Bongos Lesson 1: The Basics (Tuning/Tones/Rhythm)

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  • Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
  • In bongos lesson 1 you will learn about the construction of the bongos, tuning, tones, and a basic rhythm.
    The bongos are typically found in Latin American music and cuban music. They can be used for so much more than those genres though.
    Please subscribe to my channel for more lessons and videos :)
    My website: playcajon.org
    LP Uptown Ash Bongos: www.lpmusic.co...

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  • @submariner6789
    @submariner6789 6 днів тому

    Just ordered a set of bongos after playing drums for 40 plus years, can’t wait! Love the finish on those.
    Cheers 👍

  • @robertryder1097
    @robertryder1097 4 роки тому +6

    Just what I needed - perfect timing!

  • @nadiamillia6608
    @nadiamillia6608 5 місяців тому +1

    Grazie per aver iniziato le tue spiegazioni mostrando la regolazione del tono del bongo. Like e iscrizione meritati. 👍

  • @munk455
    @munk455 2 роки тому +3

    You said the important fact at the beginning of the video. I kindly thank you for that.

  • @jennytstudentdrummer8857
    @jennytstudentdrummer8857 2 роки тому +5

    I enjoyed that, thank you! My first Pulse bongos just arrived so I’ve now ordered the spanner to tune them up 😀

    • @playcajon
      @playcajon  Рік тому +1

      Aw nice one! Glad you enjoyed. Yes, get them cranked up!! 👌

  • @namratapandey5003
    @namratapandey5003 2 роки тому +5

    This video very useful for me thanks brother ❤️
    Iam from india ❤️

  • @evangelcassidy3988
    @evangelcassidy3988 Рік тому +2

    Thank you very much for your interesting pattern bongo lesson! Always did like percussion!!

  • @DieterLo1
    @DieterLo1 11 місяців тому +1

    It was very helpful. Thanks! Today I ordered such a bongo in Germany.

  • @socialmeaslesinpartnership1252
    @socialmeaslesinpartnership1252 3 місяці тому +1

    Thank you, thumbs up. Got mine today, spanner supplied is going to be painful so...that's the first thing. Get a decent spanner.

  • @onefm1
    @onefm1 2 роки тому +1

    Mine just came in, and they're lovely!

  • @percussionislife2341
    @percussionislife2341 2 роки тому +2

    I don't have conga drums, so what I do in the band I tune bongos in such a way that I mimic conga sounds from bongos. Works perfectly.

  • @marlenewhite2054
    @marlenewhite2054 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent and through teaching skills. Great job!! Thank you!!

    • @playcajon
      @playcajon  2 роки тому

      Thanks Marlene! I'm happy that you are enjoying the videos. Welcome to the channel! :)

  • @rondoweiss
    @rondoweiss 2 роки тому +1

    great technique and super sounding bongos.

  • @iphonepilot
    @iphonepilot 2 роки тому +13

    Hey Paul. Can you explain the obsession with the Martillo? Almost every bongo video is just people playing a martillo. Drum videos aren’t just people playing a rock beat. Don’t understand. I get it has its place in a samba rhythm section, but that’s it it seems. Surely an instrument is there to be used as you like, taken to new ground, played in new ways. There are a thousands of genres and rhythms beyond martillo/samba… a million rhythms that can work musically within and around any accompaniment. Jimmy Hendrix played his guitar upside down (and no he didn’t learn to play it the right way round first!).

    • @alejandrogutierrez165
      @alejandrogutierrez165 Рік тому +3

      its lesson 1 for a reason

    • @ernestbongocero4lifehooks90
      @ernestbongocero4lifehooks90 Рік тому +1

      I see the date on this. However my advice is for you to research more vids. There are a good number of vids here on the tube of a large number of different playing styles.
      Check out Bongorilla. He's here on youtube under that name. I started watching his vids and was playing my 1st set of drums and raising my neighbors eyebrows and gained smiles. One told me he had been listening to my progression over the course of about a month of hearing me play telling me that I had improved alot.
      But check him out. He plays to a wide variety of music and mixes his martillo with his own unique variations and cadence that aren't the martillo.

    • @AnaIrimiabooks
      @AnaIrimiabooks Рік тому +1

      Some instruments were made FOR A CERTAIN TYPE OF MUSIC. The fact that we discover that it can fit in other styles, it's another thing. Just because you can use them anywhere else, doesn't take away the place they were actually fucking used and came from in the first place. Answered your curiosity and your comparison?

    • @iphonepilot
      @iphonepilot Рік тому +1

      @@AnaIrimiabooks not really 😆 Even more questions now. Not only am I still confused why the bongos are played almost only martillo, I am now also wondering why some people have such high stress levels…

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape Рік тому

      @@iphonepilot true, I’ve seen bonguses used to during acoustic rock sets and it was amazing. I would rather play like that, just wanna jam along in a basic way with my favorite songs.

  • @joychristie
    @joychristie Рік тому +1

    Very useful teaching. Thank you so much sir

  • @congerscott6064
    @congerscott6064 Рік тому +1

    I love it !!! Just got a set and can't wait to start playing 👍🏆.

  • @lishavi6607
    @lishavi6607 4 роки тому +4

    Congratulations and thanks for your great first lesson about bongos Happy to find it out. I hope you will keep up the good work.
    I just purchased an LP Aspire 601 (6.75" x 8") and I was surprised and disappointed to hear that it had been tuned upside down, i.e. high notes on the Hembra and low notes on the Macho. As a beginner I struggled to retune it correctly. I downloaded iDrumTune Pro to help me and read a lot of documentation, but I'm not sure about the result. It says (sometimes) : Macho: 85 Hz / D2 and Hembra 62 Hz / E2, it doesn't sound bad but it's variable and I think it's not the right octaves. I read that it should be between the 6th and the 4th. I don't dare to push the Macho who is already cracking. I hope you'll make a video on this subject. There's a lack on the Net.

  • @yashuarazohr486
    @yashuarazohr486 4 роки тому +2

    Great basics. Keep up the good work

    • @playcajon
      @playcajon  4 роки тому +1

      Thank you so much! Take care. :)

  • @HelloWorld-nv5bq
    @HelloWorld-nv5bq 4 роки тому +2

    Found that your video of teaching cajon is so good. Could you also make a serial of bongo tutorial?

  • @greenharvestproductions6743
    @greenharvestproductions6743 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for the video on great instruction for beginners been playing bongo and conga I'm from Puerto Rico I've been playing that in precaution for more than 45 years like many instruments including the cowbell güiro sin sarro and many other instruments in Latin precaution music keep up the good working from el salsero de Puerto Rico keep the beat Yours Truly Joseph

  • @jademonkeylover
    @jademonkeylover Рік тому +1

    Thanks a lot for the video, it was very helpful!

  • @marktaylor4677
    @marktaylor4677 2 роки тому +1

    Really enjoyedReally enjoyed that Paul. I have Valencia bongos here.

  • @DeboraDiasReceitas
    @DeboraDiasReceitas 3 роки тому +2

    perfect

  • @tarunhasija9151
    @tarunhasija9151 3 роки тому +2

    Kindly Make more video for bongos lessons 🙏🙏

  • @stuarttaylor4990
    @stuarttaylor4990 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for the lesson.

  • @nowthatsfunky7676
    @nowthatsfunky7676 Рік тому +1

    Beauty of congos is that in those first 4 hits you already feel like you part of a band 💃🏽

  • @Nick-ui9dr
    @Nick-ui9dr 3 роки тому

    Thanks for the correct placement of bongo drums for me... I am a lefty but I think still high drum on left side suits me best... just got bongo drums today and was struggling for last hour. U solved it for me. Though I still play beats with my left hand on high drum and tap with my right hand but still putting high drum on left side makes it so easier for me. :)

  • @user-op9fk3xf3t
    @user-op9fk3xf3t Рік тому +1

    Thank you great advice

  • @BushcraftingBogan
    @BushcraftingBogan 5 місяців тому +1

    14:00 bookmark

  • @reganalbayaty7455
    @reganalbayaty7455 7 місяців тому

    Great help right off tha bat. Thank you!!!

  • @edwarddelacruz9474
    @edwarddelacruz9474 3 роки тому +1

    Awesome!! Good lesson, thanks

  • @frenchjohnfrench370
    @frenchjohnfrench370 9 місяців тому

    Hi Paul do you have other bongo's lesson or a class...I've your cajon lessons and I would love to learn also to play bongos

  • @ScoobertDoobertBurrito
    @ScoobertDoobertBurrito 3 роки тому +1

    Super helpful, thank you!!

  • @VolkanBaydarOfficial
    @VolkanBaydarOfficial Місяць тому

    Thank you !!!

  • @Nurse_Nuggets
    @Nurse_Nuggets 9 місяців тому

    When you say “we want try to keep them even” while adjusting the lug nuts, do you mean “even” as far as the tension or torque needed to turn the lug nuts, or do you mean even by the number of rotations each lug nut makes around the lug bolts?
    I have a cheap set, and in order to get equal torque needed to turn the lug nuts, they are most definitely not equal when it comes to number of rotations on the bolt itself. And vice versa.

  • @jovonford3665
    @jovonford3665 2 роки тому +1

    Very good vid. Where's lesson 2?

  • @strappaplank6017
    @strappaplank6017 2 роки тому +1

    really enjoyed listening to and watching you, great info with a subtle humour....

  • @magpercussion3005
    @magpercussion3005 3 роки тому +1

    Great sound

  • @nedgey
    @nedgey 4 роки тому +1

    Perfect lesson. Why wouldn't you use a tuner to get the exact notes and intervals? Curious most tuning videos don't use tuners...

  • @drumken
    @drumken 4 місяці тому

    Enjoyable video for a self thought player like me.

  • @denverado5594
    @denverado5594 Рік тому +1

    I’d like to buy a set of those bongos. What model of LPs are those? Thank you

  • @bongopirate0672
    @bongopirate0672 3 місяці тому

    If it sounds good then it's right.

  • @Belgarath314
    @Belgarath314 Місяць тому

    Don't you have to tune them down after playing ?

  • @rameshjayasundara7559
    @rameshjayasundara7559 Рік тому

    Thank you very much

  • @chungsingman
    @chungsingman Рік тому +1

    another lesson pau; please!!!!

  • @xX-Sneezyanus69XD420MLG-Xx
    @xX-Sneezyanus69XD420MLG-Xx 4 роки тому +1

    When are we getting a new season of round the twist?

  • @danteserrano7460
    @danteserrano7460 3 роки тому

    Thank you sir

  • @spunkito3
    @spunkito3 4 місяці тому

    Cupping for slaps on the Macho!

  • @Marcelo-xy8oh
    @Marcelo-xy8oh 7 місяців тому

    Excelente

  • @agussuwito
    @agussuwito 3 роки тому

    Bigthumb
    I ie you shearing
    Very good

  • @adrianvanaalst
    @adrianvanaalst 3 роки тому +1

    Is there a lesson 2?

  • @xX-Sneezyanus69XD420MLG-Xx
    @xX-Sneezyanus69XD420MLG-Xx 4 роки тому

    Have you ever?
    Ever felt like this?

  • @tarjakarjalainen1307
    @tarjakarjalainen1307 Рік тому +1

    👍

  • @DjShaggySrilanka
    @DjShaggySrilanka Рік тому +1

    💛🎶🙌🏻🙏

  • @vgamer7159
    @vgamer7159 4 роки тому

    Pls make the video of cajon

  • @tommyk88888
    @tommyk88888 Рік тому

    Wouldnt wanna walk down south central with one of those babies

  • @mauriceortiz1557
    @mauriceortiz1557 Рік тому

    Paul "Cuban Pete" Jennings ^_^

  • @matthewxavierthera
    @matthewxavierthera 3 роки тому

    Make Cajon Tutpriali begbu

  • @King-yt9vm
    @King-yt9vm 3 роки тому

    Anyone remember 8 years ago cajon tutoriald

  • @SandwichConsumer
    @SandwichConsumer Рік тому

    1:13 someone just peeked over there lol

    • @playcajon
      @playcajon  Рік тому

      Woah!!! That's just absolutely freaked me out. Thankfully I don't live in that apartment anymore 😱

    • @playcajon
      @playcajon  Рік тому

      Aaaah wait. Its the back of my head but that had me for a minute there 😅💀

  • @navniitpanwanr1732
    @navniitpanwanr1732 Рік тому

    I am just buy Amazon to lurn this

  • @spunkito3
    @spunkito3 4 місяці тому

    Macho = D# Hembra = G

  • @RabidBatMusic
    @RabidBatMusic Рік тому

    A good skelp 🤣🤣🤣

  • @spunkito3
    @spunkito3 4 місяці тому

    Should tune criss cross in order to prevent a lopsided head!

  • @tiniterangiita6976
    @tiniterangiita6976 Рік тому

    This guy is not traditionally trained