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| Conga Drumming: A Beginner's Guide to Playing With Time W/ CD | 
 enlarge | Authors: Alan Dworsky, Betsy Sanby
Publisher: Dancing Hands Music
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 334965
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Beginners
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 159
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0963880101
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
UPC: 029156220681
EAN: 9780963880109
ASIN: 0963880101
Publication Date: 1994
Release Date: July 25, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
This book will teach any musician, step by step, how to play the conga drum using authentic Afro-Cuban rhythms: calypso, bomba, conga, rumba and bembe. The clear text, life-like illustrations and simple charts make learning to play these beats easy, even for non-musicians. The player can hear all 175 rhythms in the book on the included CD.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
Doesn't use standard notation October 3, 2007
Great Conga book. Was recommended to me by others. The only thing that I don't like about this books is that it doesn't use standard notation.
Excellent introductory book April 22, 2007
I found this book invaluable for learning the basics of conga drumming without a teacher. I used it for several months before hitting my first conga class, and was really glad I had worked with the book. I was able to pick up right away with the rest of the class on several of the rhythms. However, I will warn anyone using the book that this drumming world is steeped with "variations". That is, you'll frequently find that your teacher is using a slightly different variation than the one taught in the book. This is fine, however, since it's usually easy to alter what you're doing slightly.
One of the more impressive aspects of the methods in this book is the holistic approach, for example, teaching how to feel the clave underneath the rhythms you're playing. The book also does about as good a job as any book can at teaching the hand technique, although I highly recommend complementing this with good videos of accomplished conga players. Youtube, for example, is a great resource. Here again, though, you will find different philosophies of technique, and again your teacher may have his own emphasis.
Almost everything you'd ever need to play conga January 23, 2007
This book is extremely readable and it teaches you terrific grooves right from the get-go. I'm a pianist who has decided to learn some percussion and I am having a blast learning to play the conga. Even my non-musician girlfriend has learned some of this stuff!
Love the book; like their notation July 11, 2002
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I agree with all the other reviewers... this is a great book for beginners and advanced (as well as folks somewhere in the middle, like me).One thing I didn't expect to like, since I can read regular music notation, was their concocted music notation. To my surprise, I like theirs better. It's very intuitive, and after a while, you can pretty much sight-read the rhythms. If I hear/see a conga pattern I like in the future, I'll probably write it down using their notation.
Very clear and simple way of learning the Congas November 26, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Very recommended! I think Alan Dworsky used a very clear graphic way of teaching the Conga playing, without getting into music reading instead, he uses symbols for the diferent strokes, and easy numbers. It is great for begginers but stil a good book for advanced players, because it goes through many aspects of the conga.
If you are into conga playing, get this book for the price of half a conga lesson I am sure you will get some mileage out of it. I have been playing congas for years and I discovered a few things in this book I didn't know. Go for it! (...)
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