African Drumming Is One Of The Best Drumming Styles To Learn

All those who love music, they know or they should rather know that West African music has its own charm and uniqueness. The drums of Africa are famous all across the world. The primary tool of the trade is the djembe, however the skills translate across to the other instruments too. When you attend drum lessons Swansea, Neath and learn a bit about African drumming, you would delve deeper into the music, working on strengthening your musicianship and leadership skills. The focus on musicianship is developed by a study of syncopation and polyrhythms, and how you can use these to teach not only musical concepts, but to explore the metaphors of collaboration and personal contribution too. Leadership skills capitalise on improved skill, understanding the music and your developing facilitation skills. These drumming classes also cover ensemble creation and development, soloing basics and other useful (and fun) West African essentials.

Drums are wonderful instrument and they have beautiful sound. In Gambia, drums are very important in people’s daily life. They use drums in many different ways, they have drumsthat are used for sending messages to the people in town or sometimes to send message to the next village, and there are drums for ceremonies like weddings or naming ceremonies and there are also drums for healing people who are sick.Drums are super instruments that when you hear them, you feel something inside your body, because they have this super natural power, which goes into the body and touches our soul and wakes our spirits.

Now if we talk about tribes in Gambia, then there are people related as a cultural group who speak Mande-deroved languages. Manding people reside generally within Mali, SeneGambia, Cote d`Ivoire, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. These are the descendants of the founders and rulers of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires that existed at least as early as the eighth century and lasted through about sixteenth century. In this Mandinka tribe, they have three drums, one play on sabaro (lead) drum, one on the kutiriba (bass), and one on the kutirinding (rhythm), but there are other instruments, which are acoustic instrument likeKorra, Balanfong and Kontin.

As you learn African style of drumming, you would surely come to know of all such tribes because many African drumming styles are said to be originated from these tribes. So, keep learning drums and play them hard!

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