How to Play Your First Cajon Solo: A Lesson for Beginners

This is Lesson 1 from the video "Learn to Solo on Cajon: A Step-By-Step Guide for Beginners" by Alan Dworsky. It's available at www.dancinghand....
The 50-minute video teaches over 70 licks. You'll learn the power of pairs, split-hands voicing, the offbeat path, how to create the illusion of speed with a rippled six, techniques for creating longer phrases, and more. It comes with an 18-page PDF file that includes charts of all the patterns. And the music never stops, so you can always play along.
You can think of the licks and patterns in this video as being like words and phrases in your rhythmic vocabulary. The goal is for you to learn to put them together in your own way, so that when you solo on cajon--whether it's in a band or a jam or just playing along with your favorite music--you can say what you want to say.