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In this lesson, Michael Pluznick will cover basic accompaniment parts for playing in the 6/8 time signature in West African drumming. Most of the rhythms and rhythm arrangements played in West African djembe drumming from Guinea, Mali, Senegal and the surrounding areas are in 4/4, 6/8 and occasionally in 9/8 time signature. Sometimes the rhythms in 4/4 have 6/8 parts and sometimes a rhythm in 6/8 can be pulled into 4/4.
In this lesson you will learn basic accompaniment parts in the 6/8 time. We call these basic accompaniment parts "Passport parts" and that's because you can play them in a variety of rhythms.
Features:

• Basic Passport Part #1 for 6/8
• Guinea basic accompaniment part #1 in context
• Standard call-in, call-out (aka "break") used to start, change parts or to end a rhythm
• Mali Style Part #1 for 6/8
• Demonstration combining the Guinea and Mali parts
• Guinea Passport Part #2 for 6/8
• Djembe and West African Basic up beat and down beat, alternating hand over hand accompaniment part
• Mali Style Part #2 for 6/8
• Djaa and Sohko rhythms and call-in
• Slow motion segments to make learning easy
• Play along with the ensemble section
• Rare footage of Michael's teacher Aruna Sidibe in Mali
• Run time: 15:53