How To Play West African Drums : Playing Slap Sounds on Djembe African Drums

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Uploaded by on Mar 25, 2008

How to play the slap sounds on Djembe African drums; get professional tips and advice on playing traditional West African percussion instruments in this free music lesson video.

Expert: Michael Markus
Contact: www.magbana.com
Bio: Michael Markus is the owner of Magbana Drum & Dance in New York City, where he is a professional performer and teacher of intermediate and beginner African Drumming.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller

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  • good video although a better mic would make these videos very good.

  • Haha, the sound is painful, I hope no one sees this as their intro to Djembe.

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  • The sound is terrible. Makes the drum sounds awfully like smacking the bottom of a big tin can.

  • WTF MY EARS :@

  • Baaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Yo from the Goat, baby!!! GO NYC!!!! Michael - you are my first djembe teacher and you are one bad-ass mo' fo'!!!! Much love to you!!!!

  • Notes of Slap, Par Tar

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