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During my trip to the USA I was lucky enough to visit Lokassa M Bongo, a...
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During my trip to the USA I was lucky enough to visit Lokassa M Bongo, after SCott Shuster introduced me to both him and Ngouma "the Professor".
During the session Lokassa taught me alot about soukous guitar - mi-composé, rhythms, arrangements and more. We also did some composition time.
He showed me plenty of material, including stuff he had done with Kanda Bongo man and the Soukous All Stars.
It was quite amazing to be around someone legendary - a true master of the African guitar.
He made me incredibly welcome, continually putting food out for me, making sure I was ok, and welcomed me as his family. I honestly didn't want to leave to come back to the UK!
I just shot bits of video as and when, most of my time was doing the lesson and learning, I just grabbed video footage as I could get it, rather than going out there to make a "tuition" video so forgive all lighting and framing errors, its just that I shot it in the moment!
During our time together, he was just playing with a beat from the "battery" - the drum machine.
He started improvising around the style for which he is famed, which quickly turned into him showing a typical arrangement for 3 guitars - the RHYTHM based around the root position, the 2nd guitar slightly higher, then the mi-composé too.
It fits together so wonderfully! And within each part there is room to improvise provided it sticks within its role or function in the music.
Also there are more notes in there than I initially hear. Plenty of subtle little notes here and there that you can miss if you arent listening intently for them, and all rooted to the drum rhythm found in so much soukous!
Enjoy!
Many thanks to Scott Shuster once more from tribe.net who really put himself out to get Lokassa and myself together.
Mr.Will
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the great song from makadem about the great barack obama!
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I wonder what that woman and the child on top of the stairs thought when...
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I wonder what that woman and the child on top of the stairs thought when Pierre came dancing by?
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