rhythms for funeral and how it is ?

[cally man]

what drumming rhythms to do for funeral? and how is funeral carried out in djembe world, i want djembes when i go to the next level.
raspect

[Paul]

Hi,

Not sure how they do it in the djembe world, but in Ghanaian music two rhythms for differing groups are popular..

For the Ashante -Adowa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxv6lNn8GHA

And for the Ewe -Agdbza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2PJ5nYyIjw

Definately want to go out like that..

[michi]

As far as I know, the Malinke don't play djembe/dunun at funerals.

But I wouldn't let that stop me I'm going to go out to Malinke rhythms when the day comes!

Michi.

[dleufer]

I was told that in Baro (Gberedu region) it is extremely unusual for djembe to be played at a funeral but if it is going to be played the rhythm would be Numunka Bolo (also called just Numun I think) which is the blacksmith's rhythm (numun means blacksmith). I think that they said it could be done if the village chief dies and they said it could be done for another person's funeral but I forget who.
I saw a funeral when I was in Baro that had music, but not djembe played at it. A "grand cultivateur" (very important/successful farmer) died and they sang all of the Kassa songs and played Tama along with a few smaller drums which I don't know the name of.
I would gladly upload all of the recordings but all of them are larger than 2mb which is the upload limit. Any suggestions? They are originally WAV but I converted them all to MP3 to upload them and they are still too big.
As regards other regions I have no idea.

[Dugafola]

In sankaran, they used to play music when someone died often times day of. That stopped in the late 70s and now music would often be played when the mourning was finished. That could be days and or weeks.

As far as the type of music, Bolo said it often related to the type of job the person had. IE kassa konkoba sofa donso bundiani etc. or the family lineage IE Keita Kourouma/doumbia Mara etc.