Djembe Guide: For Beginners and Intermediate Groups (Percussion Guides S.) - Softcover

Thornber, Ianto Guy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0953818101 ISBN 13: 9780953818105

Publisher: Need To Know (Music Publications), 2000

Synopsis

The Djembe Guide is a resource book for anyone involved with the Djembe, from novice players to the leaders and members of intermediate level groups.

The Djembe Guide assumes no prior knowledge of the djembe, or of music, but guides the reader carefully on a deliberate course of learning, from first steps and simple exercises, through easy patterns for small groups, and on to playing genuine West-African multi-part rhythms in a drumming ensemble.

Rhythms and exercises are presented in a clear, easy to understand system, developed specially for this book, combining elements of oral tradition and simple tablature, so you don't have to read musical score.

It includes chapters on the background to this fascinating drum, and its recent rise to popularity outside the homelands of West Africa, and gives advice on finding, tuning, and maintaining a drum of your own.

The Djembe Guide is the product of five trips to West Africa, and more than twelve years of drumming experience by the author in community groups, performance groups, public classes, and in education. With its enclosed CD, simple tablature and profuse illustrations, The Djembe Guide really works to get you drumming, and is the next best thing to a personal tutor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Need To Know (Music Publications)
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0953818101
• ISBN 13: 9780953818105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104