The July Darbuka Challenge

Welcome to the month that is going to change your drumming lives!

Goodluck drummers!

Practice reference Video 1.

Day 1 audio.

Every practice session needs to start slowly and lightly. We need to warm up and get our fingers, hands, arms ready for what they are about to do. Once you learn more exercises you will simply choose the best ones for you (And the most fun ones). So from here on I will just write ‘warm up’ at the start of each session as a reminder to spend the first 10-15 minutes doing just that.

Team Turkish.
Warm up.
Continuous rolls over selected rhythms-Maqsum, Fallahi, Saiidi, Curcuna etc
Gouped rolls of 1, 2, 3 with different endings-See Video.

Team Arabia.

Not as easy as they look are they!? Good!
Does your ‘Ka’ stroke need extra attention? Perhaps you could spend the next ten minutes looking closely at this stroke. How about your ‘Dum.’ stroke? Slap? Mute? They all need some practice on their own. By isolating these strokes we can really make a big improvement on the way we play them. We will be doing a lot more isolation this month.
Now let’s practice our rolls/rizz. Just a simple ‘takatakataka’ at a nice easy tempo. This will give us a chance to look out for anything not working properly.

Finish todays session with some rhythm revue! Can you memorise these rhythms? Do you know many variations on these? Enjoy!

Ayub

Karatchi

Malfuf

Kaligi