Drissa Kone

Madu Jakite (dunun), Drisa Kone (djembe solo) and Kasim Kuyate (djembe acc.) play the rhythm sumalen. Bamako, February 2006.

http://www.ias.uni-bayreuth.de/en/research/zz_timing_of_djembe_rhythms/index....

Category:

Music

Tags:

• djembe
• dunun
• mali
• bamako
• drissa
• kone
• madu
• jakite
• kasim
• kuyate
• percussion
• percussions
• mande

[tylerwyler77]

A toddler can play all 88 notes on a piano. To properly play the three basic "notes" on a djembe requires years of practice. I spent 2 hours a day for two years before my sound could appropriately speak the language.. I have played many other instruments; strings, brass, piano, percussion, and otherwise, and I assure you that it is not "easy to play those drums." This man is a master musician, and your disrespect comes across as being culturally insensitive at best.

[bolonsky]

Don't say it's easy - this is a master playing. Better shut your mouth and listen.

[HumanRemodeling]

Wow! this music has notes that it seems I can't even hear, but only feel.... It moves.... and it does something to my being, my brain feels more tuned up

[SaulTaveras]

hehehheheeh very very nice balance that feels very good!!!!

[djembeweaver]

If you want to read up on uneven pulse structures google "Rhythmic Feel as Meter: Non-Isochronous Beat Subdivision in Jembe Music from Mali" This piece is analysed towards the end of the article. Interestingly these guy's control of the micro-timing is below the proposed threshold of perception! That shoud put to bed any debate over whether this is easy or difficult to play.

[djembeweaver]

This rhythm is very difficult, even if it does sound simple to the untrained ear. If you got 3 non-africans to play exactly the same rhythms it would sound nothing like this. The reason is that this putative 6/8 has a very unusual feel (or swing) insofar as it has an uneven pulse structure. In this case the 3 pulses in each beat are warped to make a long first pulse followed by two variable length pulses.

[PianoPopular]

6/8

[yagareta]

yep there is allways some or culturaly iliterate ones that talk about stuff that is too complex even when it sounds aparently simple, tooooo many ignorants opening their mouth about what they aint got a clue.......easy to spot an ignorant if they open their crap holes

[mdinka]

@MarijnvdZaag it's really not difficult to follow the beat concentrate on the guy with the green hat on the right and just tap the opens he is playing (not the bass). and see what the small drum is doing.

dundunDUN teh dundun teh

the last dun of the dundunDUN is the 1 simultaneously hitting the beat with the open. I think the guy on the right is left handed.

[AlMandingo]

@sXeBrutis Try to do same..

I want to see your videoi with the same rhythm and same solos..

Good Luck!

[James789op]

@MarijnvdZaag I played with an master in a music workshop this week and we played in different signature such as 7/8 and 5/4, which i've never tried before, if you go over it over and over, counting each beat , you will eventually get it. What we done was like a fusion between many styles of music, I was playing on a drum kit most of the time which was even more difficult when you have your comfort zone set in stone. Persistance is the key

[MarijnvdZaag]

Great, but... how does the beat go? I think it's a 6/8 and you should start counting at the third beat of the doun. Anyone know if I'm right? I love this kinda music but it's pretty hard to understand if you're used to western 4/4 stuff :(