Korean Buddhist Monk Drumming Contest
- Do not know when was it, sometime mid 2000s.
- Although Korean most of traditional rhythms are based on 3 beats or 5 beats or complex beats structure, Korean Buddhist monk's drumming, which has being played every morning and evening ceremony at the temple, is in 2 or 4 beats structure.
- It is because that 3 or 5 beats usually contains "delicious emptiness" among pulses and typical "Korean bouncing groove". So, those rhythmic groove has a bigger possibility of "being emotional".
- Compare to that, Korean monk's drumming delivery on 2 beats are not bouncing but "spreaded", not emotional but "spiritual" as the purpose of drumming is for "rescueing suffered being(especially "animals") in the world".
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