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Up until now I did not find notations for drumming that were suitable to be transmitted via electronic mail (and that I liked :), which is why I came up with my own personal notation. This is now used for my list of Rhythms For Djembe And Friends. The notation is available as
My personal notation for djembe in ASCII
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(c) Andreas Schamanek * 2010-05-08
Big notation
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B ... bass "bomm" Bb ... "bromm" r/l ... right/left
O ... open "gu" Oo ... "gru" ^/v ... emphasis
X ... slap "ta(k)" Xx ... "tra" 1 ... start here
. ... tap / ... "ging" |x4 ... repeat 4 times
>> Samples <<
Traditional | r___r_l _r_ _l r_ _l_ r_ _ _ |
4/4 Break |: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | :|
| Xx X X X X X X X |
| r_l_r_l r_l_r_l _ _ _ _ _ _ |
Djembe 1 |: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | :|
| X X X O O O O O X X |
^
| /_ _/_ /_ _/_ /_ _/_ /_ _/_ | / ... bell
Dundun |: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | :| X ... muffled
| X O O O O | O ... open
| /_ _/_ /_ _/_ |x2
Kenkeni |: | | | | | | | | :|
| O O O |
Quick notation
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b ... bass "bomm" B ... "bromm" 8 ... 2 bass "bobom"
o ... open "gu" O ... "gru" @ ... 2 open "gugu"
x ... slap "ta(k)" X ... "tra" # ... 2 slaps "tata(k)"
^/v . emphasis / ... "ging" . ... tap 1 ... start
_ ... nothing r ... right l ... left
>> Samples <<
r rl r l r l r
Traditional ____ ____ ____ ____
4/4 Break |: |||| |||| |||| |||| :|
X xx x x x x x
Silamalon ____ ____ ____ ___1 ____ ____ ____ ____
Solo 2 |: |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| :|
with rolls #xx x x xx x @oxx x x x xx oox
Silamalon rlrl 1
Solo 3 |: xx__ ____ ____ ___x @oxx x@o xx x @oxx :|
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Andreas Schamanek
http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/
Rhythms For Djembe And Friends
http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/data/audio/rhythms/
keywords: notation, ascii, plain text, hand drumming, percussion,
djembe, dundun, sangban, kenkeni, duns, doundoun, doundounba, sangpan
A Notation For Djembe And Duns In ASCII
URL: http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/data/audio/rhythms/notation_ascii.php
Last modification: 2010-05-08
Copyright 2010-2013 by Andreas Schamanek
Home page: http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/
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