Drum circles can be interesting...if there are people who know anything about rhythm leading it...
I took a drum class and we learned all kinds of rhythms and what there original meaning was. Cubans were the only slave allowed to keep their drums, and alot of those traditional cuban rhythms are in a way protests against oppression. Santoria uses certain rhythms to talk to spirits...drums were the first form of recording history...but I guess if you are already turned off to drum circles all this may just sound like a bunch of hippy crap to you.
Heh.
We have master djembe players from Senegal and all over Africa here in the Pacific NW...so while we get the usual crowd of whities with dreads trying to express their love of humanity through free form rhythm, we also have quite a contingent of well educated and amazingly skilled drummers who are able to lead the rhythms.
If you have a cohesive group that is well versed in dialectic drumming, it is a completely different feel than a bunch of neo hippies beating on some goatskins.
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Date: 2003-07-24 01:47 pm (UTC)I took a drum class and we learned all kinds of rhythms and what there original meaning was. Cubans were the only slave allowed to keep their drums, and alot of those traditional cuban rhythms are in a way protests against oppression. Santoria uses certain rhythms to talk to spirits...drums were the first form of recording history...but I guess if you are already turned off to drum circles all this may just sound like a bunch of hippy crap to you.
Heh.
We have master djembe players from Senegal and all over Africa here in the Pacific NW...so while we get the usual crowd of whities with dreads trying to express their love of humanity through free form rhythm, we also have quite a contingent of well educated and amazingly skilled drummers who are able to lead the rhythms.
If you have a cohesive group that is well versed in dialectic drumming, it is a completely different feel than a bunch of neo hippies beating on some goatskins.
IMHO.