3 Essential Djembe/Hand Drum Rhythms for Beginner/Intermediate Level Players
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
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In this video we cover 3 essential djembe rhythms that will help take your hand drumming to higher level. These hand drum patterns come from different musical traditions around the world including the music of Africa, Latin America, and the Middle-East.
Note: Our goal is to get you comfortable playing the instrument. We are not claiming to teach traditional technique or African rhythms.
The 3 Djembe Rhythms featured in this video are:
- Tresillo (aka Carribean Clave aka Malfuf)
- Basic Hip-Hop
- African/World
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AJ Block is the director of Didge Project and is active as a didgeridoo teacher and performer. In addition to didgeridoo, AJ has spent years studying music traditions from all over the world including jazz (trombone and piano), western classical music, Indian Classical Music, guitar and world percussion. AJ has developed a number of programs for Didge Project including The ABCs of Didgeridoo, The Didgeridoo Skills Course, and Circular Breathing Mastery. He is also the author of Didge For Sleep, a didgeridoo learning method designed specifically for people with Sleep Apnea. As a performer AJ is the leader of the Didge Project Music Collective and a member of Dream Seed: A Shamanic Sound Journey. AJ is a founding member of Sacred Arts Research Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of sacred art traditions through education, ritual and study. As a student of spiritual teacher Maestro Manuel Rufino AJ is an active member of the Golden Drum community. 
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I just started playing and I'm hooked. It's very therapeutic and helps relieves stress. It also helps with my anxiety. I play for myself right now.
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This is the easiest to follow of the many djembe rhythm videos I've looked at...thank you!
I've played percussion of various sorts thru my life and have been looking for just the to settle one and it was the djembe that won it! I find it meditative and calming. I love the power from a circle. Playing while I'm camping rocks as does on my back deck watching the sunset!
welcome to the family of djembe players!
Thank you. You have an excellent teaching style. I just bought my djembe at 61. This was my first video.
Welcome to the global family of drummers!
The Djembe is so therapeutic. It can speak yet no one has to know the real message. Very helpful tutorial.
I just starting learning to play and that's pretty much how I feel about it. Relieves stress and boosts the immune system too. Cheers!
THANK you, so very much, for you kindness.....in posting this. Your fast-flying-hands give me hope to "one day" be as good.
Thank you a lot for this exellent teaching style and symphatic vibes!
Just bought a beautiful djembe from a wonderful faire in Washington last weekend, it's been mainly for drum circles and personal meditation thanks for the rythems my friend
I started 3 months ago and have learned a few basic rhythms from these other rhythms just naturally came to me and I stared experiencing a very calming meditative in the moment closer to being in the moment than I have every had. Kinda awesome! Thank you for your time!
Thanks for tuning in and let us know what else you would like to learn!
G'day from Australia I have recently purchased my first 12 " Djembe I will be using it hopefully in a Drum Circle when I have a little more experience
Self learner and adapter due to right hand injury (cannot flatten right hand for base) but I found a way to produce the sound anyway. Would read, practice, and sync with a friend and go to open drum circles. I mostly learned by listening to the tones and watching hand patterns. Then my left wrist was broken and I lost strength and endurance to play. Not one to quit what I really enjoy, I am slowly and gently trying to build strength and endurance to play once again with a smaller djembe and may even get a lighter fiberglass one for easier portability. Your video is excellent and I appreciate seeing the pattern in print. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Diana Boughner wishing you a full recovery. These instruments are very gratifying to play but when it comes to injuries its important to get lots of rest.
Encouraging to read, Diana! Thanks for sharing! May patience and passion provide you with energy to heal your wounds.
Im a full time college student and I actually have a hand drumming class as my first year seminar. Thats why I'm here trying to find a rhythm to use for my mid-term.
I got djembe as a birthday gift! All my friends know that i love to slap with my palms and to make some noise and experimental music!
I want to learn how to play djembe for myself and so i can play with other people around the world! Tnx for this video! Peace
actually i'm playing a guitar, but (!) -i find it enormous profounding (and joyfull) to learn rhythm by your djembe lessons. thanks a lot!!
Great job - liked your process, choices, explanation was clear, easy to follow.
what we have here is a wonderful chilled situation! keep that mission going 🙏🙏❤❤🕉🕉 Thank you.
love this lesson! thank you! I go to monthly drum circles and new, full moon drumming circles and for my meditation and stress relief.
Happy to be of service
I was in The Gambia but never heard any drumming, I heard a lot of gansta rap....
Years later I was at a pagan festival and heard a woman playing. She taught me the basics and when I returned to Tucson, I bought a fiberglas djembe and practiced.
When the Gem Show hit town, I visited Little Africa and bought a couple smaller Djembe and one HUGHE one that I had reheaded.
I then turned an old chicken-cook in my yard into a drumming area, build a dancing circle and on Saturday nights, a few friends come over to play and dance around my bonfire.
Sounds like a good vision. Keep it going!
Beautiful!!! Thx for sharing!!
🙏 thank you! I’m starting to learn how to play now thanks to this video
Just learning as of this week. These are my favorite three beginner rhythms I’ve seen. Thanks!
Happy to hear it
just found hand pans and your didge project want to learn both thanks 4 your video breaking it down like that helped
dude, you are amazing at teaching !!! thanks
I like how you teach! thanks !
Love it,very easy to follow.
very insight and makes me to learn easy with your session
Hey your lesson was quite useful. I have been looking out for more such lesson.I guess you should post a few more on Djembe rhythms
Very good. I start today. For my personal use.
thanks- clear , good tab , easy to dig for rookie
Best teaching ever
thanks the second beat is awesome, i learned it and i rock thanks to you. i use it for meditation, actually i play bongos instead of djembe but it sounds as awesome :)
Very good video. Thanks very much
Great lesson. Thank you.
Wow the 3rd one I learnt on my own. Thanks for the posts. I now can put a name to it!....
Update > upon close investigation the 3rd I have as Tigali
Great teacher.
Drum Circle, and thank you for the video. Big Help.
Thanks for the lesson
You’re an awesome teacher. I play guitar in a band with my best friend who is the drum. I appreciate learning from you. Sometimes we switch and I want to get better.
Thanks so much! Good luck with your band.
So awesome teacher
you are a good teacher
I love it!
In the hip hop beat first I played all the tones, then I started skipping some and then I added this speed up, it was fun.
The last beat is Ayuub in Middle Eastern bellydance music. NICE
i remember doing this in primary school, I miss it alot.
Ohhh, we have jembe classes in mall of emirates dubai
Thanks for tutorial 👌
Sir thankyou you had explained it very beautifully....i want to learn for making it my proffession
What an amazing video, short and so sweet! May you and your house be greatly blessed!
Thank you so much. We receive this blessing wholeheartedly!
Great lesson, thanks :)
Second one is cool, took me a while, but actually quite simpel
ye... good vibe man!
I love it and want to play .
Thanks, man!
I watched a lot but yours the only that really breaks it down.
hand-drumming is an internal heartbeat expressed outwardly.... better to listen from soul than to come from the head where the feeling gets lost
Excellent teacher!
Thank you! 😃
Nice teaching awesome
The third rhythm you played is one part to the African rhythm Macuru which is played after the courtship rhythm Yankadi. You play Yankadi during the courtship and Macuru when a couple meets and then back into Yankadi. I've never seen it played as it's own rhythm This is one of three parts to Macuru. You can research the meaning of traditional African rhythms or you can reach out and I can help you with the meanings behind each rhythm.
Rhythms may be the same, but according the the location and culture they have different names and meanings. Why waste your time here when there are so many masters and techniques on this portal? Just search for conga or djembe. Weedy is an example of a great North American player. Djenbe is becoming universal. Also, the conga has the same African origins as the djembe and Mongo Santa Maria is a master.
It may sounds like Macuru but this is different, not Macuru
Thank you!!!!!
Thanks a lot
Funny, everyone calls that 3rd pattern something else! Here, we'd recognize it as "Goema", a Western Cape pattern and feel from the local minstrel marching carnival band tradition. The Fanga pattern I learned locally is a different pattern, FWIW (I'm sure regional variations abound, and our exposure to West African patterns may be skewed by the limited number of individuals we hear and are taught by, from that culture).
You can play any way you want, but I would encourage you (and anyone watching) to also use the full length of your fingers for tones. The folkloric/traditional/tipico approach is a wealth of knowledge, and will give you a very different (fuller) sound.
And keep your fingers together while doing bass. The best bass is achieved when your hand is shaped as a spoon and placed in the middle between the center and the rim.
This video works well on bongos too.🖒
AWESOME!!! Thank you so much!! I teach 5 hours tomorrow and this will be my lesson plan. 😁👍🏽💯👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
You’re teaching Djembe?
I OWE YOU ABSOLUTE GRATITUDE FOR THIS TUTORIAL @didgeproject !!! I taught djembe for 5 hours this afternoon 9/23/23. My 1st time ever after watching YOU!!! IT WAS A HIT, LITERALLY!!! 💯👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💫✨️
Nice djembe !! :)
Thanks for the video's ..
I play the Djembe in a band called . "Zamana" ( based in Holland and also perform with it.. we play the African ritems and sing the African songs with it. And i personal go also to Drumcircels and play with my spotify musik the latin sounds and Kizomba ritems. Getting better in hearing the different ritems and make the translation to the Djembe . But im still excersise for better and faster hand coördination. .
Thank You for making the beginner Djembe lessons, I am learning to play at home :)
The third rhythm is used for "Reggaeton" it is a Mexican and surrounding nations take on Reggae, the rhythm originates from part of an Arabic rhythm played on the Darbuka.
Reggae music (can we have a Djembe tutorial?) is known as being from Jamaica, with its root being from Africa.
Arabic people may have passed it along to other parts of Africa.
For example Morocco is an Arabic nation in North Africa. Morocco is a short ferry journey off the coast of Spain in Europe, historically Spanish explorers and people visited or settled in Jamaica (Spanish Town?), and many of the nations in the Americas.
The rhythm may also have traveled from Turkey where many Darbuka are made both today (some of the Meinl range) and historically, which is also an Arabic country, which is in Europe, and has long been the gateway between the East and the West, with a fusion of cultures and people passing through its busy trade routes all over the world, it is also a popular tourist destination.
Darbuka are also traditionally made in Egypt, which is part of North Africa & part of the Middle East, and is also a trade and tourism hub, so it is another route where influences of music travel.
There are likely many other routes the rhythm may have taken in its global travel, or combinations of them.
I play it for meditative purpose. Jam at times too.
Really helpful
Great way of teaching! Thanks & God Bless Didge Project! :)
Hi Thank you for such amazing lesson, Do I practice djembe for meditational perpose also I play with djembe group circle ..b
great teacher - preciate
Awesome
Hi i just start the djembe and the aim is to learn how to use it in groups, with other instruments, other djembe. It would be really great to have some tips on how to play with other people :) thank this video is amazing !!!
Good to know. We will work on a video on playing with others.
You are Great sir , Pls send new video
you were wondering about the name of the third rhythm. I think it sounds a lot like the Puerto Rican "Plena" rhythm, which uses a 4 bass tone pattern on one conga while the other congas are used for more syncopated patterns.
Ha! Wuddup AJ! Come back to Austin soon!
Great explanation of the counting and phrasing, especially in the hip-hop one. Nice breakdown, although I think the hip-hop one loses it's feel at a high speed, and starts to border funk
That rhythm you played that you said goes well with Latin and Brazilian music is call Holandes in Puerto Rican Bomba music.
Great
Super, je te découvre, l'idéal est la traduction car je peux te suivre et apprendre un peu l'anglais ! Ce qui est appréciable aussi c'est des morceaux courts et bien rythmés ! C'est appréciable aussi que tu fasses un moment au ralenti pour bien intégrer le morceau, et merci de filmer aussi tes mains dans le bon sens (sous 2 angles différents) au top ❤
Thank you for your kind words. We really appreciate you joining us for this tutorial and we are happy to hear that it is helpful for you.
1. The Djembe is not placed flat on the floor as the sound is then trapped. It is either held at an angle, between the knees with the ankles crossed or by the use of a strap - this is so that sound can come out of the port. 2. The Djembe is played with dominant hand dominant, viz., in a 4/4 count (if you are right handed) your right hand is 1; 2; 3; 4 and your left hand is the "and". A 4/4 is counted 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and - 8 notes. 3. Make a stop sign with your hand - keeping the thumb out - and using your wrist produce a clear tone with the full length of your fingers. 4. To get a good bass sound, make a stop sign with your hand and bounce a ball bending at the elbow - the palm of the hand should be flat on the vellum. 5. Slap is never played straight down on the edge with just the tips of the fingers. Slap is a whip like movement of the hand that produces a sharp crack on the vellum. 6. Music is not about playing every single note - spaces must be left (ghost notes) so that other instruments can also be heard.
I am underwhelmed by the video. Learn and then teach!. As the person implied above. Djembe drummers make oral like statements when they play. You Tube is too big to dwell on this presentation.
Plus it’s NOT TUNEDDD
this is why! you have only 27 subscribers......🤐
@@johnobrien4177 WoW! What's with the Nasty energy with your comment?!
Hand-drumming is associated with the heartbeat...the drummer's heartbeat...the listeners' heartbeat... the heartbeat of Africa.
Your comment sounds like a dark heart... or simply disconnected.
Healthy drum circles-whether in vivo or virtual- are loving and inclusive.
Hope you're in a healthier place now
Your sound is nice, kinda mellow
Owesome possum 😀😀
This is impressive. You've made it very easy to follow, not to sound as good as you ~_~, but a start.
Nice to meet you Beverlee. With daily practice you can achieve great things. Keep it up!
I just recieved my djembe today :-). I am gonna use it for chantings in satsangs and kirtans. Can you help me with that :-)
v nice
Best sounding djembe I've ever heard! You get amazing tone out of that little guy. Thanks for the video.
The 3rd Rhythm would be Calypso I've learned, enjoyed thanks
I love how stoned you are
Does anyone know how to do the fills for the third beat? Would love to practice that...
for teaching the instrument
Little Beach Maui Hawaii drum circle every Sunday around 3pm ish. Unless it’s raining. Check it out. See you there bradda aloha
2:40 🎶”Give me a second, I....I need story straight" 🎶
Im beginner.. I would like to learn for personal meditation.. Thanks
In the first two rhythms, you play ghost notes and call them tones. Also, you play tones and call them slaps. Slaps produce a significantly higher pitched sound than tones. You can get these by not hitting the rim, but by bringing your hand forward a little, so you hit the drum a bit further to the middle, where you basically bounce your fingers off the drum. You'll have to experiment to find the right spot. Took me a while. My first 100 tries didn't produce a real slap at all. I've been taking lessons for 4 years now with a teacher who learned his craft in the heart of the original djembe culture, in Gambia.
Thats a great tip. Did you all hear that?
I'm a new drummer and this video is awesome the only thing is way after the session from being with the other drummers the beats of Drumming is still in my head😅
Just bought one and learning off videos
Thanks for this tutorial! I play my djembe at drum circles (Mumbai Drum Circle in India)!
Want to learn more types rhythms - simple please for beginners at drum circles. Thanks!
Pooja Sharma i would like to join Djembe drum circle in Mumbai. Can you please share details
I playing wind instrument for a Little Mermaid performance and was asked to play a drum too, so that's how I am using a djembe to answer your ?
bts! for personal use! thanks!
More lessons please
Could someone please tell me why the dampeners are used to reduce overtone? I guess for a more pure sound?