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Summary: Use slapping techniques when playing the djembe; learn how with tips from our expert djembe drummer in this free djembe video music lesson.
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Scott Swearingen Scott Swearingen has been playing hand drums and percussion for 6 years with musicians and dancers in Austin, TX. He has played professionally with Belly Danc... read more
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Questions & AnswersWell so you learned this, you learned that, you learned this. Okay, the next one we need to really find - and this is a more advanced technique - is to… you can vary that sound by pushing with your fingers on the drumhead… all the way up and you can even do it from base sound… Now, when you do a slap typically that is used for some sort of emphasis. So you will be playing your basic pattern… your eighth note remember one and two and one two and one two… all the way your sixteenth note. So I emphasizing Within the rhythm I emphasizing these four sounds. With those slaps and do can do it up here and you can do it down there, even down there if you want to, I usually use this slap, press slap down there. I usually do it up here. So let me show you again another way to use the press slap as an accent… is to do within the eighth note pattern. So go on…I lot of time I end on the slap. You can also start on the slap. We have this one song that goes... Then I actually start on a slap and then the end.
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thank you both for all the great tips. I was wondering if you could put some clips on here with some differnt beats and patterns say 3min or so. that way we at home can play along and both get a chance to learn the beats and make up our own solo to go with it and then we will know is we are indeed keeping the right time. if at the 2min mark you do a solo and we know it is coming then we can keep the base beat and see the solo you like in that main beat. and then finnish back on the main together. just an idea to help me and maybe a few more people out in the Internet drumming community