mark indigo -> RE: Introduction to the cajon (Dec. 16 2015 9:05:39)
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Pretty much every dance student thinks because they have learned compas and some escobilla that banging on a box is easy and fun stuff. 9 out of 10 that think this sit down and start banging away at buleria and they can't even alternate the hands evenly or with any dynamic at all. From there it gets worse. tell me about it, and not just dancers, guitarists too...[&:] that's why I want to help with some instruction stuff. But I know the person this is for well, so I need to find something that will click with her. I mentioned that her footwork was "neat" because she has a really good ear, and if shown something will be able to pick it up, IF she has some kind of technique to execute it with (ie. hands on box). I will check out what she is finding too difficult. It might be as simple as not being used to self-study with a DVD. my guess is that she wants like a class where she spends an hour or two doing stuff interactively at the same level, and on a DVD you just need to use the rewind button to keep going over whatever part you are working on. I am used to learning guitar with dvd lessons etc. so that actually hadn't occurred to me before. (and if I was me wanting to learn the cajon no doubt I would be working through those drum pattern vids). quote:
Rudiments are inherent to all music. That is INFACT what the dancers are learning to do with their feet in dance class, whether they realize it or not. I recommend the same drum book to any guitar student of any style, it helps to know how to execute and work through rhythmic "problems" using whatever technique you need. Scales and theory are a DIFFERENT matter entirely. I understand the rudiments thing, and that that is what dancers are doing with their feet - so in theory she could take the footwork patterns and apply them to the cajon, just like she could take drum patterns and apply them to the cajon, but I don't think that's going to happen, I think she probably needs to watch else someone doing that on the cajon, at least until she has a basic facility on the cajon. I might have got this completely wrong and totally misunderstood, but coming at I from a guitar perspective I'm thinking that a beginner on the guitar with no previous experience needs to be shown what to do with the hands, how to touch/strike the strings, how to execute rasgueados etc. and then can take rudimental rhythm patterns from any source and play them on the guitar. So I'm thinking of a similar first step for cajon btw what is the book you recommend, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work for her, but I might take a look[;)]
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