bongos

: one of a pair of small connected drums of different sizes and pitches played with the hands.

Today, bongo drums are being played in Cuban music, Afro-Cuban jazz, Latin music, but also in a many other styles such as soul and funk music, and so it's good to initiate drum lessons for kids and enrich their musical talents.

Ethnomusicologists have theorized that the origin of the word “bongo” comes from the Bantu words ngoma or mgombo, meaning drum. The bongo's earliest musical roots are found in the Eastern provinces of Cuba in the Changüi and Son, two musical genres that feature the bongo as the sole percussive drum.

The bongo's primary musical role is to produce a complicated rhythmic accompaniment that gives the music remarkable stability. This has enabled the creation of patterns, or rhythmic systems that are unique to this instrument.

Congas & Bongos - Bongos and congas are normally notated on a two lined staff, with one line representing each of the drums. An additional line may be added for a third drum. The top line represents the highest-pitched drum. A cross- shaped notehead is used for muted drums.

So now you've got three sounds for the bongos. You've got your open edge. Sound. The high-pitched open sound you got your low drum sound your tone. And now you've got a muted edge tone. Over here.

bongo drums, also called bongos, pair of small single-headed Afro-Cuban drums. The two heads, which are respectively about 5 inches (13 cm) and about 7 inches (18 cm) across, are nailed or rod-tensioned to wooden, open-ended “shells” of the same height.

PITCH AND REGISTER OF THE BONGO Generally speaking, the Hembra can be tuned somewhere between the C below Middle C and the F below middle C. While the macho is often tuned between the D above middle C and the C above middle C.

History. Bongo Flava is a large divergent evolution of muziki wa kizazi kipya, meaning "music of the new generations", which originated in the middleclass youth of Kinondoni District of Dar es Salaam between the mid-1980s and 1990s.

More it's important like i said before that on the macho. That you on that second tone that you lift your hand off the drum. So that it's an open tone so to be closed. Open closed open on the embra.

Bongo flava started as a Tanzanian take on American hip-hop and R&B; one of the earliest hits in the genre came in 1991 from Saleh Jaber (a.k.a. Saleh J), who rapped in Swahili over the instrumental track from Vanilla Ice's hit “Ice Ice Baby” (which borrowed its instrumental from Queen's hit “Under Pressure,” meaning ...

The different sounds you can make include playing a closed tone where you have your thumb across the drum across the macho. And you strike the drum with the pad of your finger. And an open tone where