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Roots Jam 2: West African and Afro-Latin Drum Rhythms
Learn and remember djembe rhythms the easy way, with visual box notation. Whether you are a beginning drummer mystified by complex traditional polyrhythms, or an advanced drummer seeking a ready resource of new rhythm inspirations, Roots Jam 2 provides you with an essential and comprehensive toolkit of beats, lessons, and tips for practice and performance.
Nowick Gray is a drumming performer and teacher with thirty years of experience playing West African rhythms. His popular Roots Jam rhythm books, YouTube videos, audio compositions and instructional web pages have helped beginning, intermediate and performing drummers understand and play traditional African-based rhythms since 1996.
Roots Jam 2 , “an ultimate drumming reference,” gives you a comprehensive collection of Afro-Cuban, Haitian, and Brazilian rhythms such as samba and rumba, along with a West African rhythm collection from Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Burkina Faso. Learn parts for kenkeni, sangban, dununba; congas, djembes, ashikos; and shekere and batucada instruments such as agogo bells. A bonus section of Middle Eastern rhythms is also included.
Empower yourself to take that quantum leap, to the full ecstasy and power of the drum. Pick up your copy of Roots Jam 2 today by clicking the Buy Now button at the top of this page.
Nowick Gray is a drumming performer and teacher with thirty years of experience playing West African rhythms. His popular Roots Jam rhythm books, YouTube videos, audio compositions and instructional web pages have helped beginning, intermediate and performing drummers understand and play traditional African-based rhythms since 1996.
Roots Jam 2 , “an ultimate drumming reference,” gives you a comprehensive collection of Afro-Cuban, Haitian, and Brazilian rhythms such as samba and rumba, along with a West African rhythm collection from Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Burkina Faso. Learn parts for kenkeni, sangban, dununba; congas, djembes, ashikos; and shekere and batucada instruments such as agogo bells. A bonus section of Middle Eastern rhythms is also included.
Empower yourself to take that quantum leap, to the full ecstasy and power of the drum. Pick up your copy of Roots Jam 2 today by clicking the Buy Now button at the top of this page.
86 pages, Paperback
First published May 9, 2014
About the author
Nowick Gray
48 books21 followersNowick Gray writes in a variety of genres, each work teasing the dynamics of choice among multiple realities: whether romantic relationships, plot endings, murder suspects, virtual worlds, alternate timelines, narrative loops, stylistic colorings.
Nowick works as a freelance copy editor, performs and teaches West African drumming, and enjoys nature photography. Educated at Dartmouth College and the University of Victoria, he taught in Inuit villages in the Arctic before carving out a homestead in the BC mountains. In more recent years he calls Victoria, BC home, while wintering in tropical locations.
Nowick works as a freelance copy editor, performs and teaches West African drumming, and enjoys nature photography. Educated at Dartmouth College and the University of Victoria, he taught in Inuit villages in the Arctic before carving out a homestead in the BC mountains. In more recent years he calls Victoria, BC home, while wintering in tropical locations.
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