Description
This course will teach the darabuka in the Greek and Balkan styles, focusing on split hand technique. We will cover typical rhythms of Greece and the Balkans: hasapiko and syrtos (2/4), Tsamiko (3/4), tallava and tsiftetelli (4/4) tallava, Baidouska (5/8), zonaradikos (6/8), madilatos (7/8), sygathistos, Zeibekiko and karsilamas (9/8), stankena (11/8), Krivo horo (13/8), pousnitsa (15/8), and Leventikos (16/8). This course is for experienced darabuka players, very comfortable on their drums and familiar with the styles being taught here. We will occasionally use rhythm notation, primarily for exercises derived from “stick control” and “paradiddles.”
This course includes
- 15 Hours of Instruction
- Lifetime Access to Video Recordings
- Certificate of Completion
Student requirements
- Instrumental technique: any level
- Western theory: any level
- Modal music theory: any level
- Sight reading: any level
- Transposition: any level
- Learning by ear: any level
- Composition: any level
- Improvisation: any level
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