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The Bongo Project

2012-02-07T13:44:41Z

Hello Drummers & Percussionist

My Name is Lerryns Hernández, Drumming is my job, percussion is in my heart and bongo playing is my passion. I live in Caracas, Venezuela and I have been involved with music for about 25 years. I introduce you The Bongo Project.

The whole idea of this project consists in playing with the bongo certain songs that lack any kind of percussion in their original versions. This forces me to play in musicals schemes that are quite strange and new for the bongo. Obviously, I avoided selecting themes that had a Latin sound and really thrived for more adventurous and challenging stuff. Of course, the project’s main trait is that I record myself playing the bongo live, since my initial interest was to promote this idea through Youtube, thus showing the World a unique vision of the bongo and its unlimited possibilities.

Please visit The Bongo Project Channel

All comments are welcome

Peace&Beat;
Lerryns Hernández

What do you think?

2012-02-07T16:36:42Z

Novallo:

http://www.facebook.com/NovalloBand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHkwRbCWkqg

Let us know your opinion, thanks for your time. :D

Novallo is looking for YOUR opinion!

2012-02-07T16:30:59Z

Let us know what you think about our drummer!

Here is a link to our facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/NovalloBand

Here is a direct link to one of our songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch

Thanks for you time! :D

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