Courses
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Grooves for gigs
Welcome to Grooves for Gigs, the ultimate course designed for percussionists and musicians eager to master classic rhythms for popular music. Join Michael as he takes you on a musical journey, showcasing not only the conventional playing styles but also pushing the boundaries beyond what’s considered normal. By utilizing modified traditional rhythms, Michael will teach…
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Beginning Congas
How To Play Congas — Beginner Level Conga Drum Course for beginners to advanced players In my conga drum online course, my goal is to provide a comprehensive and inspiring learning experience. I aim to offer a variety of lessons that are both informative and useful, catering to a wide range of situations. Throughout the…
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Intermediate Congas
How To Play Congas — Intermediate Level Conga Drum Course for beginners to advanced players What is Rumba? The name Rumba when referred to in the Folkloric traditional style conga drum world refers to a family of rhythms. The three main rhythms are Yambu, Guaguanco and Rumba Colombia. These three rhythms are also connected to specific…
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Advanced Congas
How To Play Congas — Advanced Level Conga Drum Course for beginners to advanced players In my conga drum online course, my goal is to provide a comprehensive and inspiring learning experience. I aim to offer a variety of lessons that are both informative and useful, catering to a wide range of situations. Throughout the…
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Free Conga Lessons
Delve into our free library of Conga lessons, where we demonstrate a variety of must-know grooves that are popular and essential for your musical journey.
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Learn to Play Bongo
While I have dedicated time and effort to studying and appreciating traditional styles, I am excited to share with you my own interpretations and ideas. It is true that you can find the most common variations anywhere, but my intention is to ignite your creativity and encourage you to explore and create your own unique…
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Learn To Play Shekere
The shekere (from Yoruba Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀) is a Yoruba percussion instrument consisting of a dried gourd with beads or cowries woven into a net covering the gourd. The Shekere originated in Yorubaland, which comprises the countries of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. It was reborn in Cuba as well and known as a Chekere there.
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Djembe Course 01: Beginning Beginner
How To Play Djembe For Beginners The goal of this course is to teach you the basic principles you’ll need to play your drum musically, effectively, and painlessly.Drumming is all about having fun. In this course we will learn some great tools with which to do that!
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Djembe Course 02: Advanced Beginner
How To Play Djembe For Advanced Beginners The goal of this course is to become friends with new rhythms, techniques and exercises. In the last course you learned to make sounds on the drums we will increase your vocabulary and learn some fun compositions. Often in life we might not take to someone at first,…
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Djembe Course 03 : Intermediate
How To Play Djembe For Intermediate Players Now that we have some basic fundamentals, let’s dig in a little deeper. This course will give you an inside look at some rhythms and concepts. With this understanding you can have much more fun with your drumming!
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Djembe Course 04 : Advanced Intermediate
How To Play Djembe For Advanced Intermediate Players This course will show you how to use many of the new tools you have learned and skills you have developed in the prior courses. Now that you have made friends with the basic principles it’s time to explore a little outside the box. We will look…
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Djembe Course 05 : Advanced
How To Play Djembe For Advanced Player These lessons are all much longer than the previous ones and range from between 15 minutes to 22 minutes. We are going to take it up several notches and dig in much deeper! In this course I will take you deeper into the heart of West African drumming…