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Conga Drumming: A Beginner's Guide to Playing With Time W/ CD |
Author: Dworsky
Published: 1994 |
List price: $24.95
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As of: November 23rd, 2008 03:38:31 PM
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 I like it, but watch the notation!
This is the beginner book I used, and I like it. It covers a good range of basic conga patterns to a medium level of difficulty. Be aware that it cannot, and does not pretend to cover all Latin music styles as it relates to conga. For a beginner, that should not be an issue unless you are interested in something unusual, like the folklorico drumming adapted from bata, or perhaps are only interested in learning one style in depth.
The CD is enormously helpful. In fact, it's laughable sometimes to try to work through a new pattern without listening to the corresponding CD track first. Guaranteed you will not have the emphasis or attack right!
I also fully agree with another reviewer that the notation is so good that I've adopted it for my own use. The downside is that this is NOT commonly-used notation for congas. As a result, when you pick up other conga books, you will have to adapt. That's not enough of a barrier to keep someone from this book though, and I should also point out that conga notation isn't exactly standardized anyway.
Doesn't use standard notation
Great Conga book. Was recommended to me by others. The only thing that I don't like about this books is that it doesn't use standard notation.
Excellent introductory book
I found this book invaluable for learning the basics of conga drumming without a teacher. I used it for several months before hitting my first conga class, and was really glad I had worked with the book. I was able to pick up right away with the rest of the class on several of the rhythms. However, I will warn anyone using the book that this drumming world is steeped with "variations". That is, you'll frequently find that your teacher is using a slightly different variation than the one taught in the book. This is fine, however, since it's usually easy to alter what you're doing slightly.
One of the more impressive aspects of the methods in this book is the holistic approach, for example, teaching how to feel the clave underneath the rhythms you're playing. The book also does about as good a job as any book can at teaching the hand technique, although I highly recommend complementing this with good videos of accomplished conga players. Youtube, for example, is a great resource. Here again, though, you will find different philosophies of technique, and again your teacher may have his own emphasis.
Almost everything you'd ever need to play conga
This book is extremely readable and it teaches you terrific grooves right from the get-go. I'm a pianist who has decided to learn some percussion and I am having a blast learning to play the conga. Even my non-musician girlfriend has learned some of this stuff!
Love the book; like their notation
I agree with all the other reviewers... this is a great book for beginners and advanced (as well as folks somewhere in the middle, like me).One thing I didn't expect to like, since I can read regular music notation, was their concocted music notation. To my surprise, I like theirs better. It's very intuitive, and after a while, you can pretty much sight-read the rhythms. If I hear/see a conga pattern I like in the future, I'll probably write it down using their notation.
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