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CALYPSO (Trinidad-Tobago) Basic Calypso Rhythm Conga Conga O

Cha Cha Cha: Another dance that is very popular in this country in the club scene and even in international ballroom dancing as well as the Latino dance scene is the Cuban dance known in English as the...

Composed Rhythms of Ostad Nasser Farhangfar Peyman Nasehpour © 2002 Abstract Tonbak (a kind of goblet drum) is the chief percussion skinned instrument of Persia. Great masters of tonbak, especially...

Pete Lockett looks at the Rhythms of the Maghreb and how to clap properly Most people have quite a vague idea of the specifics of African drumming. If you were asked what the distinction...

Conga Maintenance Conga drums are quite strong and stable and do not normally require a lot of maintenance. Conga heads are usually made of cowhide or water buffalo hide and are quite thick and strong....

Introduction to Ben Jacoby's Conga Book The following is a collection of information and miscellaneous lore that the author has collected from a variety of teachers and sources including "being shown...

BOX NOTATION We will be using what has become more or less a standard "tablature" notation for hand-drums. A measure or two of the rhythmic pattern is divided into boxes where each box represents an eighth...

Drumset drums: The parts. Drumset drums are really rather simple devices. They consist of only a few parts see our glossary website Drumbits.com. These are the heads, the rims, the tension...