Lori Cotler Sings Konnakol (Drum Language) with Percussion Legend Glen Velez (Riq)

[allowcreate]

You know people.....she's right.....about what she's saying and all....

[apiarygirl]

My students in elementary music really grooved on this!

[Nigriff]

She's "taking" air. . . with lots of practice and precision.

[musicman387]

I want what she's taking.

[Hundewanderer]

I recently acquired the Glen Velez CD titled Rhythms Of Awakening, and when I heard the song "Misra", I thought, I have to see this, and here is it on YouTube, thank you so much for sharing this delightful song.

[zoreastre]

This is amazing!

[ElFinShaman]

I love your passion and precision, as always!

[monica61036103]

You are my favorite musician, your performance was excellent on Taipei ,Taiwan .

[jasonmorantfan]

This is amazing. Every time I need a lift in spirits, I watch this video. It makes my day. Thanks for being such an inspiration to me! I am looking forward to seeing you in concert soon! Keep up the good work!

[RBdrumguy]

Lori and Glen, you are amazing! Every time I need a reason to smile I watch this video. Thanks!

[hoboTy96]

MY SINGING HERO!!!!!!!!!!

[danyspecial]

simply fantastic! So fast!!!

[nayahri]

Damn that was cool. Loved it!

[ccbabygirl]

The amazing Glen & Lori ! I can't wait to see you with the Glen Velez Frame

Drum Ensemble on Sept. 26, 9:30 pm at 'Alwan for the Arts, NYC'

[irishghetto]

Flipping Fantastic!!!!!

[kanicello]

amazing. if you can play what you sing, imagine what you could play if you could sing like this... i can only begin to imagine.

[BradleyJonSanders]

AMAZING!!! Both of them are absolutely amazing!!!

[drhbettathanu]

i could NEVER roll my tounge that fast

[scruffygeek]

representing south india!! yeah few people know of indian percussion besides the overused tabla backbeat you'd hear on some underground techno mix (e.g. thievery corporation)

easily the most complex form of percussion. all the different enunciations from her mouth symbolize different strokes one can use in hitting a tabla, depending on the drum (of which there are two),finger, angle, placement on the head, etc...

[Matanui2005]

wtf...this is cool

[BLaiaiprincess]

it gets faster and FASTER...!! o.o

[jefforysanders]

te means right ka means left for many mid-eastern drum beats.

amazing she can vocalize each beat so percussively and still ununciate them all so clearly.

[julian1000]

In our 7th grade geography class we listened to something very much like this.

I think what it is is that in other countries where drums are a very important instrument they have a scale much like our "do,re,mi" scale for singing. So, she calls out the notes and the drum player does something similar to it.

But I'm not sure. The audio we listened to was SO cool it was just a guy and he said like "ta ti di da dadadadititadi da... ti" and then played it right afterwards, super cool.

[DjArash102]

WTF?? sounds cool tho^^

[jackelias2323]

wtf!!!!! haha this is awesome

[ashhsmashh]

weird...but it mezmerized me enough to watch the whole thing

[jbjrrocks]

yeah when me or anyone on my Drumline is trying to explaina part to eachother instead of playing it we speak it. Very hard to understand for nonmucians. Her subdivisions are perfect and have almost the exact same tonal quality. A+

[chadmanman11]

sweet!

[RangedAhrim]

holy jesus!!! nice

[TalonsOfPeace]

Her subdivisions are amazing. I'd bet she's a tabla master.

[windsister]

Does anyone realize just how friggin HARD that is?? She's able to keep perfect beat in her hands and improvise....On TIME.  Amazing.

[cindyluloo]

that was kool

[afgr173]

impresive

[Lucian1905]

Niceee

[PAINTBALR4LIFE]

cool

[zafirocarlos]

ESTE VIDEO ESTUVO BUENISIMO

[daramnation]

also known as solkattu.

[daramnation]

Bingo! Absolutely right.

[c4mc4st]

human beatbox language :D

[StakeJade]

That was awesome! Looked hard, though.

[drummeryan337]

That's kind of weird...

[reconfigurine]

I am soooo stoned.

[daramnation]

actually, her solfa syllable system is closer to the southern indian (carnatic) language, specifically, as applied to the mridangam. to hear some great mridangam solos, look up Palghat Mani Iyer, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman and also Karaikudi Mani. To those who left a message about it being Tabla syllables, good recognition, but the fundamental difference is that in the tabla system Da and Dhin represent muted and unmuted bass sounds. In carnatic system, Dheem, Dhom, Jheem are prevalent.

[lnzechaos]

cool stuff!

[Zharx91]

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AWESOME 5/5

[humilde7777]

Awesome, Awesome and well Awesome.

[mrmojorisin571]

Pretty goddamn impressive polyrhythms.