Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1192180 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

Warner Brothers Publications
A complete study, including illustrations, on all the Latin rhythms.

Customer Reviews

Good instruction & Good price
I've been doing set drumming for quite a few years, but wanted to get into hand drumming. I picked up a set of bongos and decided that some pointers and guidelines would be helpful.

This book presented some rhythmic patterns which I could use in performance settings. I've used a number of the rhythms and also used some as guidelines to improvise and create my own.

There were other books on this subject which were priced higher because they include a CD, as well. This is a good book to pick up if you want a good price and don't want/need the CD too.

not your first bongo book
This book presents about twenty rhythms for bongos, but in a very concise manner and the classical musical notation which does not show which types of strokes are used - you have to figure out the fingering yourself. This book is not an instructional material - I guess it is meant for intermediate bongo player as a reference to quickly look up basics of rhytms he is less used to.

However, this is a reprint of rather old material and does not include newer developments in latin music such as the songo.
In my opinion, beginners would be far better off by paying slightly more for the "Bongo Book" by T.Salloum which also includes a CD of examples, or his second volume "Beyond Basics" which also features playalong tracks.

Beginners to Advanced
The compilation of rythms by Evans is displayed in a clear and appropriate manner. The rythms are suitable to both an advanced and the aspiring bongo drummer. An excellent set of skills to add to your repetoir!