'm going to play for you mbira. What makes the mbira different than the kalimba is simply that the mbira actually sits inside its sound box. If you were in Zimbabwe, you would say daze, which just means resonator. OK? You play the instrument in that same scratching fashion. With this daze or calabash or sound box, it has a number of bottle caps that help to project naturally the sound of the instrument as you would in an electronic amplifier. OK? So another important note is that my kalimba and this mbira, they have a different note sequence, a different set of notes. So I can play a different song. I can't really play the same song as a kalimba, so I'll show you. OK, I just played some wonderful sounds on the mbira. I want to tell you some additional things. It's with the mbira: if you look very closely, you will see what is called a prop stick. It helps to transfer the resonance from the mbira into the sound box or the daze, so if your prop stick is too loose, it won't give that transference of sound. If it's too tight, it also won't give you the same transference of sound. It'll be muted. You want to find just the right placement of having your mbira sitting in sound, its sound box. So those are some tips on how to play the mbira and the kalimba. 4:30
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How to Play the Kalimba & Mbira | African Drums

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Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDriLbqidWbTYavxdFAAxAMVo - - Cool Essentials for every Drummer: Vic Firth ESB Essentials Stick Bag: http://amzn.to/1EyNtej Zildjian Cymbal Gig Bag: http://amzn.to/1Jyhs2Z Evans 2-Sided Practice Pad: http://amzn.to/1EBnF1i Hearos High Fidelity Earplugs with Case: http://amzn.to/1Nai4Sy Gibraltar SC-4244 Standard Drum Key: http://amzn.to/1JNpkwL Watch more How to Play African Drums videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/513025-How-to-Play-Claves-African-Drums These wonderful instruments are known collectively as Claves, and what they are are two pieces of very resonant hardwood that is used to give timing and color and placement of the music. These are actually made from some kind of rosewood that come from Cuba. How you play the Claves and how you hold the Claves is of the greatest importance. You have to make, like, what is called a resonant chamber to hold the receiving stick, the one that sits in your hand. If you can see from the other side the Claves sits here and there's a little room in my hand that helps to project the sound. Here is the note with the chamber and here is note with no chamber. Now, this set of Claves has an open hole on both ends. Wow! Both ends, which will give you a louder sound. So listen to it played in a proper fashion. Now, if I mute or close one of the holes and hold it towards my body, you notice it has less and less sound, but played in its proper form it is played out like this. Okay, I want to show you another set of Claves that are about 60 or 70 years old that was given to me by an old friend. Same principle. You make a resonant chamber with your hand and you hold it where you don't hit your fingers. Make sure you don't hit your fingers, guys. So and as you see the instruments are a lot lighter in sound. I actually like these better. Yeah! I know this instrument, it looks real easy and it is, but the placement of where you put it in music is very important. And this is how you play the Claves. 2:58
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How to Play Claves | African Drums

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