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Bembe Wheel coordination

  • March 14, 2013
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Here are some generic snare drum and bass drum coordination/performance patterns for use with the bell patterns in the Bembe Wheel. Each one of those patterns deserves at least one individually-tailored “page o’ coordination”, but […]

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African bell pattern and its inversions

  • March 11, 2013
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What we have here is the familiar 12/8 or 6/8 bell pattern (here called “short”; in the US it’s commonly called “Afro-Cuban”, or Naningo, or Bembé), run through several common inversions, each starting on a […]

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