Learn and remember djembe rhythms the easy way, with visual box notation.
Whether you are a beginning drummer mystified by complex traditional polyrhythms, or an advanced drummer seeking a ready resource of new rhythm inspirations, Roots Jam 2 provides you with an essential and comprehensive toolkit of beats, lessons, and tips for practice and performance.
* See at a glance how ensemble parts and polyrhythms fit together.
* Compare and draw from multiple ethnic drumming traditions.
* Mix and match fun ensemble arrangements and breaks.
* Access audio tracks to match the written notation.
Nowick Gray is a drumming performer and teacher with thirty years of experience playing West African rhythms. His popular Roots Jam rhythm books, YouTube videos, audio compositions and instructional web pages have helped beginning, intermediate and performing drummers understand and play traditional African-based rhythms since 1996.
Roots Jam 2, “an ultimate drumming reference,” gives you a comprehensive collection of Afro-Cuban, Haitian, and Brazilian rhythms such as samba and rumba, along with a West African rhythm collection from Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Burkina Faso. Learn parts for kenkeni, sangban, dununba; congas, djembes, ashikos; and shekere and batucada instruments such as agogo bells. A bonus section of Middle Eastern rhythms is also included.
Empower yourself to take that quantum leap, to the full ecstasy and power of the drum. Pick up your copy of Roots Jam 2 today by clicking the Buy Now button at the top of this page.
