West African Eve Rhythms for Drumset

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Now try a highlife-funk style with the gaNkogui rhythm on ride cymbal bell. Play the kagaN pattern as left hand open high hat stick strokes just before and after closed high hat foot sounds on each beat. Move your left hand from high hat to snare and toms for backbeats connecting bass drum tones. The resultant three-stroke drum pattern (bass-snare/tom-bass) reflects the kidi/sogo voice answering kagaN in the Kadodo ensemble. This groove sounds powerful when string or electric bass fills beats one, three, five, and seven in dialogue with snare, toms, and bass drum. HIGHLIFE FUNK

You can also play the first twelve-beat axatse variation of the earlier Kadodo highlife example 2 as a high hat foot rhythm, answering left hand stick strokes and creating another voice.

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