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Glen Caruba: Funky Cascara For Timbales & Cowbell

Nashville percussionist Glen Caruba demonstrates a cool cascara rhythm on the timbales that incorporates cowbell and works perfectly with a 2:3 clave.

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Photo Lesson: Double Time Your Toys

Use this simple stick technique to roll on your mountable percussion toys and accessories with one hand, while keeping your other hand free to play other instruments.

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Richie “Gajate” Garcia: Tearing It Up On Timbales

Add a tambourine to your timbale setup and introduce new colors that don’t follow the rulebook. Here are a few patterns to help you get started.

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Glen Caruba: How To Coax Four Tones From Timbales

In his brand new video lesson, Nashville session percussionist and DRUM! Magazine columnist Glen Caruba demonstrates four essential tones that can be played on a timbale: A center strike, playing near the edge, rimshots, and cascara, which involves playing rhythms directly on the shell.

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Glen Caruba’s Brush Beat Cajon Tricks

Nashville percussion whiz Glen Caruba is back with a cool new technique for cajon enthusiasts. In this lesson he show how to expand your sonic palette by combining traditional hand slaps with strokes played with bundle rods, using a traditional grip.

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Chops-Building Cajon Exercises For Left Hand

In my last lesson I provided a drum set pattern to be played on a cajon.

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Independent Iyesa: An Afro-Cuban Cowbell Workout

In this independence exercise, we will look at two cowbell patterns that are played in the Afro-Cuban Iyesa rhythm. To get started, you’ll need two cowbells – a cha cha bell and another large cowbell. As always, start off slowly.

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Glen Caruba: Mastering Conga-Diddles

So you thought paradiddles were strictly for drum set players, eh? Well, back in the ’90s, Puerto Rican conga sensation Giovanni Hidalgo blew everybody’s minds by applying drum set rudiments to conga technique, and redefined the boundaries of that age-old discipline. In this exercise, DRUM! columnist Glen Caruba shares a number of paradiddle variations for conga players.

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Glen Caruba: Squeeze Your Agogo

Although native to Brazilian and samba rhythms, agogo bells can be adapted to virtually all styles of contemporary music. If you come across a set that does not have a wing nut for mounting, chances are it is a hand held design in which the handle can be squeezed so that both bells hit together.

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Guiro Grooving: Percussion Vocabulary

Here are some widely used guiro patterns that should be a part of every drummer's percussion vocabulary.