Djembe Drum Patterns

I play 3 tones then i pl.

Vtech kidibeats drum set toy drums musical toy learning toy 341776134400. Djembe rhythms this site offers tools and insights to help you learn understand and play traditional west african drum beats especially the djembe jembe and dunun dundun rhythms of guinea. Tim says january 4 2014 at 122 am. Since we play djembe with both hands lets use the above for the right hand and call the left hand version dun do ta.

Drum circles tagged with. For the djembe the primary notes are bass tone and slap. Patterns for more than 1 djembe player played together with another drummer pattern 1 djembe 1 r6t rb lrt 6bb t tt djembe 2 3sb3sb3sb3sb3sb3sb3sb3sb pattern 2 djembe 1 3bt3bbt djembe 2 3sb3s pattern 3 djembe 1 3tt33bb3 djembe 2 3st3bbt3st3bbt.

Use of drum breakssignals to set tempos and to indicate the starting and ending of rhythms. Watch this video to learn a couple of easy drum circle patterns that will give you confidence. Consequently the notation will not specify any tempo and the stroke pattern will look the same at any tempo.

There are no tempo signatures in djembe font notation. For me my favorite one is to play 3 tones and 5 slaps but instead of playing them straight im 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. Djembe drum circle rhythms djembe technique hand drumming technique.

Historical and cultural background. You can mimic these sounds by saying gun go pa. I share with you what i have learned in over 20 years of study with master drummers and from performance in many drum circles jams bands and dance.

Their parts and polyrhythmic relationships. African drum rhythms can be played at any tempo depending on the context and the circumstances. Kalani shows you two djembe patterns for the rhythm arrangement of moribayassa.

On the djembe and the traditional rhythms presented. The notation line always begins with the so called one.