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How to Play Conga Drums : Conga Drum Hand Positioning

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Uploaded by on Jun 14, 2008

Hand position is very important when playing the conga drum. Learn more about using hand position to achieve a good sound on the conga drum with tips from a professional conga drum player in this free music lesson video.

Expert: Johnny Conga
Contact: www.myspace.com/jcjohnnyconga
Bio: Johnny Conga has been performing on the conga drum for over 40 years.
Filmmaker: Curtis Enlow

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  • well to be exact the name of the drum from Africa, similar to the Conga drum was called "Ngoma"(it has pegs) drum..but the Conga drum itself was reinvented in Cuba..."JC" Johnny Conga

  • FANASTIC!!! thank you so much for offering these lessons,I've found all your lessons very informative and helpful and look forward to more on YouTube.

    Sonny B

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  • @biancayciro nah, they need to be short on one hand for guitar.

  • do I have to grow out my fingernails too?

  • @drummer265 HI! MAYBE BECAUSE HE¨S ALSO A GUITAR PLAYER... DON¨T YOU THINK?

  • you couldnt be further from the truth with me....and my nails are for my ears!....

  • long nails are some kind of bohemian jazz counterculture signal to the world that they are cool hipsters that also have a mortgage, a chevy car payment, and a fat wife that bitches at them to stop pounding on the conga and take the lab for a walk and dont forget to scoop up the pile of shit that it drops on the neighbors front yard..

  • why do old people never cut their fuckin' nails?

  • u suck...!!!

  • How does one contact the person doing this demonstration? I don't see a link for email. I'd like to know if he sells instructional DVD's. I haven't seen any commercial instructional DVD's I like. I enjoy these brief lessons, but being on dial up, I'll be 80 or 90 before I get them all to load. Thanks for a response.

  • cant get more anal and retarded than this congahead

  • Mikesca, you should take your own advice. If you go to Cuba, and speak to ethnomusicologists or percussion masters over there, they will inform YOU that when the African slaves came to Cuba they were not allowed to bring their drums with them, so they had no choice but to try and recreate the drums they once played in Africa. So, you've got tumbadoras which are only BASED on drums from the Congo. But no authority on the subject would dispute that the tumbadoras are distinctly Cuban.

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