September 17, 2012

African drumming practice.

Today I met Kofee!  He's really cool!  He said drumming is his language and when he drumming it speaks to him and he wants us to feel like that to.  He said drumming is all about giving and taking.  When you hit the drum you give, when your hand bounces back up you take.  Holding the drum is important to.  If you tilt it a wrong way your taking and keeping sound.  If your doing it right, then your giving.  And then after his small speech we started drumming.  About 50 minutes of it.  He made us hit it hare so that we were giving a lot of sound.  In all that 50 minutes we only learned 2 parts of what we were going to do.  Here they are.  Tone, tone, tone, BASE, BASE... Tone, tone, tone, BASE, BASE... and so on for a long time.  The second one is, left tone, right tone, left tone, right tone, left tone, BASE, BASE and so on.