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	<title>Michael Pluznick &#187; drum</title>
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		<title>How To Play A Conga Solo By Yourself With A Band</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2012/01/14/how-to-play-a-conga-solo-by-yourself-with-a-band/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A conga student asked me recently, "how do I take a solo when I am playing with a band and the band stops, and I am left by myself? No one else is playing, it is just me"? This is a great question and here is how I do it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming a drummer, &#8220;where do I fit in&#8221; some tips on finding balance</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/08/13/becoming-a-drummer-where-do-i-fit-in-some-tips-on-finding-balance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you are a beginer or perhaps you have been drumming a while. A challenge or problem that we all face at one time or another in our drumming life is "where do I fit"? What is the type of music I really want to play and who are the people that I want to play with or learn from? Do I want to freestyle or play traditional music? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the new MP Eco Pro 12&#8243; and 13&#8243; wood djembe drums</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/07/22/introducing-the-new-mp-eco-pro-12-and-13-wood-djembe-drums/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/07/22/introducing-the-new-mp-eco-pro-12-and-13-wood-djembe-drums/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After field testing and working closely with the Drum Factory and Ed Balma in Ubud, Bali for over a year we now have two new beautiful prototype MP Eco Pro wood djembe models ready for the market, a 12 " and a 13" (6ocm and 65cm) ! They will be distributed in the USA by X8. It's been a long and windy road bringing these drums to fruition but here they are. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going beyond the drum circle; learning to play your drum correctly</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/06/18/going-beyond-the-drum-circle-learning-to-play-your-drum-correctly/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/06/18/going-beyond-the-drum-circle-learning-to-play-your-drum-correctly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have just been to your first drum circle and you are fully charged up and excited to play drums. Or maybe you have been to several drum circles or drumming events. It was fun and exciting to play your drum with other people. You want to do it more and more. So what happens next? Maybe you are having fun playing in your home to a CD, DVD, iTunes or by yourself at the beach. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studying West African drumming in Mali part one</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/06/16/studying-west-african-drumming-in-mali-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/06/16/studying-west-african-drumming-in-mali-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first trip to Africa was to Mali ,West Africa. I was always scared to go to Africa even though all my friends and students had already gone and the reports were always very positive. I was scared of getting sick. I heard the horror stories of people getting sick there, the poor hospitals, bad conditions and everything else. But in the back of my mind since I first started playing in the 70's I knew I would go, I knew I had to go. I was just waiting for the right timing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a djembe solo and the four types of djembe solos</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/06/15/what-is-a-djembe-solo-and-the-four-types-of-djembe-solos/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/06/15/what-is-a-djembe-solo-and-the-four-types-of-djembe-solos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love to play djembes and I also love to study the music we make with djembes. Djembe soloing is a very small part of djembe music as a whole. The djembe is a communal drum and is about community and unity. We all (myself included) get caught up in being the soloist as it is so much fun! But keep in mind that it is about a whole group of people, musicians,dancers and others, too!  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My new DVD, How to Play Afro Cuban Congas has been released today on earthcds.com</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/06/02/my-new-dvd-how-to-play-afro-cuban-congas-has-been-released-today-on-earthcds-com/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/06/02/my-new-dvd-how-to-play-afro-cuban-congas-has-been-released-today-on-earthcds-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest instructional DVD, "How to Play Afro Cuban Congas" has just been relased today on earthcds.com. This DVD features almost everything I have learned in the last 25 years or more studying, learning, teaching and performing conga drums around the world. There is in depth looks at all the major rhythms with break down sections, slow motion and different vantage points as well. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Pluznick teaches Zaouli break into Kuku djembe solo on Toca Stage Series Pro wood djembe</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/03/03/toca-artist-michael-pluznick-teaches-zaouli-break-into-kuku-djembe-solo-on-toca-stage-series-pro-wood-djembe/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/03/03/toca-artist-michael-pluznick-teaches-zaouli-break-into-kuku-djembe-solo-on-toca-stage-series-pro-wood-djembe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toca artist and Toca endorsee Michael Pluznick shows the fun Zaouli break and Kuku solo technique for djembes and dunun on Toca Stage Series Pro wood djembe and Toca Freestyle Djundjuns. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When and when not to play drums</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/01/21/when-and-when-not-to-play-drums/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Respect yourself, respect others. Sometimes if you are new to an area and trying to break into an unfamiliar world music scene or drumming situation a subtle approach is better then an aggressive approach.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing cold at a hot gig in Bali, Indonesia</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/01/18/playing-cold-at-a-hot-gig-in-bali-indonesia/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/01/18/playing-cold-at-a-hot-gig-in-bali-indonesia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you do when you are completely cold and suddenly have to play hot? Last night the islands best trumpet player performed with his band at Bali's version of Yoshis called interestingly enough, Ryopshi's! Any coincidence? Great sushi and great tunes. Rio Sadik, the trumpet player, singer and "star of the show", ( as James Brown would say), was in rare form. The venue was so packed you could not move. Raymond, my impromptu agent and good friend here in Bali, Indonesia called his long time pal Rio earlier to confirm me sitting in but I think I got there way to late and there was already another conga player there. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having a hard time learning hand drums or djembe?</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/01/11/having-a-hard-time-learning-hand-drums-or-djembe/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/01/11/having-a-hard-time-learning-hand-drums-or-djembe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[f you are like any of us that have been around the ethnic or world drumming and music scene for many years, then you may have experienced some hard times trying to learn the drumming, percussion or music from another culture. Please don't get discouraged if you are trying to learn drumming and are having a hard time. For some of us it never comes easy. And it does take time. When we first hit a drum we thought it was going to be easy! We heard a pleasing sound at once, and we played a rhythm and thought we had it all right then in there. But once you start to study you get to see it is quite involved. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dress casual</title>
		<link>http://michaelpluznick.com/2011/01/09/dress-casual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few nights ago I was invited to play congas and percussion at a nice sushi and jazz club in Legion, Bali where I am teaching drums, performing and visiting right now. The jazz club is very similar to Yoshi's in the bay area of San Francisco and Oakland, California (in the USA). I had eaten dinner downstairs before during the day, but never been into the music section of the establishment. [...]]]></description>
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