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How to Play Djembe (Book/CD set) |
Author: Alan L. Dworsky
Published: 2000-02-15 |
List price: $24.95
Our price: $16.47
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Book is great, CD is pretty good
As a beginner I find the book to be very good, it breaks everything down and gives you steps to learn the patterns. I would give the book a 5 star rating.
The CD is pretty good. The first song, Kuku, is easy to play along with as are some of the others. But on some of the songs, the patterns are played too fast, and I could not keep up, I even had trouble hearing all the drum beats. It would have been very helpful to me if the patterns were played more slowly at first.
The final 5 tracks, Jaguar at Half Moon Lake (parts 1-5), are nice, there is music, singing and drumming. But, I would have preferred something in the style of what was taught in the book, maybe even the same songs that were taught with a full drum circle.
 Simple, Understandable
Great intro book. Easy to understand. Great practice drills that you can start playing in very little time.
Fun!!!
This is a great way to learn. I really enjoyed it. The DVD is an excellent addition to learning to play and the CD with it helps you to hear what is being played so you can match it.
Great for the basics!
This book/CD set has given me a couple of things I could not get from taking drum classes. First of all, it documents--in written notation and in sound--the basic rhythms. Even the best drummers are not always the best teachers, so before I got this book, the rhythms were kind of a mishmash in my head. Now I am getting to the point where I can hear & identify them.I also could not produce a slap tone at all until I saw the drawing of the hand/finger positions for it in this book--again, because people cannot always explain things well, or different people tell you different things. This book is a great SUPPLEMENT to lessons and drum circles--I'd say you need both the book/CD and drumming with others to really learn and retain the information. Oh, and the section on "How to Tune Your Djembe" is really a great thing to have.
Solid lessons for beginners
This book teaches you the basics of Djembe drumming. The book includes a great sounding CD to play along with. However; the authors should have included more complex patterns and rhythms. But, with only 1-2 hours per day of practice for a month, you will probably surprise yourself with how much you have improved.
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