There is nothing wrong with it!
3 or 4 years old to 60 or 70 years old.
There is no crowd restriction on African drums!
It is also an accidental opportunity for me to play African drums. Some time ago, children performed a program and clamored to buy African drums. I haven't studied them since. Then my old mother began to learn drum sets.
Now I play a song every afternoon after work. Usually, the hands are much more cultivated, and the two children are also scrambling to learn African drums. My eldest son learned a tune like Little Baby.
In fact, I didn't learn African drums for long, and it was easy to get started by self-study 15 days. Now, a song of this level like "The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves" is completely fine.
I chose to learn African drums for three reasons:
1, easy to learn: African drums are easy to learn, and it is very easy to learn music theory and rhythm.
2, the cost is very low: the cost of African drums is not high, unlike guitars and pianos, which cost thousands of dollars. Even with the tutorials I have studied, it is about 500, which is cost-effective.
3, good for the body: playing African drums can exercise, enhance the coordination of hands and brains, and release stress. If you want to learn other musical instruments in the future, you can overdo it.
It is true that anyone can play African drums a few times, but it takes a lot of effort to play well and skillfully. Today, I will tell you how to learn African drums according to my own learning experience!
Learn African drums with good equipment. ※
Systematic course
I teach myself African drums systematically, because I think African drums are very difficult, and I don't need to spend a lot of money to find one-on-one teachers to take them. Self-study is enough!
Although there are many African drums on the Internet now, it is difficult to distinguish their specialties, so it is more reliable to follow the systematic curriculum, because some drum postures and gestures are difficult to change once they form wrong habits, which is time-consuming and laborious.
As for free courses, I also watched a few at first. To sum up, most of them are superficial efforts, just to increase traffic. I don't talk about some basic contents at all, such as knowing scores, changing hands, and practicing these basic but important contents when I find time. You can't learn anything in depth, and you can't teach singing directly when you come up. Although I learned one, I was very confused when I changed the score.
Choose the course of "teaching people to fish" instead of "teaching people to fish". You'd better learn the basics before you start playing African drums. With these contents, even if you change a difficult song, you are not afraid at all.
So I really suggest taking a professional and systematic course to learn African drums from the beginning, which is fast and can also master the beat and rhythm well.
I recommend Dina's African drum course, which is really suitable for the African drum course of 0-based self-study!
The content is really comprehensive, from the knowledge of notes and music scores to the practice of rhythm and the skills of playing songs, and so on. Take learning African drums and watching Tinnai as a systematic course.
It is also very clear in the explanation, and pays great attention to details, such as the correct drum holding action and posture, how to beat the beat and practice the rhythm. 0 basic friends watch it several times, and it is super fast to get started. It is not a problem to play songs like Childhood in two days.
I learned Actor in a week or so, and learned a few popular songs in half a month. Very studious, learning speed is really unique. Ding nai is really a necessary course for beginners!
Auxiliary books
I think it is also excellent to have a tutorial book besides the systematic course of learning African drums. You can read while following the class, which can consolidate the learning content.
The book I read is "Learning to Play African Drum Course"
The content of this book is very comprehensive, and the course content also has supporting chapters, which is more in line with the basic knowledge of African drums. It is really written in the order of drumming, from the basic sound to the rich rhythm, the content is step by step, and every stage is talked about.
Beginners can really get an African drum book!
These are all necessary equipment for me to learn African drums. I sincerely share them with you. Friends who want to learn African drums must watch it!