Alex Glendinning's Music
- and Percussion Links Page
- *Animated gif courtesy of gifanimados.ya.com
- It was surprising to discover so many percussion sites
on the WWW, many containing useful information and sound files, enabling
me to start learning how to play the more exotic instuments in the collection
and, in case of Ghana Goods,
buy them. I also use the Internet to keep track of some of my musical heroes.
Here are a few of my favorite sites ...
- e-mail: glen@itl.net | Community Drum Jams in Jersey
| The Jersey Drum Circle | Drum
Links | The Acoustic Music
Club gigs schedule | Alex Glendinning's Music
and Percussion Page | Alex Glendinning's Home
Page Index
- Want to learn real Samba and make a worthwhile
contribution to a Brazilian Street Children's Charity? Try the 2004 Samba
Challenge Brazil
- The Eleggua Project: Lessons in Cuban Drumming - in Cuba! I went on their March 2001 trip - details here.
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- Drum Makers
- African:
Ivory Coast
Drums | Baraka
Djembes | African STYLE: Tribull
Drums, New Zealand
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- Indian: Royal Music
Company | Sharma Musical
| Tabla.com
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- Latin: Sol Drums: Congas
| Tatu Drums: Surdos
| LP Music: Latin Percussion
| Fat Congas | Mambiza Drums | Spicy
Instruments | Nova
Percusio | Tam
Tam Percussion
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- Cahon: Pedro Barriera's Wooden
Bongo | Kotz Tone
| Schlagwerk Percussion
| PoPercussion
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- Clay Drums: Indian
& Greek Clay Drums by Anastasia Mamali | Burnt
Earth: Udu Drums and other Clay Instruments
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- Bohràns: Renegade
Rhythms | The World of Bohràns
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- Technical Innovators: PanArt's hand played steel drum: The Hang | David
Roman Drums - Pneumatic Pitch Control! | The
Laptop Snare by RhythmTec
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- Percussion: Sundesigns
Chekere: Gourd Shakers
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- Tuned Percussion Makers
- Amadinda African Xylophones
| Elemental Design Tuned
Percussion
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- Distributors
- Brazilian
Percussion | African
Rhythm Traders | Ghana
Goods: UK Importer of African Drums | One
Voice Music | Soar
Valley Music: UK Distributor of Ethnic Drums and Folk Instruments |
Footes Drum Store London | Knock on Wood UK
| Hobgoblin World Music Instruments
UK | Motherland Music
RhythmArt | Africa
Alive | Tribal
Musical Instruments
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- How to Play Them
- 1. UK
- Simon McCarty's Talking
Drums | Beat
Works | Daniella
McDermott | Djembe School
| Drum Cafe London and South
Africa | Rhythm Bridge
| Field of Rhythm
| One Voice Music: Afro-Cuban
and Afro-Brazilian Courses | Drum
Teachers in the UK | Ben Lawrence
| Peter Batty's Skin to Skin
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- Drum Study 2004 UK: Drum
Camp | The Tribe of Doris
Intercultural Summer School
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- 2. International
- African - Djembe: Paul
Nas' West-African Percussion Pages | Travel
to Abene and learn African drumming in Casamance, South of Senegal
| Eric
Charry's Guide to the Jembe | Tuning
the Djembe: Pulling Diamonds Flip Book | Sabar: Sabar
Technique | The
Sabar | Senegalise
Sabar Drumming | Ewe: Kevin
O'Sullivan's Dance Drummer Site
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- Latin/Cuban: Afro
Cuban Chops | Tambo Cuba Study
Afro Cuban Drumming in Mantanzas | Chuck
Silverman: Drum Teacher in the USA
- Samba: Little
Bateria Page
- Middle East: A
Quick and Dirty Guide to the Doumbeck
- India: World of
Tabla | Chakardar Tabla
Site
- Anything and Everything: Arthur Hull's Village
Music Circles | National
Association of Percussion Teachers
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- Books CDs and Instruction Videos
- Bridges To Productions
..video samples of Brazilian Percussion by Jorge Cortesao | Dancing Hands | White Cliffs Media: African and World Music
Books and CDs
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- How to Protect Them
- Protection
Racket: Best Drum Bags
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- Resources: UK
- Rhythmworks: Reading
| Beatroots: Swindon and
Reading | Drum Fun
| DrumCrazy | DrumJam | Drum
Call UK | Tribal
Earth: UK Drum Circles
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- General
- Noise We Make
|The Rhythm Centre Auckland
, New Zealand | Ray
Pereira | Encyclopedia
of Percussion | Bob Anzlovar's
Drum Circle Site | CongaPlace
| World Rhythm Training
| Southern Native
American Pow Wows | DrumBum
| Drums on the Web | Rhythmweb | International
Music Archives | About
World Music | Percussive Arts Society
| RootsWorld.com | World At Your Beat | World Music Network
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- Africa
- F-ire Music & Percussion
Collective | Afrodisiac
| The Nigerian Talking Drum Ensemble
| Mandinka
Balafon Music | Interactive Links
guide to online Djembe Resources | African
Drumbeat | AfroPop | Djembe L FAQ | African Music and
Drumming Resources on the Web | C.
K. Ladzekpo - African Music and Dance | Cora
Connection - The Manding Music Traditions of West Africa (includes balafon)
| Wolof
Music of Senegal | Dandemutande:
Zimbabwean Music | The African Music
Enyclodepia | African
Music Webring
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- Brazil and South America
- Want to learn real Samba and make a worthwhile contribution to a Brazilian
Street Children's Charity? Try the 2004 Samba
Challenge Brazil | Hands
On Brazil | The
Music of Puerto Rico | Candombe!
Afro-Uruguayan Rhythms
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- Capoeira
- Capoeirista | Jogo
da Vida | Planet
Capoeira | Berimbau
Lessons with Frank Colon
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- Samba
- Paraiso School of Samba
| UK Samba Association | Penzamba (formerly Apito Samba)
Peter Fox's outfit from Penzance, Cornwall | The
Suffolk School of Samba | A
Banda: Samba in Copenhagen | The
London School of Samba | Samba
in Britain and Ireland | World
Wide Samba HomePage
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- Cuba
- Cuba Salsaholic
by Klaus Reiter | Rumba
Complex | Guillermo Davis
- El Iyawo Cuban Dance | Egbe
Oduniyi | Regla
de Ocha (The Rule of the Orisha) | The
World Dances To a Cuban Beat by Howard LaFranchi | Descarga | Mamborama
| Folk Cuba | The new Cuban
music: Listen to Timba | Afro-Cuba Web | The
Eleggua Project
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- Batá
- Magazine
article on Batá Drums | BBC
Radio 3 Batá Pages | Bata
Drums
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- Puerto Rico
- Rhythms of Puerto
Rico: Plena
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- Bohdran
- Bodhranii | Renegade
Rhythms: Meet performer, maker and teacher Mog
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- Flamenco
- Flamenco Compas Analysis: Rhythmic
Foundation | Palmas
Compas (Handclaps)
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- Other
- Native American Drums
| Gamelin Music
from Bali and Beyond | Ancient
Future | Introduction To Finger
Cymbals | Mallet
Percussion Stuff | The VibeNet
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- Percussionists' Pages
- Jefe de Timbales
| Maria
del Carmen Dongo | Kumpa-nia
French Canadian band playing "Percussion Ambulente" i.e. Samba
& more - excellent videos | Poncho
Sanchez | Gordon
Odametey & Ogidi Gidi | Ted's
Djembe Page | James
Asher | Buddy Helm: Drummer
and Writer | The
Sunshine Drumming Company | Ensemble
Bash | Evelyn Glennie's
Home Page | Brekete
| Pete Lockett:
UK Multi-Percussionist | Conga
Head: Martin Cohen's Site (LP Founder) | Street
Heat | Mickey Hart's Drum Pages
| Flora Purim
& Airto Moreira Homepage | The
Hands On'Semble contemporary percussion quartet | Peter
Fagiola's Frame Drumming | Trilok
Gurtu (Agency Site) | All three of these guys play with Baka Beyond and teach: Ayodele Scott | Seckou
Keita | Nii Tagoe and Frititi
(also African Dance)
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- Electronic Percussion
- VKO: Home of the MundoBeat
Metronome | Percussion
Studio | Drum Machine Museum
| Groove Lab
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- Didgeridoo
- The Yidaki | Didjeridu
Tutorial
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- Mailing List
- Talking Drum
(UK)
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- Miscellaneous
- Terry Riley Vessel
Flutes | Drummer
Jokes | Global
Village Idiot Reviews World Music CDs | Q
Magazine - the best music reviews in the UK | World
Music for the Ocarina | Songlines
Aboriginal Art | Ravi: a British
Kora Player
- e-mail: glen@itl.net | Community Drum Jams
in Jersey | The Jersey Drum Circle
| Drum Links | The Acoustic
Music Club gigs schedule | Alex Glendinning's
Music and Percussion Page | Alex Glendinning's
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