conga solo video - new clip

[yoni]

Hi all,

CongaMan put up yet another video I did a couple weeks ago - this one on congas.

I will hopefully soon ask for it to be replaced with one I will make with better sound, resolution and playing.
But I hope you enjoy this one in the meantime!

Here are the links:

to my mini web page at congaplace, with videos and sound:

http://congaplace.com/musician/yoni/index.php

straight to conga solo video:

http://congaplace.com/musician/yoni/conga_solo.wmv

All the best,

Yonatan

[JohnnyConga]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YONI!!!......Nice hands Bro...u have a Darbuka-Rumba-Tabla style...I dig it ...very clean too...I always loved the "split hand" style...it is so rare to see today ,, but then again "we ol skool" cats still Got it!.....Hey young ones, chek this video out and learn from it.....as i have....I love to see and hear different ideas and methods....very cool Yoni...Thank you....Yoni and I are Central Park Rumba Alumni....Right Yoni?.....hahahahaha......"JC" Johnny Conga....

[yoni]

Johnny - Thank you so much, man! What a great honor your comments are - and a high point of my career!

Yeah, alumni all right. Hope one day I can see you Rumba again.

All the best,

Yoni



Edited By yoni on 1155199379

[Colacao]

Nice Yoni, lot of sounds and styles in your hands.

I like the split hands too and I like to see percussionist with his own style and influences. Oriental, funk, latin ...I learn from you thanks.

[CongaTick]

WONDERFUL, Yoni!!!. Doubles, I assume? What an inspriation you are for me. More....more..more...

[Diceman]

Yoni,

Great chops, with more than a little Mediterranean herbs in it!!
How do you get those doubles so loud and what is the secret of slapping doubles, I aint got there yet?

Diceman

[Charangaman]

Yoni,

Awesome! Keep them coming, your style is identical to none and inspirational to me...



Edited By Charangaman on 1155212722

[yoni]

Wow - thanks all!

There was singles, doubles, and yeah some Mediterranean spice all thrown in... whatever we do is just done better if we keep at it, right?

So glad you enjoyed!



Edited By yoni on 1155284326

[Amber]

Hi Yoni,

Wonderful ! How is it just possible to move hands so quick and how is it possible to do this without loosing control!? I´m looking at your video amazing what is possible on these instruments!
And I love this oriental style of your music, very individual and unique.

Best regards, cuidate

:p Amber

[gilbert]

hey yoni
nice video
now i'm begining to understand what you're doing on the Daholla video

[yoni]

Gilbert, I am so glad you enjoyed. Thanks so much.

Amber, to you, too. It's all possible if we just keep at it and enjoy. Thanks so much,

Yoni

[windhorse]

Awesome quickness! Nice delicate sensitive touch on the drums, and such command of different sounds, like the sigh, and bending notes.

Thanks for sharing!

Dave

[Berimbau]

Hey Yoni!!!
Really nice conga work, crisp, clear, adventurously innovative. How and where did you develop your "split hand" technique? Not so many people using it these days as J.C. said. Nana Vasconcelos taught me a similar split hand style in the late '70's integrating traditional tabla and darbuka techniques with some African, Cuban, and Brazilian techniques. At first I assumed that he picked these things up during his 1971 - 1976 stay in Europe when he worked in a lot of festival settings, but apparently he had already developed this integrated style in Brasil as evidenced by the 1970 Argentine release "El Incredible Nana." It's an interesting approach and you do it rather well.
J.C. - I do remember a spate of African congueros using split hand in the late '60's - '70's, some of them such as ReeBop Kwaku Bah were quite tasty and effective. I remeber showing this split hand technique to some more traditional-minded congueros in the late '70's and they did not appreciate it too much. "That's for bata," I was told, "you shouldn't play that on the tumbadoras." Looking around at ALL of the various influences (including hip-hop and electronica, then in their infancy) acting upon contemporary congueros some 27 years later, my how things have changed!!


Saludos,



Berimbau

[yoni]

Thank you Berimbau and Windhhorse! Saw "split hand" being played from youth in NYC, maybe even saw Johnny Conga doing it, and seen it on many instruments in many styles (I guess pianists use it often also). Didn't even know it was called "split hand" til I saw it here on the forum! Just to keep trying and pushing any technique has been the way to get it down for me - I've had little instruction... have relied mostly on ears, eyes and just doing and trying stuff new to me... oy, it's just infinite!
I love just easy grooving, too!
All the bestest,

Yoni



Edited By yoni on 1155311208

[onile]

Alafia Abure Yoni!
May your hands always be blessed with quickness and fluidity of motion!

Wow! Your technique is great my brother! I can see that you love to groove, it shows in your playing. I had been trying to see your video but was having difficulty 'till today, it's apparent that you get into the drummin'!

Many blessings!

Onile!