Conga Tumbao Variations: Fast Tempo Jazz Feel by Ben Makinen
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Music producer, filmmaker and drummer Ben Makinen shares Tumbao variations for playing a conga at fast tempos with a jazz feel.
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By simplifying the marcha pattern (changing the heel/toe pattern to primarily toe) Ben shares his approach to playing Up Tempo Latin Jazz on one Conga Drum.
PLEASE consider: at fast tempos a "swing", or triplet feel, becomes "crunched" into a straighter 8th note feel. There really is no such thing as "The Jazz Feel". There are many feels to all music. Listen to a wide variety of jazz drummers and you will hear ride patterns that vary from wide open triplets, to strict triplets to straight 8th notes and everything in between!
Ben uses an excerpt from the song Oleo (Sonny Rollins) performed by the 1958 Miles Davis Sextet for educational purposes to demonstrate playing along to fast jazz with conga drum.
Drummers - please note that when recording a conga part in the studio you may want to abandon the marcha pattern (riding eighth notes) altogether and simply play a slap on 2 and open tone(s) on 4. Whatever the accent pattern (combination of slaps and open tones etc) you choose to play, leaving out the marcha, or ghosted eighth notes, can leave you with a cleaner sounding track with less likelihood of flamming between any other rhythm instruments being tracked.
I also forgot to mention in this video the importance of playing along to music without headphones or earbuds. While developing your feel and touch you must be hearing your drum directly or you risk overplaying (playing too loud) as well as failing to develop the subtle tones your hand creates on the drum head. Set up external speakers either in front of you or behind you and play along to the music at a medium volume while trying to keep your playing volume below that of the speaker's output. This way you can hear and "play along with" the recorded musicians.
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I really appreciated how you broke everything down. Tremendous. Thank you so much. 😊
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!
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Ben, you've saved my bacon!! Thanks so so much.
My pleasure - thanks for piggin out on my vid!
Great lesson, Ben. Thanks,
Alex
I am glad you enjoyed it Alex
Thanks for this. Very useful. Very generous of you.
You are most welcome Mick - have fun playing!
This is great, do you have the transcriptions still ...
Hey Ben Macaroni, great ideas. Thank you!
My pleasure! Thanks Robbing The Hut;-)
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.
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?
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
Hello - This is my newest Conga lesson - Please share this with drummers you know.
Thanks - Ben
Great variations - love the 'turn about'!
Thanks so much!
And a happy New year to you to Ben.
very nice
Super helpful and insightful video! PRACTICAL!!!! Thanks!
Drum Monk I’m glad you found this practical. I’ll be posting more this year- thanks for watching!
Thank you very much Ponch!
Thanks for a great post.
You’re most welcome bobgure! Thanks for watching.
Real nice Lesson Ben, ~ Thanks
Awesome!!!!! Digging this. Still have those transcriptions??? Would love one.
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😇
Really helpful thanks :)
JaySwiz You are welcome!
This really helped me, as an intermediate player, to keep up with a faster beat when my Tumbao isn't fast enough yet. Thanks!!!
Right on!
Very interesting and useful.
Thank you N!
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
Sounds good to me - thanks for sharing Mike!
Very coooooooooooooooooooool. Thanks a lot. I subscribed.
youuuuuuuuuuuu are mooooooost welcome:-)
Nice one Ben.
Christopher Talbot Thank you - and thanks for the link to the great Antonio Sanchez solo from your google+ page: that guy is incredible!
Good vid mate, learned alot. Cheers!
Mark Harris You’re welcome Mark. Happy New Years and thanks for your kind comment.
...and then when they point you for a conga solo.... Good Luck. Hahahahah great vid
Thank you Naz! Keep playin'!
Just no. you're great but just,,,, no on this.
Please explain
@@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 TH-cam:
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.