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Laura Cousins
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Here's an extract from my usual Blog
I run a regular once-a-week session for mothers with children at a nursery school in Bournemouth. It's been quite hard going to get them going, if you see what I mean - lots of false starts and never more than 5 participants. Challenging!
"Had more participants this week, including the mother and daughter pairing. The mum is in her 50s and her daughter is in her late 20s, I guess.
I followed a similar format to last week, starting off by asking about the difference between… Continue
"Had more participants this week, including the mother and daughter pairing. The mum is in her 50s and her daughter is in her late 20s, I guess.
I followed a similar format to last week, starting off by asking about the difference between… Continue
Posted on June 26, 2007 at 1:41pm — 1 Comment
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Blandford Forum is not too far for a drum circle, also, I know a couple of women there who may be interested. Let me know if you go ahead,
Sharon x
Hello Laura,
I've just checked out your website, its really inspiring. Congrats on getting your Diploma too!
I will be starting on that same journey in February 2008 and very much looking forward to it.
Sharon, south somerset, Uk
nice to meet you. thanks for sharing all that cool stuff on your blog. i'll go look deeper now at your web site etc. hope you'll be friends - i think we should all be friends! peace, Lori in michigan, USA
I can't wait to look around and discover more about you and what your up to, as well!
Hope you had a nice holiday weekend.
Warmly,
Shari Krishnan
I'm a little lost where that discussion is, about being excited as all get-out. I actually find this website rather klunky. If it were not for the nice UK DCF's I'd never participate...
Anyway, about the frame drums... I don't know about Christine's systems, but there is a rather universally accepted set of strokes and names for them. I say "universally" meaning in the English speaking subset, as every local region has its own set of names. Sometimes people feel the need to re-name things, sometimes they just don't know.
Yes there is the "doum" (playable in different ways, but basically something bouncing off the mid-zone; the "cha" or "slap" which is the fingers pressed after the strike; the "tak" and the "kah" which are the left and right hand fingers at the rim, respectively, and should sound the same; and the "chert" or "snap", which is just that. Some people consider the brush-effect to be a variation on the "cha" stroke. Then there is the rub-effect; zil (jingles) techniques; the Italian bounces and Triplicata; and whole other world of techniques for the Persian Daf, which involves complicated throws and on and on.
ANYway... I think the real key for getting ANYWHERE with a frame drum (the thin-skinned kind, not the thick-skinned type one hits with a mallet) is really all about holding the drum properly. If you have that much, you can get somewhere. There are different ways, of course, but a correct way for each style...
If you do not have the right sense of how to hold the drum, one will never progress, because you can't make the notes happen.
That is such an important part to learn. Now don't feel bad, Astrid has a women's drumming group just with Tar drums, and after six months they still have hardly a clue....It would help if they actually practiced though....
I'm thinking one of these days I might try to organize a Frame Drum Workshop for DCF's. Somewhere in Italy, of course.
Wanna come?
Yes, I will gladly join your network!
However, something must be done about this blue-and-brown motif...