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"The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. Afterall, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants." --Babatunde Olatunji
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Rhythm of the Week...Drumming Music Notation: Hand Drum Lessons with Easy Rhythm Instruction for African Drumming Music, Latin Drumming and other Hand Drum Rhythms.
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free music education resources and drumming tips for beginning or
advanced drummers...or anyone just wanting to groove with world
beat and alternative music 
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Click here to play sound file (93 kb) Tonasket Road _______ _______ _______ _______ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Jun Jun L L H H L H H :| repeat and/or go to next line; or play three and go to next on fourth L H L L H H H L H L L H L :| bell L H L H H L L _______ _______ _______ _______
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L L H L H H JJ or bell
Tonasket Road Funk
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g T g g D G fast tempo
Click here to play sound file (93 kb)
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The rhythm notation . . .
The following notation can be easier for
drummers and percussionists to use, compared to the usual notes
and lines of conventional sheet music. Because drum notes aren't
sustained but struck once, it makes sense to show the timing for
these beats as single and equal. Rests are measured by the same,
single-beat units.
All the rhythms at this site, and in the book Roots Jam, use the following notation for drum beats--primarily those played on the west African djembe.
D:
Dun ("Doon") = bass
beat with left hand
G: Gun ("Goon") = bass
beat with right hand
d: do ("doe") = rim
beat with left hand (tip half of fingers)
g: go = rim
beat with right hand
T: Ta = slap
beat with left hand: sharp glancing
stroke
P: Pa = slap
beat with right hand
- = space
About left and right hand notes:
Though the majority of the rhythms displayed here will show leading with the left hand, the handing can be reversed. In fact it makes sense to play both ways equally well, or to alternate for balance.
If you're just starting out and want to follow my notation with a dominant right hand, you can treat D's, d's and T's as right-hand beats, and G's, g's and P's as left-hand beats.
Additional Notes:
X = low note on bass
drum or two-tone bell or percussion
x = any note on monotone percussion,
or high note on two-tone percussion.
[Another way to show hi/lo notes
is hi on first line, lo on second;
or by H and L]
k = bell note when played with bass
drum (jun-jun)
x = underlined (or bold) note means
stressed or accented.
(d) = parenthesis means optional note(s)
or way to play a given note(s)
d__g__d: = triplet, with three notes
played within 2, 4 or 8 beat measure.
d_g: = two notes played as if two ends
of a triplet (d_-_g)
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