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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Legacy Percussion
This collection of educational and performance videos represents the culmination of 4 decades of studying, performing, teaching, and writing about world percussion, with a new video uploaded each week to the end of 2018. Although geared toward the drummer/percussionist, the underlying concepts can benefit all musicians, composers, and arrangers.
VIDEO #3: Atsimevu master drum
This video demonstrates the master drum for Agbekor. The Atsimevu (pronounced ah-chee-meh-voo) is the tallest of the Ewe drums. To play the atsimevu, the drummer must lean it over a stand called vudetsi, stand on one side, and play it with either two wooden sticks or one hand and one stick. The themes recited in video #1 are analyzed and played on the Atsimevu, with six primary drum tones explained.
Atsimevu instructors and influences:
David Locke, Godwin Agbeli, Nani Agbeli, Reuben Agbeli, Royal Hartigan, Ben Paulding
• Backing track of Agbekor groove (bell, totoji, kagan, bells) recorded by Randy Roos.
• Video and audio of the Atsimevu recorded at Berklee College by Jerry Leake using iMovie and a Blue Yeti microphone.
VIDEO #4 introduces Harmonic Time for internalizing Agbekor patterns and languages.
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Atsimevu:
music.africamus...
www.richardhodg...
Dagbe Center:
www.dagbeinstit...
Royal Hartigan:
• Agbekor Ewe Music and ...
Traditional Performance:
• Agbekor Ewe Music and ...
Books and Articles:
www.rhombuspubl...
www.africantrea...
sellfy.com/p/q...
sellfy.com/p/Z...
CDs:
www.rhombuspubl...
www.rhombuspubl...
www.rhombuspubl...
Groups:
www.natrajmusic...
clubdelf.com
agbekorsociety.org
Colleagues:
/ royalhar. .
/ benpaulding
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Jerry Leake is an Associate Professor of Percussion at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory. Jerry leads the world-rock-fusion octet Cubist whose four CDs feature his skill as a composer, arranger, and performer. He is a founding member of the indo/jazz band Natraj and the dub/trance/groove collective Club d’Elf.
Jerry studied Ewe drumming with David Locke, Godwin Agbeli and his sons Nani, Reuben and Emmanuel, and Dagomba drumming with Dolsi-naa Alhaji Abubakari Lunna and Locke. He studied North Indian tabla with Rajeev Devasthali and Todd Nardin, and South Indian mridangam with T. K. Ramakrishnan. Additional rhythm theory has been gained through his association with sarodist and scholar, George Ruckert.
Jerry graduated from Berklee College where he studied jazz vibraphone with Gary Burton and Ed Saindon, and hand percussion with Pablo Landrum. He has written eight texts on world percussion, articles for PAS magazine, and manuals for solo drum set
(www.rhombuspubl...).
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Videos 1-29, 31, 33, and 39 recorded and mixed by Randy Roos on December 28 & 29, 2017 at Squam Sound.
Series Contents:
#1. Agbekor solo: • Legacy Percussion 1: A...
#2. Agbekor solo analysis: • Legacy Percussion 2: A...
#3. Atsimevu master drum: • Legacy Percussion 3: A...
#4. Harmonic Time: • Legacy Percussion 4:: ...
#5. Agbekor Bell w/ 2 Cross-Rhythm: • Legacy Percussion 5: ...
#6. Agbekor Bell w/ 3 Cross-Rhythm: • Legacy Percussion 6: A...
#7. Agbekor Bell w/ 4 Cross-Rhythm: • Legacy Percussion 7: A...
#8. Agbekor Bell w/ 6 Cross-Rhythm: • Legacy Percussion 8: A...
#9. Agbekor Bell w/ 8 Cross-Rhythm: • Legacy Percussion 9: A...
#10. 6+4 African Styles: • Legacy Percussion 10: ...
#11. African Bell Meets Indian Math: • Legacy Percussion 11: ...
#12. Palo Bell 24/8: • Legacy Percussion 12: ...
#13: Adzogbo 24/8: • Legacy Percussion 13: ...
#14: Benin 24/8: • Legacy Percussion 14: ...
#15: Gahu drum solo: • Legacy Percussion 15: ...
#16: Gahu analysis: • Legacy Percussion 16: ...
#17: Dagomba, gung-gong: Jebo (invocation): • Legacy Percussion 17: ...
#18: Dagomba: Na Yella Bo: • Legacy Percussion 18: ...
#19: Dagomba: Tora song with 323 clap: • Legacy Percussion 19: ...
#20: Frame Drum: A Quality of Six: • Legacy Percussion 20: ...
#21: South Indian Reductions: • Legacy Percussion 21: ...
#22: Riq Improvisation: • Legacy Percussion 22: ...
Amazing tutorials,.. You seems quite well verse in your lecture. No wonder you stated it takes 40yrs of learning and studying... Congrats
this is some wonderful motivic phrasing, so nice. i hope this extraordinary tradition of drumming will keep going on in the future generations. Thank you Mr. Leake
Great mic'ing of drum. Most of times I have seen/heard the Astimevu of TH-cam, the recording didn't do justice to the tone of the instrument.
Excellent, as some one who hails from the part of Ghana where this drum is traditional to, am exited to see this.