3/16 practice at the Shed
by gr3vans
Michael, Nick, and Jessica
Jessica (girlfriend) has shown some interest in playing a bit. I want to get her into the dunun, so I brought her over to the shed to teach her some basics before Michael and Nick were going to be coming. She is a fast learner and very capable.
Once everyone was there we mostly worked on Soli.
Jess stuck to the Kenkeni and once I had worked out some Sangban variations that were plaguing me I moved over to the djembe and Nick worked on the same variations. On Djembe I worked on some solo phrases that I learned eons ago from Fred Simpson. I also ironed out some issues moving from the echauffment into the break with all duns playing echauf.
All in all it was a good night.
Jessica (girlfriend) has shown some interest in playing a bit. I want to get her into the dunun, so I brought her over to the shed to teach her some basics before Michael and Nick were going to be coming. She is a fast learner and very capable.
Once everyone was there we mostly worked on Soli.
Jess stuck to the Kenkeni and once I had worked out some Sangban variations that were plaguing me I moved over to the djembe and Nick worked on the same variations. On Djembe I worked on some solo phrases that I learned eons ago from Fred Simpson. I also ironed out some issues moving from the echauffment into the break with all duns playing echauf.
All in all it was a good night.
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death."
3/14 Sarah Lee's Class
by gr3vans
One World Dance and Drum with Sarah Lee
Warm up Kassa
Dance Sinte
I think I played sangban the whole night. not sure. that's what happens when you forget to take notes.
Warm up Kassa
Dance Sinte
I think I played sangban the whole night. not sure. that's what happens when you forget to take notes.
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death."
3/13 Manimous Class (Karim as Substitute)
by gr3vans
Manimou was out of town so Karim taught his dance class.
Abdoulaye Sylla played lead
Warm up - Kassa (sangban)
Dance was Sinte. I started on Sangban and was not as tight as I should be so I moved to kenkeni.
Abdoulaye Sylla played lead
Warm up - Kassa (sangban)
Dance was Sinte. I started on Sangban and was not as tight as I should be so I moved to kenkeni.
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death."
3/12 practice group
by gr3vans
Sangban/ Kenkeni - me
djembe/ Sangban/ Kenkeni - Karim
Warm up w/ Balakulanya (sangban)
Rest of practice was spent working on Kawa. I've had some trouble with the Sg part and have been working at it. while Karim went through the dance with the dancers I spoke the part aloud. Once the dancers were ready for music I played Kenkeni and Karim played sangban and dununba.
at the very end of the session I played kenkeni part for dununba while dancers stepped to the down beats.
djembe/ Sangban/ Kenkeni - Karim
Warm up w/ Balakulanya (sangban)
Rest of practice was spent working on Kawa. I've had some trouble with the Sg part and have been working at it. while Karim went through the dance with the dancers I spoke the part aloud. Once the dancers were ready for music I played Kenkeni and Karim played sangban and dununba.
at the very end of the session I played kenkeni part for dununba while dancers stepped to the down beats.
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death."
3/11/10 One World Dance and Drum - Soli week 1
by gr3vans
This is Sarah-Lee Koumbassa's Dance Class. From here on out I will refer to it as OWDD and assume that she is teaching unless otherwise noted.
Lead Djembe - Karim Koumbassa
Accompaniments - David, First timer Newman
Shekere - another new guy forgot his name
Sangban - Me
Kenkeni - Nick
Dununba - Michael
Warm up - Kassa
Dance for the evening - Soli (week 1)
Everything seemed pretty 'on' tonight. The energy was good, Soli especially rocked. While we were waiting for the dancers at one point I went into the echauffement that Michael Hunter had just showed me and got stuck... this could be because we didn't go over the sangban break and, yeah I got the stink eye from Karim (well deserved). After class Karim showed Michael and me some interesting variations for the dunun and sangban. S var had a really cool 'lilt' at the end. Hopefully I can get him to go over it again so that I can work on applying it with the dancers.
Sarah likes to do the same dance several weeks in a row and...
[ Continued ]
Lead Djembe - Karim Koumbassa
Accompaniments - David, First timer Newman
Shekere - another new guy forgot his name
Sangban - Me
Kenkeni - Nick
Dununba - Michael
Warm up - Kassa
Dance for the evening - Soli (week 1)
Everything seemed pretty 'on' tonight. The energy was good, Soli especially rocked. While we were waiting for the dancers at one point I went into the echauffement that Michael Hunter had just showed me and got stuck... this could be because we didn't go over the sangban break and, yeah I got the stink eye from Karim (well deserved). After class Karim showed Michael and me some interesting variations for the dunun and sangban. S var had a really cool 'lilt' at the end. Hopefully I can get him to go over it again so that I can work on applying it with the dancers.
Sarah likes to do the same dance several weeks in a row and...
[ Continued ]
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death."
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