Answer to "Djembe beginner lesson"

I was ask, how i would play the Rhythm in the video "djembe beginner lesson".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEOCH9gpBas

This is my way to play. Please notice: I am a left hand player, that means, I start with the left hand, if u a right hand player start just with right.

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[TassoumaKono]

this is not to play djembe.

[djembegrobi]

@TassoumaKono so you are one of these people who say "there is only one way to play an intrument", okay it's your opinion. BUT I think it's an Intrument so I can play it in the way I feel good with it. We talk about music and there is no "right or false" . The Djembe is a wonderful Instrument with big traditions. I'm mot an african and of course I can't play like africans. I would never say that my style is traditional, it's My style and I like it. Peace.

[comibama]

The video you're responding to has a slightly different rhythm. The original beat goes like this: 1 - - a 2 e & a 3 - & - 4 - - -

Whereas, the beat in this video is: 1 - - - 2 e & a 3 - & - 4 - - - The "a" of the 1 beat is missing in your version, which changes the feel a bit, because it anticipates the 2 beat. Also, you are wasting too much energy on the silent ghost motions. Eventually you can just keep the same sticking and drop the extra movement, which will enhance endurance & speed.

[djembegrobi]

@comibama thank you, you're right. I missed a tone. In the next time I will listen more exat before I response a video. Cheers.

[rafael46]

primeiro tome aula aprenda a tocar pra depois tentar ensinar

[djembegrobi]

@rafael46 I don't know your language, but I think I know what you want to tell me. This in NOT a lesson how to play whatever. Wonderwebb asked me and I made this video.

[Matisha81]

@djembegrobi I'm with you on this one. I play djembe with a small group and when we started out we would only play traditional African rhythms like we had been taught to, but lately we're more beginning to develop our own style, and it's getting less African every time. I think it suits us better, seeing as we're just a bunch of white Dutch gals. :P

Tradition is good, but music should also be allowed to progress and change in time. That's the great thing about music after all!

[TassoumaKono]

@djembegrobi

You are right. We can use the same istrument for giving our interpretation and express ourself. I love doind experiments to!!

BUT you have wrote in the title "DJEMBE BEGINNER LESSON" and i think that when you teach Djembe, or an other instrument you must show the real tecnic and not interpretations. Interpretation is not for beginners. This is not a djembe lesson, but a rithm lesson on a djembe.

Doing like this you people that watch this video think something wrong about djembe,

[DaisiKellermann52]

Grab the audio from this tune at searchripgrab doht cohm.

[jessiethe3rd]

Thanks.