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Origins of the Doumbek African Drum
How to Hold a Doumbek African Drum
Basic Doumbek African Drum Strikes: The Doum
Basic Doumbek African Drum Strikes: The Tek
Basic Doumbek African Drum Strikes: The Caa
Basic Doumbek African Drum Strikes: The Slap
Putting Doumbek Strikes Together
How to Play Doumbek Strikes
Doumbek Strike Exercises
Basic Doumbek African Drum Rhythms: The Ayub
Basic Doumbek African Drum Rhythms: The Beledi
Basic Doumbek African Drum Rhythms: The Malfuf
Doumbek African Drum Demonstration
Summary: Play the doum, tek, caa and slap strikes on the doumbek at different speeds; learn how with tips from our doumbek drum expert and player in this free doumbek video tutorial.
Alex Spurkel has over 20 years experience with both Western and non-Western drumming traditions and studied Doumbek under master Lebanese drummer Souhail Kaspar. He is one of the most...read more
"Hi, this is Alex Spurkel of Naked Rhythm and Universal Drumming, on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip, we're going to do the third practice drill, and this one's based on triplets. Triplets are units of three--one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three. We have two different ways that we're going to approach them. The first is going to be doubling up with the right hand, meaning that we play a Ka on the one, and two, three are Teks. Done slowly, Ka, Tek, Tek, Ka, Tek, Tek, Ka, Tek, Tek, Ka, Tek, Tek, Ka, Tek, Tek, Ka, Tek, Tek. And a little bit faster. Second variation is the exact inverse of that, where we play Tek on the one, and Ka on the two and three. This time we're doubling up on the Ka, which makes it a little bit more difficult because it's a harder strike for most people. Done slowly, Tek, Ka, Ka, Tek, Ka, Ka, Tek, Ka, Ka, Tek, Ka, Ka, Tek, Ka, Ka, Tek, Ka, Ka. And a little bit faster."
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vyk1345 said
on 8/26/2009 This is an excellent video. I am taking professional drum lessons once a week. These exercises helped me to improve my speed as well as breaking hand patterns that I had developed from playing only two or three rhythms at first.