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This book was created by Grand Master Drummer Mamady Keita, from Guinea, West Africa for his international schools, the Tam Tam Mandingue Djembe Academy, International Schools of Percussion. Specifically, this is curriculum and instruction for traditional djembe and dunun (djembe orchestra) music. It also includes instruction on djembe and dunun technique. This volume features 63 traditional djembe rhythms in box (aka ""matrix"") notation as well as Western stave notation. In addition, each rhythm features oral history (ethnographic information) as well as maps showing geographic origins.

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"This book was based on what many in the djembe community to be the seminal work of literary djembe instruction, Grand Master Drummer Mamady Ke�ta's first book ""A Life for the Djembe"". The TTMDA Curriculum Book 1 was created as an update to the first book, adding maps and more detail, as well as Western notation in addition to the box (matrix) notation. It comes with audio tracks in instructional format for many of the rhythms in the book - to get the audio tracks, please contact Taylor via taylor@holygoat.com."

"This book was based on what many in the djembe community to be the seminal work of literary djembe instruction, Grand Master Drummer Mamady Keïta's first book ""A Life for the Djembe"". The TTMDA Curriculum Book 1 was created as an update to the first book, adding maps and more detail, as well as Western notation in addition to the box (matrix) notation. It comes with audio tracks in instructional format for many of the rhythms in the book - to get the audio tracks, please contact Taylor via taylor@holygoat.com."

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