Bara dunun

[Paul]

Would like to learn some of this stuff......

[bubudi]

hi paul, i haven't been able to find any instructional material on it, but from these videos you can see that the playing style is a lot more into the skin and moving sideways somewhat, in order to get different tones. the bowl shape gives the tones that wonderful bouncy quality reminiscent of tablas.

[Paul]

Thanks man.. They are really going for it in the second video.. the style is quite different.. In alot of the gigs I saw it really seemed as if one of the drums was holding a sanban like pattern (with alot of variation) and the other a more constant groove... Hypnotic stuff..

[Dugafola]

some friends of mine here are from Ouaga and they play the Bara as well.

not a whole lot of recordings with bara on them.

the burkina faso percussion DVD that was released a few years ago has some Bara playing on it.