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EntertainmentHow to Play African Drums

Balafon Beginner Techniques

Transcript

I want to share beginning technique for the Baliphone. Thank you. I’ll do that again. That’s one octave. This is technique but softly, it’s not hard. You go softly. See how I hold this tape. You see, I’m not like this because like this with your finger ahead how to be work hit the notes like this? See? That’s the beginning technique of how to play the Baliphone. So when you play Baliphone, you want to play Baliphone, it’s not going to be here. Hopefully the Baliphone, when you hit Baliphone here in the middle, you’re going to have good sound here. See? Perfect. You can hear you lose the sound and then here, you see, the string is here so the note is come from here. Here. That’s why when the Baliphone is played they like to put the microphone here in the front because the sound come here. But for that you’re not going to have sound. You see? In the middle of the wood, you have a good sound. And here you lose the sound. In the middle you’ve got a good sound. Now, if you want to make music with that, that octave C-major octave. Thank you.


Lessons in this Guide

How to Play African Drums with Wula Drum

Balafon Beginner Techniques

How to Play the Balafon

How to Play the Log Drum

What Is a Log Drum?

How to Play African Shakers

How to Play the Shekere

How to Play Claves

How to Play the Kalimba & Mbira

How to Play the Sangba Kuku Rhythm

How to Play the Dundun Kuku Rhythm

How to Play the Dundun

What Is a Dundun?

How to Tune a Conga

How to Play a Shuffle on the Conga

How to Play a Muted Tone on the Conga

How to Play a Slap Tone on the Conga

How to Play a Bass Tone on the Conga

How to Play an Open Tone on the Conga

What Is a Conga?

Djembe vs. Conga

How to Maintain a Djembe

How to Tune a Djembe

How a Djembe Is Made

How to Pick a Djembe Drum

How to Play 2 Djembe Drums Together

How to Play the Djembe Kuku Break

How to Play the Djembe Kuku Rhythms Combined

How to Play the Djembe Kuku Rhythm 2nd Accompaniment

How to Play the Djembe Kuku Rhythm 1st Accompaniment

Advanced Djembe Drum Solos

Beginner Djembe Drum Solos

Djembe Drumming Patterns for Beginners

How to Play Djembe Warm-Up Exercises

How to Play the Flam on Djembe

How to Play Muffled Slaps on Djembe

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