Bembe Conversations
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:25 pm
I just got my hands on a GREAT book on Bembe!
It's a Mel Bay book written by Arturo Rodriguez, called Bembe Conversations.
It's extremely well written, very easy to figure out, and includes some really nice songs to sing with lyrics, meanings, and where the syllables fit into the bell pattern. There are four different "conversations" including the main one. It's written in easy to read block notation. He plays it with the high conga on the bomba note, instead of the low one, like how we play it. But the CD which comes with the book demonstrates the sound very well.
There is also a historical intro section where much on the lukumi, people of Africa and Cuba, and their instruments are discussed.
My teacher and I both like it very much! I highly recommend this book!
Here's the cheapest place on the internet I found to get this and many other percussion books.
http://supermall.comp-doc.com/cat310/pe ... ms_63.html
This book is almost at the bottom of the long page.
It's a Mel Bay book written by Arturo Rodriguez, called Bembe Conversations.
It's extremely well written, very easy to figure out, and includes some really nice songs to sing with lyrics, meanings, and where the syllables fit into the bell pattern. There are four different "conversations" including the main one. It's written in easy to read block notation. He plays it with the high conga on the bomba note, instead of the low one, like how we play it. But the CD which comes with the book demonstrates the sound very well.
There is also a historical intro section where much on the lukumi, people of Africa and Cuba, and their instruments are discussed.
My teacher and I both like it very much! I highly recommend this book!
Here's the cheapest place on the internet I found to get this and many other percussion books.
http://supermall.comp-doc.com/cat310/pe ... ms_63.html
This book is almost at the bottom of the long page.