Conga Drumming

By Alan Dworsky & Betsy Sansby. A beginner's guide to playing with time. This book teaches you how to play the conga drum using authentic Afro-Cuban rhythms: calypso, bomba, conga, rumba, and bembe. The book is divided into lessons that contain roughly the amount of new material a teacher would present to you in a weekly lesson. A single conga drum is the only thing you need to play these rhythms. Each part for each rhythm is presented one at a time, and then you are shown how to put them all together. Easy-to-read box charts are used to present rhythms. Symbols for various hand strokes are used that suggest the sound of the stroke or hand position used. General principles are: practice, playing, and group playing. Drum parts are arranged in order of difficulty. CD (included) has each of the 175 individual drum parts covered in the book as well as the complete rhythms played with all the parts.

160 pages.
Contents: Learning to Hit the Drum Using Rhythms in 4 - Calypso High & Middle Drum Parts & the Open Hand Touch; Conga High Drum Part & Slap; Rumba Low Drum Part & Bass Tone; Tumbao & the Heel & Toe; Calypso Middle Drum Part Extended; Bomba Low Drum Part.

Bembe Rhythms in 6 - Tumbao in 6 & the Bass-toe; Bembe Low & High Drum Parts; Bembe Middle Drum Part & the Drop; Bembe Middle Drum Part Variations.