Excellent!! Drum kit for 14 years, Bongos for 3 years, Congas for 6 years, Djembe for 2 years and I have now just bought my first Darbuka. Am excited about getting into this one!! :-)
I appreciate your instruction videos and so do several members of our hand drum circle/event group. We all play (attempt to play) various types and are beginning to discover that some of the techniques are applicable to other hand drums. Personally, I really enjoy my doumbeks (darbukas, etc) and a good instructor, like yourself, is a welcome find, here in small town USA. Thanks again.
I just got my darbuka from meinl yesterday. Thanks for this tutorial! It makes it even for someone who usually isn't that adept with his hands easy to learn it. I appreciate that!
Karol you're so patient and inspirational. thanks a lot for sharing these tutorials! i'm a self taught player and i realised how many minute details in the techniques that i've missed out on, and thanks to you i can improve my playing in so many ways :)
Karol, I just bought a couple of Darbukas and we find your tutorials are the best. Very easy to understand, Easy to follow along as our skill grows with each lesson. We really like the fact that you include visual notation. Thanks for posting!
GREAT! GREAT! Two guys in front of me responded with caution about the technology. I can not judge about the technology. But the manner of presentation - I fell in love with you right away! Immediately! :), method of teaching with the board, is that her show - Excellent! GREAT! Bravo! Bravo! For many others it is much less clear. Thank you very much! Please Teach rolling his left hand. :)
"Whoah, did you see that? That's amazing!" Thanks a lot, I nearly spit my drink on my keyboard. :-) Love it! Thanks though. I play a little djembe, but love the sound of the Darkuba and want to try it!
Kiedys na pchlim targu kupilem darbuke. Wowczas nie wiedzialem ze to darbuka. To video oraz kokejne lekcje pokazaly mi w koncu jak trzymac darbuke, jak na niej grac oraz czytac zapis... Karol jestes wielki. Dz
Thanks a lot KarWil for this great tutorial ! It has been very helpful. I'm making a translation in french of all these tutorial videos for a friend, but it would be a shame not to share it with everyone. The problem is I don't have any idea on how to include subtitles on a video ! If anyone feels like doing it, I'll try posting the translations as a comment for each video, feel free to use and broadcast it ;-)
Thank you so much! You just saved my life! I have to play a gig next week on the Darbuka and I've never played it before. At least now I know how to hold it right and how to stroke it :-) In case there are some arabs in the audience ;-)
Thank you! 🙏🏼✨ Editing my comment to add that I have watched a lot of music tutorials on TH-cam. This was the best lesson I have found for beginners on this instrument. Hands down. Very grateful.
I have played Darbuka in my own way for some time - having played for belly dance groups (have been a drum teacher - drum kit - for some 30 years, and rock drummer even longer playing pubs and clubs. But these days prefer hand drums such as congas, tabla and the Darbuka. But I finally want to learn Darbuka in a traditional, correct way. So, here I am. I have perused many, many You Tube sites on this, and I find this one the best - have looked through a pile of your lessons, and they make sense, and are in such good order from beginning to more advanced. This is good teaching with no showing off before a student is ready. Some off-beat humour also helps, ha ha. Too many music teachers can be too serious about it all :) Full marks, Karol ! Will be studying all your You Tube lessons over the next few months and beyond. Cheers, and Thank you! Dennis (Australia).
Wow...just saw this since i just interesred in drums. Wonderful. You made it look so easy. Hope it does when i get my hands on a Darbuka, though. Thanks for the video lesson.
Goddamn! Exactly what I needed. You are proof that we live in good times. Because sometimes what we desire is knowledge, and in that, Google is often a Genie. Thank you sir. Your teaching method deserves worthy acknowlegment!
Really like your presentation. Clear, friendly and fun. You’re a great teacher. My only wish would be to have the blackboard rhythms available as pdf downloads.
You are amazing! I have an instructional video and although the instructor is slow in demonstrating I couldn't quite get it. YOU, I got the first time around :D
Hahahahaha!! I loved your “wow” did you see that” it’s amazing!!” Great video. Very clear, simple and compact. Thank you very much, it helped me a lot. I’m a classical percussionist, and I have to play darbouka it my next Symphony Orchestra program. We are playing “The Peacemakers” by Karl Jenkins. It’s on the number 6: “Healing Light: a Celtic prayer”. Could you recommend me some rhythm that fits to this music?
Thank you so much! This is a very good tute, and you're pretty funny too. Thanks again, I began 30 minutes ago, and I'm already sensing progress, you're a great teacher! The video goes a bit too fast for me, but I'ml a solow pupil ;-)
@ashenhooves I play a two-fingered doum (hitting with my finger pads, not tips) since I first began playing on a small headed darbuka. When playing the full four fingered doum, my drum sounded dead, but with the smaller, more controllable two-fingered doum, it came alive.
Thank you sir you do a very precise explanation of how to do this correctly. I did not no to try and just use your wrist but I played jembe first and it is diferent in that way.
Karol Wilkoszewski is mine 1st best vidi teacher. I'd like to meet with him face by face like thanking with him exectly. He is best of best teacher to me.
Excellent tutorial. Got interested as I'm about to buy a darbuka for my son but this video made me want to learn it myself. CAN YOU PLEASE ADVISE WHAT TYPE OF DARBUKA I SHOULD BUY? I saw different types at the store, wooden, leather, metallic, etc... do they all sound the same?? What is your darbuka (one in the video) made of?? Thanks in advance.
Hey Kimi. Meanwhile I got it to work for my right hand (I'm a lefty). Actually the hand isn't too weak, it's just a strange angle from which you can't hit the drum with enough force. So I put my wrist a good distance away from the rim, keeping the drum fixed with the elbow instead. This allows me to move my whole hand, giving me the force to produce a tone almost as loud as with the other hand. Perhaps I have to change this playing technique once I get a modern Darbuka.
Great video. For the doum, i have seen other techniques where the hand isnt cupped but flat to create the open doum tone. Is this a certain style with the cupped (versus flat) hand on the doum sound?
So glad I came across your videos. Ive been playing drumset for about 6 years now and I've always been fascinated by middle eastern music. Sometimes I simulate the sounds of the darbuka on my drumset (bass drum+snare). However, I'm wanting to give my wrists/arms a break and pick up another instrument/drum. Where can I find a Darbuka and about how much are they? I'll more than likely be buying used. Any tips on picking out a good one/what to look for? Thanks in advance!!
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10 years later, someone is still watching this video. Thank you for this video, my friend! It is very helpful!
13 years
You made that look way too easy! Thank you for simplifying it. Now to buy one!
amazingly beautiful and direct video without show and ego trips. very pleasant instructor. respect man!
Excellent!! Drum kit for 14 years, Bongos for 3 years, Congas for 6 years, Djembe for 2 years and I have now just bought my first Darbuka. Am excited about getting into this one!! :-)
Your free lessons are far better than certain web site's paid-for gold package lessons.
I appreciate your instruction videos and so do several members of our hand drum circle/event group. We all play (attempt to play) various types and are beginning to discover that some of the techniques are applicable to other hand drums. Personally, I really enjoy my doumbeks (darbukas, etc) and a good instructor, like yourself, is a welcome find, here in small town USA. Thanks again.
Subscribed after 10 yrs... is a record in itself...😃
Eleven years later...wow. Amazing lesson. Can’t wait to watch the next one
I just got my darbuka from meinl yesterday. Thanks for this tutorial! It makes it even for someone who usually isn't that adept with his hands easy to learn it. I appreciate that!
Karol you're so patient and inspirational. thanks a lot for sharing these tutorials! i'm a self taught player and i realised how many minute details in the techniques that i've missed out on, and thanks to you i can improve my playing in so many ways :)
That was pretty cool. I could watch you make tutorials all day. You make things seem interesting.
thank you so much! you're far the best teacher I found YT :)
Karol, I just bought a couple of Darbukas and we find your tutorials are the best. Very easy to understand, Easy to follow along as our skill grows with each lesson. We really like the fact that you include visual notation. Thanks for posting!
You are a great teacher, and seem like a really nice person! Thank you so much for these tutorials :X Greetings form a darbuka enthusiast in Romania!
Best tutorials I have ever seen!. Very clear and well demonstrated. THANK YOU!!!
I love it, thx for this lesson! I love the sound of the darbuka, I'm from Morocco and the darbuka is a very populair instrument in Morocco.
Super! Dzięki za krótkie i treściwe wprowadzenie :)
I enjoy your videos. You are a gifted darbuka teacher. Clear. Concise. Fun :-)
GREAT! GREAT! Two guys in front of me responded with caution about the technology. I can not judge about the technology. But the manner of presentation - I fell in love with you right away! Immediately! :), method of teaching with the board, is that her show - Excellent! GREAT! Bravo! Bravo! For many others it is much less clear. Thank you very much! Please Teach rolling his left hand. :)
"Whoah, did you see that? That's amazing!" Thanks a lot, I nearly spit my drink on my keyboard. :-) Love it! Thanks though. I play a little djembe, but love the sound of the Darkuba and want to try it!
Je vous remercie de pouvoir faire des cours sur TH-cam qui me permettrons d'évoluer avec la derbouka bonne continuation et merci encore
Thank you very much for your first lesson . You are a clever and nice teacher !
thank you for giving me inspiration and I get to know about darbuka. thank you very much..........
Kiedys na pchlim targu kupilem darbuke. Wowczas nie wiedzialem ze to darbuka. To video oraz kokejne lekcje pokazaly mi w koncu jak trzymac darbuke, jak na niej grac oraz czytac zapis...
Karol jestes wielki. Dz
Thanks a lot KarWil for this great tutorial ! It has been very helpful.
I'm making a translation in french of all these tutorial videos for a friend, but it would be a shame not to share it with everyone. The problem is I don't have any idea on how to include subtitles on a video !
If anyone feels like doing it, I'll try posting the translations as a comment for each video, feel free to use and broadcast it ;-)
I just learned from watching my uncles, never knew it was so technical 😂
Very good and clean tutorial...big laugh at the end when appear the partiture on the wall!!!
Anyone waching this in 2020.by the way I’m practicing my darubka drum from you.
Thank you so much! You just saved my life! I have to play a gig next week on the Darbuka and I've never played it before. At least now I know how to hold it right and how to stroke it :-) In case there are some arabs in the audience ;-)
What a wonderful video!! you are a great teacher!!! Thank you!
I swear to god I've been practicing for 1 hour, I watched your video and I literally feel like I unlocked my darbuka lol, shit's wild all of a sudden
One of the clearest videos.
great cultural lesson. Grew up watching Setrak and the oriental belly dancers on TV
Merytorycznie i bardzo fajnie przeprowadzona lekcja ! Świetnie !
I like that he makes it easy and his explainations are clear
Thank you! 🙏🏼✨ Editing my comment to add that I have watched a lot of music tutorials on TH-cam. This was the best lesson I have found for beginners on this instrument. Hands down. Very grateful.
If you need something in darbouka im here i can teach u 🙏😍
Love it! Thanks! Very helpful to know how to hold the drum and how to make the sounds.
I have played Darbuka in my own way for some time - having played for belly dance groups (have been a drum teacher - drum kit - for some 30 years, and rock drummer even longer playing pubs and clubs. But these days prefer hand drums such as congas, tabla and the Darbuka. But I finally want to learn Darbuka in a traditional, correct way. So, here I am. I have perused many, many You Tube sites on this, and I find this one the best - have looked through a pile of your lessons, and they make sense, and are in such good order from beginning to more advanced. This is good teaching with no showing off before a student is ready. Some off-beat humour also helps, ha ha. Too many music teachers can be too serious about it all :) Full marks, Karol ! Will be studying all your You Tube lessons over the next few months and beyond. Cheers, and Thank you! Dennis (Australia).
GREAT JOB! Very nice way to teach, clearly and with sympathy. Following.
Very clear and enjoyable. Thank you!
Wow...just saw this since i just interesred in drums. Wonderful. You made it look so easy. Hope it does when i get my hands on a Darbuka, though. Thanks for the video lesson.
Thank You Master! You did it very easy to learn, just few explanation and a very cool results!
eu sou brasileiro, percussionista e um grande admirador da música árabe. essa aula foi ótima adorei.
Excellent lessons, thank you very much for your time and knowledge. This helped me a lot!
Goddamn! Exactly what I needed. You are proof that we live in good times. Because sometimes what we desire is knowledge, and in that, Google is often a Genie. Thank you sir. Your teaching method deserves worthy acknowlegment!
OMG! ur amazing)))) in Moskow i cant find the teacher and i didn't mean that video lessons can be so good.... thank you so much for your lessons
your method is really great. thank you so much. I'll try and learn more with you from now on
Thank you, my first lesson and I loved it!
Really like your presentation. Clear, friendly and fun. You’re a great teacher. My only wish would be to have the blackboard rhythms available as pdf downloads.
Take a screenshot of the blackboard image. Stick it in a pdf if you like, but I just keep them in a folder.
this video is great! I'm from Costa Rica and I found very interesting the video, thank you!
im tabla ,banjo,cajon, congo,dholak player.. but i believe i learn this quick. thanks for teaching
Now I have to subscribe to this channel and buy one of these things. I'm hooked .....
Really useful - very clear and well presented! Thanks!
Love the darbuka. My favorite instrument!!!
Cool lesson and incredible video. Thanks for sharing your playing and cool sense of humor! Greetings and likes from Brazil!
bndir
rapharigoti
love ur videos so much, just bought the same darbuka as you it sounds great!!
You are amazing! I have an instructional video and although the instructor is slow in demonstrating I couldn't quite get it. YOU, I got the first time around :D
Amazingly simple to understand.. Much gratitude!
Hahahahaha!! I loved your “wow” did you see that” it’s amazing!!” Great video. Very clear, simple and compact. Thank you very much, it helped me a lot.
I’m a classical percussionist, and I have to play darbouka it my next Symphony Orchestra program. We are playing “The Peacemakers” by Karl Jenkins. It’s on the number 6: “Healing Light: a Celtic prayer”. Could you recommend me some rhythm that fits to this music?
Your lessons are useful and enjoyable - thanks.
I've never seen a video like that. Great job!
Thank you for the lesson and your teaching presentation was informative and up beat. I know now what I didn't 5 minutes ago.
Thanks a lot!!! Greetings from Mexico...
Great tutoral! You make it look so easy.
Thanks for sharing your great instructional video. Great beats!
Exellent teaching methods! Thanks for the lessons.
The rhythm starts at 3:25 (in case you wanna practise).
Very good explanation. You are a very good teacher.
You are a great teacher. I wish I can take private lessons with you.
Good video..........thanks bro...............good luck from SriLanka
Thank you so much! This is a very good tute, and you're pretty funny too. Thanks again, I began 30 minutes ago, and I'm already sensing progress, you're a great teacher! The video goes a bit too fast for me, but I'ml a solow pupil ;-)
@ashenhooves I play a two-fingered doum (hitting with my finger pads, not tips) since I first began playing on a small headed darbuka. When playing the full four fingered doum, my drum sounded dead, but with the smaller, more controllable two-fingered doum, it came alive.
Thanks for this lesson and the others ; it helps me so much to learn Darbouka
you are amazing! I want to learn and you got a new follower! thank you
Fantastic tutorial!! very good and I like how you had a piece at the end for us learners to try out .. I have just subscribed
Thank you sir you do a very precise explanation of how to do this correctly. I did not no to try and just use your wrist but I played jembe first and it is diferent in that way.
You amazing man,,, short and to the point
Very good description and presentation
Thanx so much for this lesson.
Your life is blessed!
Great lesson, gave me a good start!
These are great, thanks for uploading.
Thank you from Riyadh!
Karol Wilkoszewski is mine 1st best vidi teacher. I'd like to meet with him face by face like thanking with him exectly. He is best of best teacher to me.
Excellent tutorial. Got interested as I'm about to buy a darbuka for my son but this video made me want to learn it myself. CAN YOU PLEASE ADVISE WHAT TYPE OF DARBUKA I SHOULD BUY? I saw different types at the store, wooden, leather, metallic, etc... do they all sound the same?? What is your darbuka (one in the video) made of?? Thanks in advance.
thank you for this informative excellent series.. :)
Hey Kimi. Meanwhile I got it to work for my right hand (I'm a lefty). Actually the hand isn't too weak, it's just a strange angle from which you can't hit the drum with enough force. So I put my wrist a good distance away from the rim, keeping the drum fixed with the elbow instead. This allows me to move my whole hand, giving me the force to produce a tone almost as loud as with the other hand. Perhaps I have to change this playing technique once I get a modern Darbuka.
Thanks so much for share this knolwedge to all!!!!
Watching this right now 🔥 thanks
yuh i just practice with this video. thank you for it. it was perfect.x
Thanks so much. What is the difference between the big T,K, D and the small ones?
Great video. For the doum, i have seen other techniques where the hand isnt cupped but flat to create the open doum tone. Is this a certain style with the cupped (versus flat) hand on the doum sound?
I just bought that exact same Darbuka today!
Thank you so much keep posting lessons please
So glad I came across your videos. Ive been playing drumset for about 6 years now and I've always been fascinated by middle eastern music. Sometimes I simulate the sounds of the darbuka on my drumset (bass drum+snare). However, I'm wanting to give my wrists/arms a break and pick up another instrument/drum. Where can I find a Darbuka and about how much are they? I'll more than likely be buying used. Any tips on picking out a good one/what to look for?
Thanks in advance!!
Thanks a lot from Greece :)
thank you man you-your videos are awesome !
Great Works... Best of luck..
Best video posted!! Thanks allot very nice!!
Just bought a Doumbek, this helped, thanks :-)
Hi there, love your video, easy to follow. I just want to know what is the size of the darbuka? Thanks!