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Mel Bay The Bongo Book
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List Price: $17.95
$12.21
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on 11-29-2008.
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Paperback: 64 pages
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.; 1 edition June 15, 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786620714
ISBN-13: 978-0786620715
Product Dimensions:
11.4 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
Product Description
Here's an entire book devoted to the all too often overlooked Latin instrument, the bongo drums. Trevor Salloum guides you on an inspired informative, and educational musical journey; offering many valuable insights of playing this instrument as well as revealing its colorful history. This text features jazz, rock, Danzon, Mozambique, and bomba patterns with fills, exercises, and performance techniques to get you going in these styles. Maintenance, characteristic rhythmic patterns, and important artists in the evolution of bongo technique are also covered in depth. The companion CD features recordings of the rhythm patterns discussed in the book.
About The Author
Trevor Salloum has studied with Cuban master drummers Changuito, Enrique Pla, Roberto Vizcaiño, José Eladio Amat, José Miguel Meléndez, Cutumba and Los Muñequitos de Matanzas. He has made several trips to Cuba and studied at the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana in addition to music schools in Santiago and Guantanamo. Trevor has played music professionally in Canada and the United States for over 25 years. He has performed with Pat Labarbera, Armando Peraza, Alex Acuña, Jane Bunnett, Campbell Ryga, Ross Taggart, Brad Turner, Dee Daniels, Tommy Banks and Ian McDougall. He is a best selling author with Mel Bay Publications including Fun with Bongos, The Bongo Book, Bongo Drumming:Beyond the Basics, Afro-Latin Polyrhythms, and Afro-Cuban Rhythms. Trevor has taught percussion for over 20 years in Canada and the United States. Most recently he has been conducting Afro-Cuban percussion clinics as an artist in residence for the Vancouver School Board and for with the Britannia World Music Program in Vancouver, BC.
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Mel Bay The Bongo Book
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Price: $12.21
Updated on 11-29-2008.
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