Remembering How to Drum: Djembe Technique

Director: Jeremy Williams
Studio: Blue 7 Media
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
This DVD provides a study of traditional Djembe technique, enabling you to play with confidence and clarity. It includes the following exercises:

Description

This DVD provides a study of traditional Djembe technique, enabling you to play with confidence and clarity. It includes the following exercises:

Customer Reviews:

not very useful.......2006-12-19

I felt the author was showing off his skills but not teaching much. Other than the very basics, you will not learn much about rythms and technique from this DVD.

NOT the DVD you are looking for to learn new rytms!.......2006-02-26

I recently bought this DVD together with "Master Drummer Series: Thione Diop Teaches Djembe and Dunun Rhythms of Senegal", as they both had great reviews. I'm a beginner and I was looking for a DVD that would teach me some different rythms, preferrably in an easy "play along" way.

If that is what you too are looking for then I would really recommend you to skip this DVD and go with Thione Diop's DVD!! The "Remembering How to Drum: Djembe Technique" was a big dissapointment and I can't understand how it has gotten such good reviews (even if there is just eight reviews) - are you friends of the producer??

Very Cool.......2005-07-28

I really enjoyed this DVD. The instructor is very charismatic, unlike most instructional videos. He really knows his stuff. The only reason I wouldn't give it 5 stars is because I don't believe that any DVD or video can really train a person to play an instrument. It comes from personal experience, not formula.

Exactly what I was looking for.......2005-05-27

Very clear. Thorough. "Remembering How to Drum: Djembe Technique" is really well put together. I was looking for a DVD that would lead me through the basics. This one did that, along with reminding me that the urge to drum is innate (hence, the title.) I knew a bit about yoga, proper breathing and arm and finger exercises -- but this DVD showed how they all fit.
Good visuals.
I highly recommend it.

Chicago IL

Could not make it play on an Apple iBook.......2005-05-18

I ordered a copy of this DVD and it would not play on my Apple iBook. Every other DVD I have ever put in the iBook has played. I even tried other DVDs in the iBook after this one would not play. They worked. I returned the DVD to Amazon and had them send me another one. The second one also would not play on the iBook. This time I tried putting it in the DVD player on top of our television set. It played. So, fellow iBook djembe players... be advised this DVD may not play on your iBook. (Apple 800 MHz Power PC G3, MacOS X 10.2.8) Otherwise, great DVD.

After I posted this review at Amazon I got an email from the production company that produced the DVD. They confirmed that they knew it was not compatible with the Mac OSX operating system. Apparently the DVD, which is truly excellent, has gone into a second production run. DVDs from the second production run are OSX compatible. The production company sent me one from the second production run and it works fine on OS X. Blue 7 Media wrote me an email and said that as of June 2005 all the DVDs available through Amazon are from the second run. (Thank you!)

The more I play the more I appreciate the yoga exercises to loosen up and care for my hands!

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