CK LADZEKPO (1) - Drum Rhythm Principles of Percussion Polyrhythm from Ghana, West Africa Englebert Humperdinck 2012-12-05 | Best teacher ever. Continuously teaching African Music, Drum and Dance at U.C. Berkeley since 1973! One of the most knowledgeable researchers ever. Hands down the best translator between traditional West African spiritual concepts of life... and... YOU!!!!!!!
CK LADZEKPO (2) - Drum Rhythm Principles of Percussion Polyrhythm from Ghana, West Africa Englebert Humperdinck 2012-12-05 | Best teacher ever. Continuously teaching African Music, Drum and Dance at U.C. Berkeley since 1973! One of the most knowledgeable researchers ever. Hands down the best translator between traditional West African spiritual concepts of life... and... YOU!!!!!!!
CK LADZEKPO (3) - Drum Rhythm Principles of Percussion Polyrhythm from Ghana, West Africa Englebert Humperdinck 2012-12-05 | Best teacher ever. Continuously teaching African Music, Drum and Dance at U.C. Berkeley since 1973! One of the most knowledgeable researchers ever. Hands down the best translator between traditional West African spiritual concepts of life... and... YOU!!!!!!!
CK LADZEKPO (4) - Drum Rhythm Principles of Percussion Polyrhythm from Ghana, West Africa Englebert Humperdinck 2012-12-05 | Best teacher ever. Continuously teaching African Music, Drum and Dance at U.C. Berkeley since 1973! One of the most knowledgeable researchers ever. Hands down the best translator between traditional West African spiritual concepts of life... and... YOU!!!!!!!
Call & Response DRUMS ATSIA Folkloric Style GODWIN AGBELI Englebert Humperdinck 2012-12-05 | Godwin Agbeli calls using the enormous ATSIMEVU lead drum, and David Locke responds on the much smallert KIDI. If you haven't been around a lot of this music as played by Master musicians **on well-tuned instruments,** you may not be able to distinguish which drum is playing what. But you'll still enjoy it, very much... Victoria Wombie on bell, b/t/w... Amazing performance by David Locke, hardly missing any of the calls. Seeeeerious memorization and practice, wow!!!!
Call & Response DRUMS - ATSIA - Traditional Style - GODWIN AGBELI Englebert Humperdinck 2012-12-05 | Godwin Agbeli calls from the enormous ATSIMEVU lead drum, and David Locke responds on the much smaller KIDI. If you haven't been around a lot of this music as played by Master musicians **on well-tuned instruments,** you may not be able to distinguish which drum is playing what. But you'll still enjoy it, very much...
Call & Response SONG - ATSIA of the Ewe people from Ghana, West Africa Englebert Humperdinck 2012-12-05 | Godwin Agbeli, Master Drummer of the Ewe people of Ghana, demonstrates how the lead drum will will only "talk" but also "SING!!!" The drum calls the song by using drum language, in this case by reproducing the tonal and rhythmic character of the song.
Call & Response - Voice (as Lead Drum) with Kidi (Support Drum) - ATSIA - Ewe people of Ghana Englebert Humperdinck 2012-12-05 | Amazing concentration and performance ability by Godwin Agbeli. He calls various drum language "episodes" by singing the lead drum part. And then he responds to his own calls, by playing the appropriate support pattern on the small "Kidi" drum. Tufts Professor David Locke on bell.
