hello
hello hello hello everyone my name is alex omar piles i'm from
a IROKO theatre company IROKO is a tree a tree is a mythical tree there is a
saying that a rocco tree never dies a rocco tree never dies so what we
want to share with you today african music
we believe just like the rocketry will never never never never never
die so people what is today's challenge the challenge today is for us
to understand and play yes play you know
cross reading to understand how cross rhythm works
in especially west african drumming west african music so for
example i have got this instrument called
i go go ah go go another instrument called ban logo
the pan local drone from ghana ban logo from ghana
so imagine that someone maybe you yes you you playing the one logo
yes and another person is playing this drum
the most common drum you find all over the world
this african drum called gender there are different sizes of jamberry
but this is a big one jambe so someone is playing this
and maybe someone else is playing this double headed double-sided
drum see so imagine someone is playing this drum
so we have how many readings being played
at the same time so because cross rhythm means different rhythms played at the
same time so someone is playing the bell someone
is playing the one logo someone is playing this gen b and so on
is on the jun june the junction is spelled d
j u n dash d j u n so
gen b d j e m now this is a difficult one
can i hear you say well you start spelling it to take a k group
of syllables that is k p e n okay right you may not have the logo the
jamba the iago gold or the junjou at home whatever instrument you can find
please that's what we're going to use to enjoy ourselves
look i've got something here yes rhythm rhythm whatever you can get
look there's another one here yes something here oh
my shakers look at this oh you know this oh i love it pineapple
yes whatever you can get or body rhythm simple clapping you can clap or
body red game at the same time if you are not hitting
yourself you are probably naturally massaging yourself as well as you play
so already so i'm going to introduce the first rhythm
it's going to be one two three yes one two three that's about two one two
three everybody one two three one two three keep playing one two
three if you have a drone it could be everybody did you hear that you see in
west african music there is quite a lot of
call and response so when i play that is the drum speaking to you asking
you get ready get ready to stop so that is a
call asking you to get ready to stop if you are playing
one two stop yeah and then you hear that
i want you to answer me at the end stop stop stop
what do you do you answer me stop stop stop
now this is very good for listening because
you do not know when that call is coming that is why as you are playing and
enjoying you must all be all ears and concentrating so let's try one more
time so as you are playing that let me see if
i can leave one two three one two don't change so keep that that's our first rhythm
okay one two three yes one two
three so let us imagine that the pan logo this one logo
is playing something different see as we are playing one two three and if
my logo is playing one two let's go try it one two three four
five one two yes fantastic one two three one two three four five if you like say
the numbers so that one two three fantastic okay let me bring back
the gem bay the champion so why did alto is playing it's already in
the bell also leading keeping the time supposing
the person playing the gmb is also playing for example you notice i'm doing two things i'm
different i'm playing two different parts
so this is an open sound i'm not playing no
that is mute you are pressing down the skin but
i want the skin to vibrate that is why it's an
open you let it bounce one two three four five six seven
so imagine the drum is playing hey stop stop stop stop stop stop fantastic
stop stop stop so how many rhythms have we got
now three so we'll go three rhythms
what might we add let me see let me this is the
what is this called again ah june june what is the name june june
fantastic now you can play the june june you know you put it on something
on the bench and you can play both sides but here i'm going to play it like this
for convenience give you a very you know simple rhythm which is watch me
one two three four let's go so even if you don't have this you can't
use you know one two three four one so this is the day and enjoy fantastic fantastic so
those are one two three four rhythms
so you imagine the four rhythms they are being played at the same time
the four rhythms are being played at the same time
now the master drummer you know might be adding something
yes on top you know to make the atmosphere even groovier
yes okay so why you say one two three four stop stop stop stop now my friends
my friends so that is more like a display giving you what to play
but imagine that we are performing african music african music west african
music oh can not just be like that
instrumental yes you could but usually usually we
have chant and sing it so when i say
agidi agidi agidi so what i'm saying is let's go let's go let's go and the word
is a gidi is three times yo and then we started our drumming yes but
we might also follow with singing singing so for example
simple chant you know like um let's see let me hear you say that great elephant
is going to be call and response just like the drum was calling
and you answered me stop stop stop so the song also is a call and response
so i sing and you repeat okay now i think here let me give you exactly
your response that a label is my call your response is
yaya this song has a little twist it says let me hear you yaya
one more time yeah yeah i me you got a gist you got a chest
so that was remember one two stop andy and this the junction was playing
one two three four and deleted well well well well i hope you find
this of interest i hope it has inspired you
and please please please feel free you know to share this on your social
media network yeah some of you on social media
remember this is yukon drumming week so the hashtag
yukon drumming week or yukon carnival week
you can draw me a week or you can't carnival week thank you thank you thank
you very much it's now over to you over to you so you
