Lesson in Afro Beat for Bongo

Samba and merengue to follow. The Afro beat is a critical pattern not found in salsa but ESSENTIAL in understanding how to play in the Afro Cuban tradition. First popularized by Chano Pozo, Armando Peraza, Mongo Santamaria and Francisco Aguabella.




Matt Dubuque

Category:

Music

Tags:

• bongo
• Africa
• Santiago
• Cuba
• conga
• Oriente
• Afro-Cuban
• Peraza

[gaspicanalla]

como es la cancion

[mdubuque]

ta benito eh by arsenio rodriguez

[network909]

really cool! Crispy sound... I'm always afraid to tune my bongos to that point =(

[mdubuque]

That's OK. Start with higher quality skins, bring them up high with your tuning, then lower them after playing.

It's a good time...

matt

[snrbaires]

This only strengthens my case that in order to learn any musical instrument well one has to first master the fundamentals.  The rest falls into place eventually after putting in the hours of practice.

Your instruction is practical, succinct and most importantly intuitive.

I prefer the no-frills approach here to overwhelming me with too much info.

[mdubuque]

Agreed. Learning music is learning a language. Children need to speak one and two word utterances and to pronounce them correctly before writing novels.

Matt

[Steadno]

very cool

[Dutchmeistermusic]

nice playing man!!

[hinduw]

finally, someone that knows how to actually play the bongos

[texDAMIAN]

Thank you. That was very helpful.

I hope some day I can play like that.

[eldernan]

Muito boa essa aula

Muito obrigado amigo.

[chessdude67]

Matt,

Thank you for the lesson. I was a drum set player for many years, and many gigs.

Now, I want to get in hand drumming. I am left handed, so it was good to see your video.

I hope you make more for the love of music.

peace.

Tim

[nss68]

i play my bongos left handed too, but i am right handed

[DarulSakti]

why is the sound like darbuka????