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    Hip Grooves for Hand Drums: How to Play Funk, Rock & World-Beat Patterns on Any Drum
    Hip Grooves for Hand Drums: How to Play Funk, Rock & World-Beat Patterns on Any Drum
    Hip Grooves for Hand Drums: How to Play Funk, Rock & World-Beat Patterns on Any Drum
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    Hip Grooves for Hand Drums: How to Play Funk, Rock & World-Beat Patterns on Any Drum

    By Alan Dworsky and Betsy Sansby

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    You don't need a drumset to lay down a groove. All you need is one drum. It can be a djembe, a conga, or anything else where you can fit both your hands on the drumhead. Whether your goal is to play in a band, jam in the park, play in a church group, or just drum along with your favorite CDs, this book will show you how, step by step. Please note: audio files of the CD that comes with the print version of this book are not included in this ebook version (but are available separately).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDancing Hands Music
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9780985739829
    Hip Grooves for Hand Drums: How to Play Funk, Rock & World-Beat Patterns on Any Drum

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      Hip Grooves for Hand Drums - Alan Dworsky

      Important Notice

      The print version of this book comes with an audio CD that contains recordings of all the drum patterns. If you would like to order the CD as downloadable audio files, go to www.dancinghands.com.

      If you would like to see how every pattern is played, a DVD of all the patterns and downloadable video files are also available at www.dancinghands.com.

      At the end of this ebook, you’ll find information about other instructional books and videos for hand drummers available from Dancing Hands Music. These include the Gentle Djembe for Beginners video series, as well as the videos Bongo Grooves for Beginners and Cajon Grooves for Beginners.

      Hip Grooves for Hand Drums - How to Play Funk, Rock, & World-Beat Patterns on Any Drum

      Copyright ©2001 by Alan Dworsky and Betsy Sansby

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means without permission except the blank charts on pages 86 through 91.

      Published by

      DANCING HANDS MUSIC

      4275 Churchill Circle

      Minnetonka, MN, 55345

      phone or fax: 952-933-0781

      dancinghands.com

      Book design and layout by MacLean & Tuminelly

      Cover art by Toni Pawlowsky

      Illustrations by Jay Kendell except for the illustration on page 83 by Robert Jackson

      Patterns on the CD played by Marc Anderson, marcanderson.com

      Printed in the United States of America with soy ink on recycled, acid-free paper by Banta ISG (Viking Press)

      ISBN: 0-9638801-5-2 ISBN OF EBOOK VERSION: 978-0-9857398-2-9

      To Barb and Jim, our best friends

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      CHAPTER 1

      Who this book is for and how it works

      You don’t need a drumset to lay down a groove. All you need is one drum. It can be a djembe, a conga, or anything else you can get both your hands on. Whether your goal is to play in a band, jam in the park, or just drum along with your favorite CDs, this book will show you how, step by step.

      There are no boring exercises in this book, just great dance grooves. Many of them are adapted from drumset patterns used in rock, pop, and funk music. Others are based on traditional African or Afro- Cuban rhythms. You can play all these grooves in a wide variety of musical styles and settings. And you can hear how each one sounds on the CD that comes with the book.

      If you’ve never played a hand drum before, that’s okay. We’ll show you how to make all the basic strokes on a djembe or a conga in the very first lesson. These same techniques can be applied to almost any hand drum. We use life-like illustrations to show how each stroke looks from the outside and give detailed descriptions to explain how each stroke feels from the inside.

      If you’ve never read music before, that’s okay too. We use simple box charts that even non-musicians find easy to understand. And we don’t just dump a pile of charts on you and split. We’ll be with you every step of the way, anticipating your questions, pointing out whatever is most important, and explaining whatever we think will make your journey easier.

      The book is organized into eleven lessons arranged roughly in order of difficulty. Within each lesson, the patterns start simple and gradually get more complex. But you’ll hardly notice it, because we make sure you get the right-size steps, in the right order, at just the right time.We’ve done everything else we could to make this book as user- friendly as possible. Whenever we introduce a new Playing Principle or Practice Principle, we highlight it in the margin for easy reference. Whenever we introduce a new term, we print it in bold letters, define it on the spot, and toss it in the Glossary. Whenever we introduce a new musical concept, we separate it and explain it in a Musical Time Out. At the back of the book you’ll find blank

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