Haha Sunun, you played it on other vidéo "one of my fav.." and i did analyse it already. It's a realy enjoying rythm to play and feel. But always nice to hear about your explainations and to play with you on different tempos 👍 thanks again for your sharings, its on the spirit of Mamady's legacy and wishes (Rip)
A question about playing flams on djembe. Which hand accents the actual beat and which one is little early or late in case one plays it as played here starting on beat 1, with the right hand being the dominant one? My background was battery drumming before I started to play djembe, and there the flams are thought and played also as two strokes ofcourse, but consist from one strongly accented stroke and second one which is more subtle and which is always played before the strong one that marks the accent in rhythm... When observing and listening to djembefolas, I got the impression that the flams are played and metricaly used little differently: 1. Both strokes are played equally strong. 2. There is no notes played before where actual accent is, rather only on the accent and second one falls after it. 3. The hand starting position height with djembe folas when playing flams is almost always at the same height level, but with drumers, hands starting position is always at two different height levels. :-) Quite interesting differences..
I think you've answered the question! I agree generally both strokes in a flam are played equally strong in djembe language, no matter if you lead with your dominant hand or the other. I usually interpret flams as a single note. When it comes to point number 3 I guess the hand that will play the accent needs to go higher for some drummers in order to get more leverage and play it louder. Nice observation!
@@djembe.studio Yes, its about the leverage when it comes to drum flams, but also practicality. If both hands start to drop at the diferent heights at the same time with the same speed, they will "automatically" make flam. With djembe flam, where both hands start at the same level, this principle can' t be aplied and is not needed, because both hands play equally strong accents. One of the hands must therefore fall with different speed, or more likely, it has to start somewhat behind the other. 🙂 Thank you for your response. Keep up with great videos you make!
