World Rhythms Arts Program Presents West African Drum Dance

The rhythms and dances of Guinea, West Africa spring to life in this ground-breaking multimedia collection from award-winning author Kalani and noted world percussionist Ryan M. Camara! More than just a drumming book, this easy-to-use method immerses teachers and students in traditional West African music, dance and culture through a step-by-step curriculum that maintains cultural authenticity. The World Rhythms! Arts Program (WRAP) is a multiple-discipline curriculum that incorporates drumming, singing, dance, and culture. Rooted in traditional West African music and dance, WRAP helps develop essential arts and life skills through a holistic approach to music and movement education. A must for your classroom!

The rhythms and dances of Guinea, West Africa spring to life in this ground-breaking multimedia collection from award-winning author Kalani and noted world percussionist Ryan M. Camara! More than just a drumming book, this easy-to-use method immerses teachers and students in traditional West African music, dance and culture through a step-by-step curriculum that maintains cultural authenticity. The World Rhythms! Arts Program (WRAP) is a multiple-discipline curriculum that incorporates drumming, singing, dance, and culture. Rooted in traditional West African music and dance, WRAP helps develop essential arts and life skills through a holistic approach to music and movement education. A must for your classroom!

These volumes offer a one-stop resource for researching the lives, customs, and cultures of Africa's nations and peoples. Unparalleled in its coverage of contemporary customs in all of Africa, this multivolume set is perfect for both high school and public library shelves. The three-volume encyclopedia will provide readers with an overview of contemporary customs and life in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa through discussions of key concepts and topics that touch everyday life among the nations' peoples. While this encyclopedia places emphasis on the customs and cultural practices of each state, history, politics, and economics are also addressed. Because entries average 14,000 to 15,000 words each, contributors are able to expound more extensively on each country than in similar encyclopedic works with shorter entries. As a result, readers will gain a more complete understanding of what life is like in Africa's 54 nations and territories, and will be better able to draw cross-cultural comparisons based on their reading.

This latest collection of rhythms helps you take the next step in playing West African drums for dancers, in a group, or just for fun. Learn basic accompaniment parts, selected bass drum (dunun) and bell patterns and variations, and traditional djembe solos. Roots Jam 3 adds to the previous Roots Jam books in offering complete and cohesive ensemble arrangements for 16 popular dance rhythms. Included are lessons and exercises to help you understand basic downbeat, upbeat and offbeat timing; choose from available bell and clave patterns; and learn both traditional and improvised lead djembe solos. Practice listening to and playing parts with the optional audio CD (available from djemberhythms.com). Also featured is notation for 27 original compositions by Nowick Gray, with audio tracks on a second CD.Roots Jam 3 draws from Nowick Gray's experience studying with world drum masters and playing for dance classes, compiling 16 arrangements for West African Drum and Dance, along with original compositions and recordings.

With Freeman Kwazdo Donkor and Abraham Adzenyah. Based on four Ghanaian rhythmic groups (Sikyi, Adowa, Gahu and Akom), this book and CD will provide drumset players with a "new" vocabulary based on some of the oldest and most influential rhythms in the world. A groundbreaking presentation!

In-depth coverage of popular percussion instruments, including history, tuning, maintenance, techniques, exercises, ensembles, and more, from a world-renowned educator and performer, Kalani. This book comes with an enhanced CD featuring additional multimedia content, including demonstrations of all rhythms and techniques.

The book includes the link to download the HD demo files It's a well known fact that drumming is good for our health. It stimulates our brain in a very positive way, it helps balancing the body & mind and boosts our energy levels. The darbuka, a goblet shaped hand drum which has made its way from oriental music genres into the world of modern beats and western music. Nowadays it can even be heard in Pop music, Hip Hop, R 'n B and Dance! With its unique sounds, charming body shape, handy size and mesmerizing rhythms this drum is considered one of the most popular hand drums ever. No matter whether you're a drummer, dancer or dj, an excellent rhythm vocabulary and performance skills are essential elements for a solid foundation. Learning more about traditional cultural backgrounds provides you with a better understanding of the origins and authentic contexts. This book presents a unique selection of exciting belly dance rhythms from around the world for you: dancers, drummers and anyone else who is interested in the art of oriental music, rhythm, dance, culture...and beyond! Notice that this book was not designed as an ultimate guide covering every existing belly dance rhythm or darbuka technique. Above all, it serves as a source of inspiration! Most of the rhythms presented in this book feature interesting details about each rhythm and dance, as well as some extra traditional background information. I would like to stress that it's not important how fast you get through this book or how many rhythms you will learn. Take your time and make each rhythm feel good before proceeding to the next one. Just remember that learning has no boundaries! Ruben van Rompaey (Holland) is an award-winning master percussion artist and composer. He has become well known for his Eastern Expressions concept and is a internationally recognized specialist and educator of Oriental/World music & culture and Jazz. As a touring artist he performed at a variety of international music festivals, which has brought him to various places around the world such as USA, Europe, Japan, China, West Africa, Turkey and Egypt. Ruben has been a professor of drums and darbuka at the departments of Jazz and Turkish Music at Codarts University of Arts Holland (where he co-founded the darbuka department) and other universities around the world, before founding his Eastern Expressions International School of Drums & Percussion. Besides being active as a solo artist and educator, Ruben currently has eight solo albums released and two instructional dvd's. He is the author of articles for several magazines (Modern Drummer Magazine, a.o.) and educational books, for universities and oriental culture institutes on the subject of drums and darbuka, which have been translated into different languages.