Djole: 10-minute practice track
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Here is another practice track of Djole with ballet rather than traditional dunduns. It includes two djembe parts, a sangban bell, and ballet dunduns. Djole is a popular rhythm that originated in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
If you would like for it to be faster or slower, you can change the tempo incrementally by going to settings, playback speed, and custom (up top).
You can learn the parts included here from master drummer Fara Tolno's Rhythm Reference Project (www.rhythmrefer...) and Djembe Guru (www.djembeguru...). If you like what I'm doing, you'll love what he's doing!
That being said, you can use other parts learned elsewhere. There are different ways to arrange Djole.
I did this track and many more in response to the social isolation related to COVID-19. I had no one to drum with, and I figured others were in the same situation.. You’ll find lots of other practice tracks on my UA-cam channel.
Enjoy!
Excelente muchas gracias!!!
Great! Thank you!
Cool stuff. Is it just a one-mic setup? It gets the sound pretty good, what mic is it? And how do you kill the harmonics of the djembes? It took me quite a bit to find the right EQing, compressing and killing frequencies for each drum, and I'm still not fully satisfied with the result..
Keep it on!
Yes, I am only using one mic: a Rode M3 condenser mic. I leave the EQs flat and no compression. Could the issue be with the tuning of your drums? Or maybe the room?
The drum sounds really good in live ensemble, and I recently tuned it, so it's something in the recording process. The room is not good, and has other (possibly) reverberating instruments. But oh well, I'll drop it and turn to the important side of playing :)
Will keep M3 in mind (and NT1 I hear) if future needs arise.
Note to self: the bell sounds very dry. I shouldn't have had my thumb on it.
Hello Bruno! Thanks for the share ! I want to try to use a looper and play different kind of percussions like you. Do you have an advice what looper and mic i need to use for doing what you do right now ? What kind of logiciel do you use ? Thank you for your answer
Hi Zeck,
I can certainly tell you what I did and why, keeping in mind that I used what I already had on hand rather than trying to have the perfect setup. What you end up doing will depending, I suppose, on what you're planning to do and how much you're wanting to spend.
When playing aloud, especially when I'm with others, I can keep it as simple as having an instrument mic, a loop pedal, and a powered speaker. I plug the looper directly in the powered amp and play along. I keep the mic away from the amp to avoid feedback.
If I want better quality sound, especially if I want to record it, I use a condenser mic, but I pass it through a mixing board, and back through earphones, not a speaker, so that it doesn't bleed back into the mix. I also send the signal from the mixing board at input level by using a TRS to TRRS adapter and plug it directly into my phone.
As far as a loop pedal, there are lots to choose from. You can buy an expensive one with lots of features, but I wasn't ready to spend $400 or more and wanted something small and basic with good sound, so I bought the Ditto Mic Looper. You can add as many loops as you want, but you can only remove the last loop at any given time, so I had to plan my loops accordingly. I would say that that's its main limitation, you don't have as much control as with more expensive looping boards, but I would still recommend it for someone who wants to spend less, have something smaller, and is okay with having limitations when it comes to adding and removing tracks.
As far as mics, I used whatever I already had on hand (SM57 instrument mic, SM58 vocal mic, and Rode M3 condenser mic), but I suppose there are lots of decent mics that would do the trick.
Does that answer your questions?
@@brunoallard3975 This is more then i expected ! Thank you so much for your Answer ! It will help me a lot
what program are you using to make your practice track?
I am not using a program. I plugged a mic into a loop pedal. I used the Ditto Mic Looper, because it was basic, inexpensive, and the sound quality was good, but you could use most other loopers. I liked the mic looper because it has XLR (mic) inputs. When I use it for a class or live setting, I use an instrument mic (SM57) and pass it through a powered speaker. When I do a video, I use a condenser mic, pass it through the looper, then a small mixing board, and send it both to my headphones and to the recorder. In this case, I plugged the mixer directly into my phone with a trs to trrs adapter.
@@brunoallard3975 Thank you!