Another recordingI made playing three drum adaptations. This one is bakoso, even though a lot of players around here refer to it as bembe, I've been told by my instructor that it's actually bakoso. It's the first rhythm I learnt to play on 3 drums. Again, the Alesis Sr-16 plays bell. Recorded by Zoom H2.
Bakoso
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Hi, thanks for the rhythm. Would you or your instructor would know something about the bakoso DRUM? It's mentioned in the El Lenguaje del Tambor DVD, Daniel Alfonso sais "the first drum I learned to play was the bakoso, a fat little pegged drum", but I wasn't able to find any info about it...
ReplyDeleteI don't really know much about the bakoso drum. I assume it is probably very similar to the bembe drums.
ReplyDeleteI heard somewhere that bakoso refers to playing bembe with hands...a kind of adaptation to playing bembe on tumbadoras. And that bembe agwe refers to how the tumbadora is played with a set of guiro. Have you ever heard anything like this or does this ring true to your experience?
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, bakoso is a different rhythm than bembe, though bakoso is colloquially called bembe. As for bembe meta and bembe agwe, they are different rhythms as well, one is male (meta) and the other is female (agwe).
ReplyDeleteThe rhythm called guiro typically has 3 shekeres and one tumbadora, the way I've been taught. The bembe and bakoso rhythms used 3 drums.
In my experience, the terms bembe, guiro and sometimes toque are used loosely and interchangeably, and it's good not to get too hung up on them.
Thank you for the clarification.
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