"Akaran Iko Iko is very good, very easy to understand, the pedagogy is very good and at the same time will make you laugh. My advice is that every student should have this DVD in their library." -- Grand Master Drummer Mamady Keita ************************************************************************************************ New DVD featuring Tam Tam Mandingue Professors: Mahiri-Fadjimba Keita, Menes Yahuda, and Michael Taylor. With intro in Deutsch, English, Español, Français and 日{語, this fully interactive DVD hits the space between instructional and performance and is intended to be used by folks already studying djembe. ************************************************************************************************ This dvd has several purposes – they are: To supplement Grand Master Drummer Mamady Keita’s instructional dvd’s – each rhythm on this dvd is available in instructional format, part by part on Mamady Keita’s instructional dvd’s, available at www.ttmusa.org Also, it can be used as a tool for drummers who already play for dance classes or who aspire to play for dance classes both - djembe and dunun drummers, – build your stamina playing steadily and clearly at high tempos or for anyone working on solo techniques for djembe and variations on songban and dununba And finally, for anyone seeking continued reinforcement of what they already know so that they might learn again, again ************************************************************************************************************** Assumptions we, the creators of this dvd, are making: That you know the basic structure of the instrumentation in the Mande djembe orchestra, that you know the roles and responsibility of each dunun in the Mande djembe orchestra, that you have studied traditional Mande djembe music and that you how important it is to uphold oral tradition (making certain you know important details about each djembe rhythm), that you know logic (handing) consistent with djembe rhythms of the Mande, that you know what "breaks" are and lastly, that you are working on your djembe technique - just like learning scales on a piano, one must master the 3 basic notes on the djembe (bass, tone, slap) in order to play this music correctly and clearly