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Amazing content thx ❤

I often use my shakers live in a worship service. I usually make sure to have a mixture of both loud and soft in my bag.

Ótima aula de hoje!

Aquela aula básica ao amanhecer, durante o café, para seguir mentalmente martelando durante todo o dia enquanto fixo o conhecimento teórico e, o coloco na prática na volta do trabalho.

Sounds awesome nice groove love that snare as well

Bob Dylan had his drummer play bongos on ' lay lady lay '

Real skins are softer and easier on my hands, I’ve actually split my finger tips at a live gig with synthetic heads playing to hard to be heard. I don’t like the after ring of the fake heads either. Natural skins have warmer tones also, and I still get a crisp slap with an effortless stroke. However when I play live I prefer fake because they’re louder, I just tape my fingers. But in drum circles or playing at home it’s natural for me.

subscribed and liked. After searching a few videos, yours is the clearest explanation by far. Thanks. Can I start on the 2 or the 3 (2/3 vs 3/2) of the bossa nova beat? are they interchangable for songs like bossa nova covers and even classics like ipanema? thanks!

Nice brother

Playing cajon with sticks for drumset. It sounds like shit regardless of what I use. The bass drum sound is OK, but the snare sounds like a really bad hi hat or something, regardless of what it's hit with, it's just not explosive and beefy enough to make the style of music I am making and it sucks because I've got no space for a real drum kit.

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cool stuff dude, thx.

Also, the new break apart scales (ex:call/response section) is nice.

Wayne’s World clip is a killer

love your videos Brother, just joined the church band, and need to learn more techniques and fundamentals.

Not a drummer, but this was great to learn from as a blues harpist

Thanks for the free lesson!

What microphone are you using for the bongo? Great tutorial on the rhythms.. I understand the mic is not the star of this video, but I’m curious about your sound because they are sounding great.

As if you just know nate worth, lol

How could be a bongo integrated in the Drum set?

Great to hear a fellow believer, and conga player, playing the congas to worship through music. The Ralph MacDonald, Errol Crusher Bennett, calypso pop/rock/jazz West Indian sound goes well with gospel as well. Keep on worshiping my man, you have skills.

Yeah!

Playin guaguancó on top of a pop track has to be a sin, right? I mean it HAS to

I have 3 sets of heads for each of my congas. Steer, rawhide, and Remo Skyndeep. Tried original Fiberskyn and didn't care much for them, however i think Remo might have improved them? Only time i use synthetics is when I'm called to play with a large, loud band, and need to cut through the mix. Synthetics produce overtones which aren't as noticeable in a a band with electrified instruments. If i could only pick one it would be steer. Good thing about synthetic is that they're not as susceptible to temperature changes, and are easier on the hands. They're cheaper too. Thing that makes the most difference is...practice! :)

Such a thoughtful, brilliant video! Yes, it is about playing lightly and soulful so you can last a musical lifetime! You are such an amazing teacher. Thank you!

Hi - percussionist and composer here. Thanks for this video! I needed something to refer to when adding a conga part to an arrangement of Smooth Criminal I am working on for Percussion Ensemble. While I didn't use any of your patterns note-for-note, it gave me a much better idea of what could be written and how an actual player would interpret the part to "color" their performance more authentically. Thanks!

I like this...

Great Lesson

Great lesson, thank you!

Interessantissimo video. Influenze Grove di Songo.

Tight!!! 🎉

Great topic!!

Honestly, I need to learn how to play shaker on 8th notes. I can do quarter, triplet and 16th of course, but I can't get 8s to sound good at all.

Where did you get the REMO heads for congas.

🇵🇷🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 bro killing it

As a 🇵🇷 we claim him, he,'s ours 🪘🪘

Genius!!!!

Hey Brother I just bought some pearl travel congas and am finding it difficult to get a good pitch as I am used to full body drums. Have you had any experience with these or other travel versions? I would like to just use the regular G C E tuning for now. Thanks for all your work pal and I am getting use out of your conga book.

Nailed it !!!

I have not heard you mention Haiti in any of your video where all the rhythm took place whether you want to accept it or not. Anywhere else modify it and make slower or faster.

Where do i to buy sharker sir? I like it😂😂

Mittens, great for Winter!

yeah well, i played passionately and hard for 17 years on mainly djembes. getting old i decided i wanted to finish this passion as a " master. " over the years i recognized the most notable of a master hand drummer is the tone they produce off the drum. i came to south america and starte congas. saw " Tipico Jam " with Giovanni (youtube video) and immediately realized his velocity was absolutely impossible with extra tension. than i went frame by frame and saw his hand strike. his hand EXPANDED on the drum - did NOT contract. so i started examining my hands - they were in a constant state of contraction. i started trying to stretch my muscles . i looked up a scientific paper on stretching. the scientist said " muscles do not stretch. " ... it is our nervous system that controls the length of the muscle - our muscles are long enuf to do any unusual feat that we see others do. the problem is re-training the nervous system. so, as crazy as it sounds ... " yoga for the hands " is what we practice. mis-conceptions about yoga will slow your progress. it is about teaching your nervous system to allow your muscles to lengthen more. a child growing up watching a master at home will NOT have to do ANYTHING to retrain their nervous system. that is why - for instance the stick drummer " Buddy Rich " claimed never to practice in his life - because he started with all the right role model for his hands and instinctively did it. 10 minutes a day of concentrated training to lengthen and relax your hands is about 90% of the best you can do. the nervous system is very very conservative and changes very slowly. but do not despair, because the most important work you do on the congas - and all percussion instruments - is being " on time " and our sense of taste - essentially being a musician.. ... anyway. sure - flashy technique may get a drummer hired - but real professionals usually want " bread and butter " work to support and back the melodic instruments.

Lmfaooo I disliked it because it didn't sit with my instrumental

This is dope bro

THEY WERE NOT SLAVES .... 😊

I believe that some teachers of Conga are so stuck in only their genre or style that they limit the students ability to express themselves without thinking! One thing about the conga is I have heard players who have never taken a lesson in their lives and don’t even know how to tune a drum but play by ear what they feel and sound great. I believe Conga and other hand drums when played without fear or thinking too much are a connection of Mind, Body, Soul and the Earth! Whether you play salsa, bachata, plena, Guaguanco bomba , dance hall, roots rock, blues, country, GoGo, R&B , Jazz , KuKu, Mozambique, songo, mambo etc etc it all originated in the Mother Land. If you can talk conga then talk !

My life was blest to study rhythm with a master named Julio Collazo. He played our Felipe Yanez Orchestra. Yes, it all came from Afrika. Dr. Y

Look for cymbal stacks? rhythmnotes.net/cymbal-stacks/

Overhead view of the Kunga will be nice