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EntertainmentHow to Play African Drums

Djembe Drumming Patterns for Beginners

Transcript

We wanna show you some good patterns there are for beginners, for the djembe drums, from West Africa.

For me, my favorite one is to play 3 tones and 5 slaps, but instead of playing them straight I’m 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. I play 3 tones, then I play 5 slaps. Tone, slap. An then I put it together and I let it breath. Helps me keep time and helps me feel the swing of the West Africa music. When I’m comfortable I can go faster. I can play faster. Even faster. That’s my favorite hand pattern.

So my, I have a different one, different idea. How to help you very begging, how to do the thing you get it. So my, I can start with the tone, then I can go the slap, then I can go to bass. So if I do all that together, I can do, then I go to slap, then one bass. If I want to go slow, if a want to go a little more faster I can go. If I want to go fast. This is it, djembe power for the beginners.


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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