Bongo Grooves for Beginners DVD

In this third volume in his bestselling series Al Dworsky shows you how to play funky West African Djembe grooves on Bongos. Each pattern is taught step-by-step using a player's eye view and a side view at normalspeed and in slow motion. The grooves fit with all kinds of music as you'll see when Al plays them with his brother Rich Dworsky the Piano player on public radio's A Prairie HomeCompanion. And you'll be able to playalong because Al only plays exactly what he's shown you how to play in the lessons.To show you how the grooves work in a more traditional context Al is joined by master drummer Fode Seydou Bangoura onDjembe. The DVD is about an hour long and includes a PDF file with simple charts of all the patterns. Alan Dworsky is the creator of over 20 bestselling and award-winning books and videos for hand drummers and othermusicians including the DVDs 'Gentle Djembe for Beginners' 'Cajon Grooves for Beginners ' and 'Bongo Grooves for Beginners'. His books 'A Rhythmic Vocabulary' and 'Conga Drumming' have each won the DRUM Magazine Readers' Poll asBest Instructional Book.

Learning to play the bongos has never been easier than with this new DVD from Alan Dworsky the award-winning author of 'Conga Drumming' and 'How to Play Djembe.' Designed for the first-time hand drummer this video teachesfun funky grooves that fit with all kinds of music. The instruction is clear and step-by-step with no boring exercises. Each pattern is taught with overhead and side views and slow motion is used to help make sure every detailis clear. The techniques used in this non-traditional approach are easy to learn and easy on the hands. Each lesson has a matching play-along track to practice with. The DVD comes with a PDF file with charts of all the patterns and there's a section on the video explaining how to read the charts. Also included are tips on tuning and how to hold the bongos explanations of basic rhythmic concepts and examples of how to use the grooves to play along withrecorded music or jam with friends.