- Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:55 pm
#18939
Please help me understand this. I sometimes see 2 dununs being played stacked horizontally by one person. I just assume its an adhoc setup useful when there is only one person playing dununs. But I wonder if this is even acceptable from the view of traditional rhythms and how they are supposed to be played? I only ever see Mamady Keita with either the three dununs played horizontally by 3 separate people or the 3 dununs played by one person in a vertical setup.
Here's an example of what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I484ErrX73Y
Further, most of the time I have trouble figuring out where does the pattern for this 2-horizontal-dunun setup come from? Is it just a combination of the dununba and sangban patterns pulled together with a single bell? But a lot of times what I've seen played in this setup doesn't directly translate from the traditional dunun patterns I know.
I want to understand this because I will be in a situation soon where there will only be 1 dunun player available, and I want to know how to properly play in this 2-horizontal-dunun setup and where the patterns come from.
Here's an example of what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I484ErrX73Y
Further, most of the time I have trouble figuring out where does the pattern for this 2-horizontal-dunun setup come from? Is it just a combination of the dununba and sangban patterns pulled together with a single bell? But a lot of times what I've seen played in this setup doesn't directly translate from the traditional dunun patterns I know.
I want to understand this because I will be in a situation soon where there will only be 1 dunun player available, and I want to know how to properly play in this 2-horizontal-dunun setup and where the patterns come from.