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 Kamuran’s drumming and rhythm links |
Updated: 26 Mar 2009 |
This page has reviews of selected sites that focus on hand drumming and/or hand drumming rhythms.
This page is part of Kamuran's Guide for Doumbek Players.
Note: a link to an external site opens a NEW browser window.
The main sources for the rhythms on this Web site
- Middle Eastern Rhythms
- His site has mucho information on the origins and uses of many rhythms, rhythm notation in both text
and graphical (notes on a staff) format, many MIDI files, and two rhythm generators - one that is Web-based and another that is a Palm Pilot application.
An Analysis of Rhythmic Modes in Middle Eastern Music (pre-1600)
Per Jas, this is from a handout for a class he taught at Pennsic 2001.
Jas's Rhythm List
A very long alphabetical list of rhythms as a flat text file.
- Nott's Doumbek Rhythms (Note: this is on archive.org, the Wayback Machine)
- Good notation and instructions. Last update was Jan 1997?
- Mas'ud al-Sha'ir's Quick and Dirty Guide to Middle-Eastern Rhythms
- Good instruction, notation, and variations. Last update was January 1999?
- Taodrumming: A Player's Guide to Rudimental Hand Drumming
- by Daveed Korup. He also had a Web site (pages saved at archive.org)
- Fun with the Doumbek - Instructions & 50 Rhythm Variations
- by Steve Kundrat of Mid-East
Mfg., Inc.
He kindly allowed me to "use anything" from his book. - Kesslari's advanced Doumbek Rhythms
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Also known as "Kesslari's Doumbek Madness".
Some of the owners of these sites are also members of an email group for SCA drummers.
Other sites
- Peyman and His Tonbak
- A tonbak is a Persian goblet drum related to the Arabic doumbek. Notable pages: drums in
Persian paintings (with pictures), historical social status of tonbak players, analysis of old
rhythms. Owner: Peyman Nasehpour.
Peyman also runs these email groups on Yahoo! for percussionists: CylindricalDrums | Goblet_Drumming | IndianTabla | kettledrums
- African Drum Rhythms
- Educational books, CDs, and software for sale on African drumming rhythms using the jembe, bass drum, and iron bells. Pages in Swedish (Svenska) too. Owner: Lennart Halström.
- Edric Aziz
- Teacher in Mesa, Arizona. I like his picture page of percussion instruments.
- RhythmWeb- "world of rhythm"
- Big site, much information. There are sections devoted to particular instruments (including
bongo, bougarabou, cajon, conga, jembe, doumbek, frame drum, gourd, mallets, taiko) and more
sections on a particular region or culture. Many pictures and links. Original owner: Eric Stuer.
CD project pages:
Frame drummers | Goblet drummmers
- Snare Drum Rudiments (Vic Firth)
- Features "all 40 of The Percussive Arts Society's Essential Snare Drum Rudiments", play-along video files, many play-along MIDI files, exercises with "real world" musical phrases, advice articles elsewhere on the site. Both "Sylvanus" (Billy Woods) and Uncle (Armando) Mafufo recommend using rudiments for hand drumming practice.
More links
Yasmina's Joy of Belly Dancing ~ Wow! An extensive resource. Mucho information on belly dancing and anything related to it. I'm literally floored at the variety of information on this site.
Jim Donovan Music ~ Drummer for Rusted Root, magazine columnist, and teacher. Mr Donovan offers workshops and articles and sells instruments and recordings on his site.
Collectivo Darbuca ~ A Spanish site on drums (jembe, darbuca), puppetry, poetry, and more.
Nataraj's Stage ~ A personal homepage and "exercise in self-expression". Many diverse interests. Pictures, fiction, essays, poetry.
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Original page posted:
February 15, 2000 • Links tested: May 31, 2009
• Last tweaked:
April 19, 2009
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