I just want to thank you Mr. Harding. I'm in the process of picking up the Djembe and I've found your tutorials to be awesome for beginners. Your rhythms are simple, well-explained, and you generally give several drumming patterns to choose from. You've made it easy for me to keep coming back to practice! Cheers!
As a guitarist, I find it interesting and educational to practice drum styles on a guitar with muted strings, using the picking hand to articulate drum riffs. This really helps to bring rhythmic interest into lead and rhythm guitar playing. Thanks.
This rhythm is used in North Africa as a trance rhythm. It is sometimes called zar and sometimes called ayyub. When it is used for trance it is played very slowly sometimes for hours and then sped up to a very fast rhythm at the end. It is also used in a lot of middle eastern music.
@OneDrumBum Thanks for the comment, and I understand where you're coming from. However, it is ancient practice to speak drum rhythms. Lots of teachers do it, and many students find it helpful.
Don't mind deoriginals MelodicArts you are playing it correctly. I am also came from and raised in west African culture where they play calypso and soca.
How do you play it, deoriginalsmalls? I'm always interested in learning new ways. As I've said before, I learned this way from David Thaiw from Senegal. It is by far the easiest of the many ways of playing this rhythm, so easy for beginners.
Thanks, salsolo1. Yes, it does sound more like soca to me than calypso, but I learned it from a Senegalese drummer, David Thaiw, and calypso is the name he gives it, so I'm honouring his tradition. Keep on playing!
Calypso is not from W. Africa,, it has roots in Yoruba ,and Congo traditions , same as Rumba ,but is not from Cuba, it is from Trinidad. You can play it that way, but actualy the low note goes where you're putting the open tone, and is accented Its not a djembe rhythm The accent is the most important part of the phrase, which is why the embellishment is on the front ( down beat) not the back ( upbeat), It's important to understand rhythms in the context from which they come .Listen to this to hear how it works ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--mRXZGv2rnk.html
@@bruceharding7542 Calypso is a traditional rhythm, but not from Senegal , I studied with the lead drummer of the National Ballet of Senegal among others . The same rhythmic isomorphs show up in probably hundreds of rhythms But Calypso is a rhyhtm/dance/song form from Trinidad , a modern social form- that is it is not a ceremonial form. The term master gets used too loosely in the US .Properly , in regards to drumming it means one who knows all the rhythms including all parts) and dances, how they fit together,and when ,where and for whom they are played. In old cutures this has seasonal applications, different age peer groups do different dances, there are specific deities events etc. Kaiso ,which is the Nigerian/Kongo root of Calypso was played for harvest. In the Senegal/Mali/Guinea/ Burkino drum cultures every village has their own variations. Rhythms names with -don at the end - Maracadon for instance - mean dance of the' fill in the blank' people, which generally means it is someone else's rhythm ,and I have a number of times encountered musicians who say- oh ,well those guys don't actually play that correctly... It is crucial when learning traditional rhythms to ask: Where it's from, what it's for, how does it fit the dance , what do the words mean. I knew some people who were playing a rhythm for a circumcsion ritua as a joyous party thing.
