Rumba Instruments

I've been playing out with my set of Skin on Skin congas pretty frequently lately and I missed the fact that they didn't have...

Well bloggers, let me tell you something very personal. A month or so ago I was seriously considering giving up the tumbadoras. Now why woul...

    Visitors to my blog may have come across an earlier post of mine Guemilere: Study Guide for Afro - Cuban Percussion : (Jimenez / Wardi...

   I just finished another shekere for this agbe set of 3 shekeres. The one I just finished is the caja, or lowest pitched shekere. I used...

         Call them what you will, these guaguas (catas) are recently finished. They are sanded, wrapped and just waiting for the coat of D...

   I know it's a stretch for some of my more distant readers, rumberos in such far away places as Ireland and India. However my little ...

In the study of rumba, the influence of the Abakua on rumba is frequently mentioned. Abakua’s origins are in southeastern...

(photo Thomas Altmann)     The other day  I was practicing Yambu in the park on a beautiful fall day and I was reflecting on the style of...

Rumba is an improvisational music, much like Jazz and Blues. Just like Jazz and Blues, Rumba has it’s own structure regarding how the i...

   Don't worry bloggers I'm not trading in the tumbadoras for the drum kit!  Mainly this is just practice to sharpen my counting an...