How to Solo (Guinean Style)

on your Djembe Workshop

including Technique, tonal sounds, rhythms and phrases. Dunun solo also.

 
DJEMBE SOLO EXPLAINED
with Alan Tauber
Friday, February 24, 2012
Learn what to do when it’s YOUR time to SOLO.

7PM - 9:00PM at The DrumRoom

For ALL drummers and beginners too. All welcome! It’s FUN!

Alan will begin with the basics and show you how to gradually expand your soloing technique... even if this is your first time. Using basic djembe technique and solo phrases we will learn how the masters do it and what they hear. Soloing to the dunun is a real art and we will get a big peek into all of it.

Solo expression and having FUN will be emphasized!

Please bring a recorder and maybe a pen and paper. And your djembe or use one of ours!

Full refreshment bar.

$30.- (cash, check or credit card)

All of our djembes will be on sale too so if you fall in love... you can own one:)

To get more info or to register, please call 781.648.0066 or email us (info@drumconnection.com) that you will attend. Limited to 10. We will send you a registration and confirmation email.

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DrumConnection

177 Mass Ave

Arlington, MA 02474


Store: 781-316-8068


We are open Tuesday - Sunday.


Hours:


Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 7PM

Sunday - Noon - 6PM

(closed Monday)


Store: 781-316-8068

Cell: 617-686-6080


Directions:


By car: You can easily find us about 0.5 mile from the Rt 16 intersection at Mass Ave where Cambridge becomes Arlington. Across from Lake Street (off Rt 2) and the Capital Theater. Directly across from the great restaurant, Flora. 


Parking:


2 hour free parking right outside our door on either side of Mass Ave. No spaces? Try a right-hand turn onto Winter St. and park on the Right. Or take Winter to the end, a Right on Broadway and your 1st Right onto Cleveland St. Go near the Mass Ave end and park on the Right or Left. 


Secret spots!


Across the street from DrumConnection is Cambridge Savings Bank and a parking lot. You can park there till 9:30PM. Easy. There are other side streets and more parking on the Quebrada BakeryCapital Theater side of Mass Ave. More secret parking as we find it.


By MBTA:


Take the Red Line to Alewife (the West end of the line). Walk the bike path to Thorndike Street and walk up Thorndike to Mass Ave. Take a Left onto Mass Ave and we are up on the Right about 4 blocks. Takes 13 minutes to walk and feels good!


Or grab a bus from Alewife or Harvard Square. 


MBTA buses:

#77 (Mass Ave/Winter)

#79 (Mass Ave/Winter)

#350 (Mass Ave/Winter)

#87 (Broadway/Winter)