Conga Drums : Tuning Conga Drums

Tuning a conga drum is mainly done by ear, and tightening the skin creates various keys and sound qualities. Understand how congas are tuned with help from an experienced musician in this free video on percussion instruments.

Expert: Bobby Torres
Contact: www.bobbytorres.com
Bio: Bobby Torres has been on the music scene for more than 40 years.
Filmmaker: Lisa Fenderson

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Entertainment

Tags:

• drums
• conga
• drumming
• musical
• instruments
• percussion

[chimoio100]

nice one! thank you,i like the tip of "listening"to each lug,eminently sensible! i heard it hear first......

[jasoneric]

I like his advice here, he gives some info that other people are not giving about tuning congas. But when he says tune to 'C' or 'G', I wish he gave an example of where to get that C or G note from.

I actually found a middle C note from a piano, a few places online, even one place where I downloaded it. Now I just set the mp3 file to repeat on my computer and im trying to tune to it.

Now I am noticing how I have a really crappy ear for hearing notes! haha. Could also be drum note is hard.

[start1318]

Portland P TOWN !!!!!

[drumkyle]

good video