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A djembe drum. African music relies heavily on fast-paced, upbeat rhythmic drum playing found all over the continent, though some styles, such as the Township music of South Africa do not make much use of the drum and nomadic groups such as the Maasai do not traditionally use drums. Elsewhere the drum is the sign of life: its beat is the ...
The African Beat is a jazz album by Art Blakey and the Afro-Drum Ensemble recorded for Blue Note on January 24, 1962 and released later that year. [ 5 ] Background
Gudugudu is a traditional drum used by the Yoruba ethnic group of Nigeria.The gudugudu is a time keeping drum for the dundun family of drums that are said to mimic speech. It is designed to produce a sharp and loud beat that all the other drummers can hear and keep in time with.
The bass sound is produced by striking the drum with the palm and flat fingers near the center of the skin. Tone and slap are produced by striking the drum closer to the edge; the contact area of the fingers determines whether the sound is a tone or a slap.
These beats harken to the stylings of a variety of traditional African drum beats across West Africa as well as the precursory genre Afrobeat. [32] The beat in Afrobeats music is not just a base for the melody, but acts as a major character of the song, taking a lead role that is sometimes equal to or of greater importance than the lyrics and ...
Some African drums can even imitate consonants by hitting the drum with a stick or hand at different angles and with different parts of the stick or hand. The Ewe also play a pair of two drums called atumpan (pronounced ah-toom-pahn), which are used all over Ghana as talking drums. The atumpan player stands up and plays the drum with two sticks ...
A bougarabou (alternative spelling “Boucarabou”) is a set of drums commonly used in West Africa.The drums are single headed (cow skin), with an elongated goblet [1] or roughly conical shape, usually placed on a single stand, and most commonly played in sets of three to four.
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