I really appreciated how you broke everything down. Tremendous. Thank you so much. 😊
@BmakinFilm6 ай бұрын
That makes me very happy to hear Linda - thank you. Best of luck w your music! I hope you'll check out the documentary films I have made: JazzTown and www.vimeo.com/ondemand/whokilledjazz I am also editing a doc on women in jazz! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGmVo5yKqrmXeZI
@toejam66132 жыл бұрын
Ben, you've saved my bacon!! Thanks so so much.
@BmakinFilm2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure - thanks for piggin out on my vid!
@SaltBushCity3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. Very useful. Very generous of you.
@BmakinFilm3 жыл бұрын
You are most welcome Mick - have fun playing!
@mongofan17 ай бұрын
Great lesson, Ben. Thanks, Alex
@BmakinFilm7 ай бұрын
I am glad you enjoyed it Alex
@bebobalula3 жыл бұрын
Hey Ben Macaroni, great ideas. Thank you!
@BmakinFilm2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure! Thanks Robbing The Hut;-)
@daveargall34544 жыл бұрын
Great variations - love the 'turn about'!
@BmakinFilm2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@GrootsieTheDog6 жыл бұрын
Awesome. As a relative newby, I discovered this one on my own but I thought I was "cheating" or "breaking the rules". This video is very revelatory because its opened up the idea that I don't have to follow rules as much as i thought. I found a video with the great CANDIDO CAMERO and on this particular vid he gets rid of the double strokes altogether. Just plays a straight tumbao alternating left/right the entire way. Your vid and his created a synthesis for me and inspired me to put together some "tumbao rudiments" that strengthen the ability to play the tumbao regardless of the hand pattern as well develop technique that allows one to throw in different accents and drums without loosing the tumbao groove and flow.
@BmakinFilm6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Cosmo - I am thrilled for your discovery and honored to have been a part of it. Music is about making sound, however you are able to make it. Sometimes rules and patterns are helpful and arguably necessary, sometimes they are neither :-) Play what you feel and play what the music needs. Let your creativity set you free. It is always good to know the rules before you break them. But in music, what came first: rules, or freedom to invent?
@daveargall34544 жыл бұрын
Interesting idea...I don't know exactly how Candido played it this way but it's made me think of alternating the 'heel toe' and all the strokes would be played on the opposite side following the two open tones. Thanks
@markharris45395 жыл бұрын
And a happy New year to you to Ben.
@drummonk36995 жыл бұрын
Super helpful and insightful video! PRACTICAL!!!! Thanks!
@BmakinFilm5 жыл бұрын
Drum Monk I’m glad you found this practical. I’ll be posting more this year- thanks for watching!
@bobgure6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for a great post.
@BmakinFilm6 жыл бұрын
You’re most welcome bobgure! Thanks for watching.
@dirtydan20076 жыл бұрын
very nice
@peacauve6 жыл бұрын
Very coooooooooooooooooooool. Thanks a lot. I subscribed.
@BmakinFilm6 жыл бұрын
youuuuuuuuuuuu are mooooooost welcome:-)
@Ponch3418 жыл бұрын
Real nice Lesson Ben, ~ Thanks
@jayswiz46519 жыл бұрын
Really helpful thanks :)
@BmakinFilm9 жыл бұрын
JaySwiz You are welcome!
@BmakinFilm8 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much Ponch!
@MrVegasTube7 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and useful.
@BmakinFilm7 жыл бұрын
Thank you N!
@2006crt9 жыл бұрын
Nice one Ben.
@BmakinFilm9 жыл бұрын
Christopher Talbot Thank you - and thanks for the link to the great Antonio Sanchez solo from your google+ page: that guy is incredible!
@markharris45395 жыл бұрын
Good vid mate, learned alot. Cheers!
@BmakinFilm5 жыл бұрын
Mark Harris You’re welcome Mark. Happy New Years and thanks for your kind comment.
@waynebij10 ай бұрын
This is great, do you have the transcriptions still ...
@BmakinFilm9 жыл бұрын
Hello - This is my newest Conga lesson - Please share this with drummers you know. Thanks - Ben
@Jrenglehorn3 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!!!! Digging this. Still have those transcriptions??? Would love one.
@BmakinFilm3 жыл бұрын
Hello - thanks for diggin! I have been trapped (pandemic) on other side of the world away from my computer... but i will write some of these out for you😇
@keitharoo19625 жыл бұрын
This really helped me, as an intermediate player, to keep up with a faster beat when my Tumbao isn't fast enough yet. Thanks!!!
@BmakinFilm5 жыл бұрын
Right on!
@SenSkywalking8 жыл бұрын
these are good to have but theres some easier variations. just me but i think the alternating 3 fill after your slap distorts the marcha "sound". i might leave it at a doubles roll w/right hand alternating slaps and opens to start and throw some optional rests around if you want to boil it down to singles
@BmakinFilm2 жыл бұрын
Sounds good to me - thanks for sharing Mike!
@nazarenodadamante87036 жыл бұрын
...and then when they point you for a conga solo.... Good Luck. Hahahahah great vid
@BmakinFilm2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Naz! Keep playin'!
@Pleasure1964 Жыл бұрын
Just no. you're great but just,,,, no on this.
@BmakinFilm Жыл бұрын
Please explain
@conga599 ай бұрын
@@BmakinFilmI think that he maybe see and hear that when you get faster the quality of the sounds you produce decrease especially because of your right hand and also surely because what ever you play here has to be related to the music in terms of how to incorporate your pattern In the drum s’ one. what we clearly hear too is that you stay focused on the tempo but not on what is happening IN the music. Of course you could reply that it is not true but as a percussionist since 44 years I strongly recommend you to check how to play a proper tumbao using the heel_toe technique on KZbin: conga lesson Changuito-evolution of the tumbadoras congas- You can go at 9.35 minutes when they start to talk about all the different strokes -on el tambor- With respect have a good one and thank you for the ideas and for everything you said which is so true.