Learn To Play Conga Drums: Tone Fundamentals & Basic Rhythms

Musically cultivate your own unique sound, and embrace the basic tones and conga fundamental rhythms step-by-step.

What you’ll learn
Identify how to produce the basic tones on conga drums
Students will learn basic conga rhythms that will create a solid foundation in learning more complex rhythms and techniques
Students will learn to understand how to develop and nurture their own sound on conga drums
Have confidence to further explore the inner creativity learning congas and other hand percussion
Requirements
No experience needed. Only a willingness to learn and have at least have a conga drum to start playing.
Description
My name is Willie Garza. I’m a music educator with real world professional experience. I provide people customized focused music education, so you can keep music in your life as a source of human expression, invoking imagination.At the end of this course, you’ll know how to practice and apply the basic hand strokes, techniques and apply fundamental conga rhythms that are taught in this course. You will understand how to produce and cultivate your own distinctive sound that only you can determine.My course is designed as if you were taking a private lesson. We first embark on the four individual key hand stokes in depth such as an open tone, slap tone, and heel & toe technique.Now, just think, once you understand those four basic hand techniques, you will know how to play several conga rhythms such as; Marcha, Chachachá, Tumbao, Basic Samba Rhythm, and the “Funky” all around type of groove. That is pretty-cool! Right?This course is constructed for beginners of all ages, for people who already play drums, or percussion, who want to understand how to produce a good sound on conga drums. In the end, it is all about learning, having fun and keeping music and rhythm in your life to enjoy.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction| Open Tone Technique

Lecture 1 Introduction| Open Tone Technique

Section 2: Slap Tone Technique

Lecture 2 Slap Tone Technique

Section 3: Heel & Toe Technique

Lecture 3 Heel & Toe Technique

Section 4: Basic Conga Rhythm

Lecture 4 Basic Conga Rhythm

Section 5: Marcha Conga Rhythm

Lecture 5 Marcha Conga Rhythm

Section 6: Cha-Cha-Cha Rhythm

Lecture 6 Cha-Cha-Cha Rhythm

Section 7: Bass & Press Tone Technique

Lecture 7 Bass & Press Tone Technique

Section 8: Tumbao Rhythm

Lecture 8 Tumbao Rhythm

Section 9: Basic Samba Rhythm

Lecture 9 Basic Samba Rhythm

Section 10: Basic “Funky” All Around Type of Groove

Lecture 10 Basic “Funky” All Around Type of Groove

This course is for the beginner who just wants to have fun and learn it’s also for the serious musician who wants to be a professional. The course gives an introduction on the basic tones and tone-exercises and introductory rhythms. This book provides a simple concept that is based on feeling the rhythm by counting and relating it to how it feels along with the conga strokes. I have eliminated the step of taking the time to learn how to read and understand rhythmic notation to allow a person to play quickly and easily. I don’t create new shapes or symbols to identify hand strokes like some of the other conga methods books have. I do not reinvent the wheel but give you a method to learn an old teaching. For instance, counting to four, knowing left from right and the alphabet. A teacher once said to me, “Being able to read music is a common commodity, anybody can learn how to do it, but being able to just get up and play is quit something else.”