Learn How To Play Congolese Guitar Techniques | Free Lessons & Notation 

Amazing! There's so much resemblance in our traditional music in Mexico. No doubt we are heavily influenced by African styles. Big hug from MX to you!

Born and raised in Kinshasa Congo 🇨🇩. Just to confirm this is guy spitting facts. I have been learning Guitar and I had bunch of friends they used to play it. Old congolese names as Guitarists : Docteur Nico, Roxy, Manuaku, etc. Later generations : Alain Makaba, Burkinafaso, fi carre, Capitaine flamme (all from the previous Wenge tree), lofombo, Ramasani, etc. Check these names and you will learn more …

Shout out to him showing love to Wes Montgomery, one of the best and from my hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Amazing technique and flavor. And Gracias for the musical history lesson. If you came to Colombia, you would be worshipped as a Champeta God

100% right about how congolese solo guitar has evolved. 👏👏👏

Dude, how do you play like that💪 I'm following keenly how you are playing and I can't help but wonder how dedicated and focused you must have been in order to be that good. Hats off.

Simply powerful breakdown! Awesome explanation! Incredible talent! Thanks.

Wow, my friend and fellow musician Niwel Tsumbu has explained Congolese music so well. I know he's no longer in Congo and playing Soukus etc. he's playing his own music in the Republic of Ireland, Cork. As a saxophonist from South Africa, I played with him. The guitar was my first love of music and hat's why I still admire it. Well done Niwel.

A beautiful style of guitar. I love how he breaks down the differences in styles through the decades and the reason why they change.

I love this..I had no idea the octave ideas in soukous were influenced my Wes Montgomery.... I would love to see a full length documentary about Congolese music.

You come teach music in America 🙏🏽 I never heard a guitar sound so good like this 🔥👌🏾

Really good breakdown of these styles ...mucho gracious

Well explained my brother. Alain Makaba said less notes have more grooves and melodies people can remember. Manuaku or Zaïko style was too hard to play…fellow Congolese guitarist here ❤

Thank you so much. It is so hard to find soukous lessons on the internet

Awsome ! Thanks for the lesson

Genial! Thanks for sharing this. ✊🏾🎶✨🔥

Give this man more subscribers !!

This is gold! Keel it up bro!

You are great!

Great lesson ! Thank you ;-)

I love how at 1:58 he's talking octaves and says.."well that's because of you know why...Wes. Wes Montgomery..." - just like it's a forgone conclusion. Love it.

fantastic!!!!!!!

This is so cool.

Astonishing, gorgeous guitar playing by this awesome man. Holy God, he’s a guitar God himself 😮😮😮

Amazing

Expert!!

Thank you I wanna play this for my mom by November

Nice!! Thnx

Superb lesson 👌

Thanks Sir

this channel is so underrated! great lessons ❤

Super 😮

Amigo gracias por tan magnífica información.... Lo que aprendí hoy confirmo lo que yo pensaba .....los músicos congoleños antiguos eran más profesionales. Mucho más artistas y grandes compositores.....prefiero la destreza y la alegría del soukous de los 80 y 90.....

Reminds me of American fiddle music. I play similarly, but we use a lot of open strings

Wooow❤

Thanks can you make another video of types seben new generation like flamme kapaya

yea!

❤️❤️

I am blown off

Hi! Can you create a tutorial for Marie Jose?

Which pick size is best for playing soukous as it consists of a lot of intervals.

Please could you teach me why the Negro Bantou used to play "One Day Suffer Go Finish?"

This is just absolutely and utterly beautiful. Is this also Hi life guitar?

How to play Loi de Koffi de olomide please.

Wow, very instructive. I enjoyed learning some history on how guitar rhythm has changed from the 70s. Is there a difference between Seben and Soukous music?

Wow.and what about my franco

Please how can we contact the guitarist in this video? Is he in London by any chance?

Can you give the name of the guitarist you mentioned at 3:10 please? I didn't quite catch it.

Niawu roxy

Bro search a guy from Kenya known as king kaka trust me you look alike💯💯💯

Teach a little bit slowly showing figure movements at a slow motion

Man! you have content...but do a basic script...because there is a band you spoke about in the 80's and you didn't say which; (@ 4:55 )maybe it was Zaiko LL? If you script the key points you wont forget! But for sure you know your shit! Kudos! Question, when they say Franco played open chords of only two notes viz old greats like Chuck Berry what do they mean? 🙂btw you're so right...the harder style as played by Diblo fascinates (am crazy about Niawu Tshimpaka, Huit Kilos too) but after a while it is tiring...whereas someone like Japonais plays simpler sweet repetitive licks that just grow on you and I also noticed that he's just VERY SLIGHTLY off the footkick beat...so it gives this feeling of everyone being in such a hurry apart from the lead guitarist who's laid back leading from the rear....unforgettable!

But what key are uuuuuuuuuu before i get crazy lol

I have a guitar but I can't play

they didnt put the slide markers on those tabs, big omision