Percussion
Links
Watch Drumming Demonstration of Peyman Nasehpour
Tombak Network: Tombak Network is an educational site for tombak (tonbak, Persian/Iranian
drum) created by my friend, Hormoz Dilmaghani. I have published some articles there. Info of many Iranian/Persian drummers.
RHYTHMWEB: RHYTHMWEB is an excellent site for different drums and has lots of
cool links. Created by Eric Stuer, percussionist, web designer and a dear drum brother of mine. I have
used Eric's website to make a World Drumming Links Page.
Powerhaus & Drumdojo are Paul
Marshall's sites. He is sound artist and percussionist
from N. Ireland and a dear drum brother of mine. He is also the moderator of Drumdojo Group.
Other sites of Paul Marshall:
Different Drums of Ireland
Eric Stuer and Paul Marshall
are moderators of Junk Music Group.
Online Doumbek Guide: Kamuran's Guide for Doumbek Players. On this website of my dear drum
brother, you will find:
* How to make specific
sounds on the doumbek
* Consistent, easy-to-read notation for dozens of rhythms -- the rhythms are grouped by count length,
from 2 to 32
* Difficulty rating for each rhythm
* Articles on accompanying dancers and buying riq
Rick Walker's LooppooL: The exotic sonic world of Rick Walker's Loop.pooL. A leading figure
in the emerging international live looping movement, Rick is a sound designer, electronic music composer, author, percussionist,
trapset drummer, multi-instrumentalist and "found sound" artist. He is a dear drum brother of mine.
Daveed Korup's DrumFest: A percussionist, poet, composer, instrument maker, workshop facilitator,
and above all else, a teacher. Daveed offers an energetic, highly participatory, multicultural program called DrumFest!
which is available to both children and adults. He is the hand drummer of Turku Music (Turku Eurasian Folk Ensemble - Columbia, SC). And a dear
drum brother of mine.
Middle Eastern Rhythms FAQ (rhythms for middle eastern dance for dumbek, dumbec, doumbec, doumbek,
Arabic tabla, darabuka, tombak, zarb ...) created by my dear drum brother, Jas. This is the best list for ME rhythm cycles with Jas's MIDI Rhythm Generator
that I have seen in Internet.
Drum Journal: Drum Journal is a site dedicated to the experience of making your own
music using drums and percussion instruments, drum circles, music education, and the sharing the creation of music across
cultures. This great website has been created by my dear drum brother Dale Wambaugh.
Rhythmuseum: A site dedicated to many drums such as Japanese Taiko, Senegalese Sabar, Korean Chango, Persian tonbak and Indian Tabla
by Christopher Arnold.
PERCUweb: Quebec percussionists' great website by Prof. Robert Leroux and
his friends!
Rene Dalton is a Brazilian percussionist in Brasilia working on Arabic rhythms and plays derbuka. Very well designed website!
Kalani Music: A very nice and informative website for a drummer Mr. Kalani who has worked with many musical legends.
Drums and Drum Sets - Offers drum lessons, tips, and advice for beginners. Discusses the
history of drum sets and manufacturers, such as Pearl, Ludwig, Drum Workshop (DW), and Tama.
Daniel Ruegg: Switzerland based, German language percussion website of Daniel Ruegg. His works moves over drums and rhythms
(instruction, workshop, drum and rhythm circles, organizational developement and so on), drums for sale (Bata, Bougarabou,
Darabukka, Djembe, Surdo, Tabla, Timbales), drumming and introducing some African musicians... Check his informative
website.
David Elia Kuckhermann: Germany based multi-percussionist. His site has some useful info about
basic strokes and lessons of tar, riq, bodhran, darbuka, tonbak.
Eric N. Peterson: Eric's Middle Eastern Drum Page. Info of Middle Eastern Drums and Drummers
and Link to other Websites.
PAS: The Percussive Arts Society® (PAS®) is a music service organization
promoting percussion education, research, performance and appreciation throughout the world.
World Percussion Music and Resources: Australia based percussion website by Kevin Tuck. Music for percussion ensembles, from beginner to advanced pieces
and e-Books for drums and percussion, great for teachers and students.
Jon Mattox: A very active percussionist, artist, web-designer. His site is very
well-desinged and has a very detailed link section!
DrumRhythms: Lessons for Drumset and some small hand percussion instruments such as congas, djembe, bongos, timbales and so on.
Drum Talk of George Grant: Play What You Say!
Ralf Schuh AKA Thorralf,
German Bodhran Player has very good websites for Bodhran (Irish frame drum), Medieval Music and Folk and Musical Project that has the bodhran as centre and all instruments accompany the
drum on the musical journey thru Europe and the World. All websites are in German but English version will come soon.
Tomás Howie Drumming Web: A website for drums and drumming rudiments by Tomás Howie, the moderator of Rudiments Yahoo Groups.
Khalouze (Kalouze): Khalouze is a kind of goblet-shaped drum and has inside two strings
attached just under the skin so the sound is a little buzz. Belly-dance.org has offered a very nice historic photo of a female
khalouze player. Check it out! Also some words about Persian zarb and Arabic derbukka that is interesting.
Hands-On Drumming: A very nice website of Internationally known percussionist, educator and community drumming leader Jim Greiner.
Tim Rayborn: Multi-instrumentalist with specialities in medieval, Middle Eastern,
and Central Asian music.
Kenne Thomas: Great website of Kenne Thomas, professional drummer, percussionist,
author and educator. Info of djembe, taiko and so on.
Alex Pertout: Percussionist, composer and educator in Australia. His website is so
informative and has info of different drums and percussion. Please do visit his website to find out about different world
traditional drums, rhythms and percussion.
Alex Spurkel is an accomplished drummer with over 15 years of experience in both
Western and Non-Western traditions. His forté is world percussion--particularly the Middle-Eastern Doumbek--and his unique
brand of electronic drumming suited for various genres of dance music.
Fredrik Gille is a Swedish percussionist that collects instruments, playing-techniques
and inspiration from percussion-traditions all around the world. He plays Indian tabla too.
Mauro Gatto: Drums and Percussion Website of Italian percussionist Mauro Gatto both
in Italian and English language.
Harmonic Motion is a not-for-profit arts organization resident in South Florida. Harmonic
Motion's music and dance performing groups focus on folkloric and ethnic idioms, cross cultural, and improvisational projects.
The core performers and teachers are musician/composer Joe Zeytoonian and dancer/percussionist Myriam Eli.
Erik Smith: Norway based drumset site of Erik Smith, a very active drumset player.
In his nice website, you can learn about him and his musical activities, hear soundclips, get news about gigs, clinics and
more. His site has a good link section too. He is a Yamaha Drum Artist.
City Percussion: Originally based on the complicity of two percussionists, Thierry Hochstätter
and jB Meier, this concept aiming at being the universe of percussion instruments and new instrument concepts from all over
the world, is growing into an artistic environment of a wide variety. The Compagnie of all the tools of the Arts. This great
website is in English, French and Spanish language.
Tony Natale: American wonderful percussionist. He is now located in Bach's city in Germany and recording his own CDs. He owns a
very nice website both in English and German.
El Toque De Candombe: Traditional Afro-uruguayan rhythm - for Afro-Uruayan Chico, Repique
and Piano drums, Drumset and Bass - Culture and more.
A Gaita Do Fol: A site by Juanjo Fernandez dedicated to Galician music.
ALGORHYTHM: South African Percussion Portal, info about djembe, conga, tabla, zarb
(tonbak), tama, sabar and so on...
Patrick Graham: Canadian percussionist and explorer of new percussion techniques.
He has worked on Western classical music, frame drums, Japanese, South-Indian and Mediterranean and Irish rhythms.
River Paul Guerguerian: US-based Multi-percussionist, composer and educator. He is frame drummer
of Omar Faruk Tekbilek's Ensemble. His website has been designed very well.
The Ocean of Rhythm: Website of Christoph Haas, German percussionist, vocalist and composer.
He has studied on many rhythmic styles such as Rock, Jazz, Mediterranian countries, West Africa, South America and Southern
India.
EthnoSuperLounge is a network of musicians from many cultural backgrounds who come together to share their songs and sounds in the spirit
of unity, healing and transcendence. It's a mellow world music fusion group including musicians from India, Tibet, Turkey,
Japan and Africa, along with many Australians strongly influenced by various ethnic music traditions as well as jazz, ambient
and electronica.
Rootsy Records is a djembe record label and resource site based in San Francisco, CA, Vienna, Austria and Bamako Mali.
Herwig Stieger: A very nice and great drummer from Austria, specialist of Afro-Cuban, African and Middle Eastern drumming
(drumset, congas, bongos, darbouka). Please check out his new books in both German and English language.
