Thursday, February 4, 2010

Stroke #1 Flick of the index finger nail (right hand)
Stroke #2 and 3 left hand standard split finger (index to ring)
Stroke #4 same as stroke #1
Stroke #5 index finger (left hand)
Stroke #6 Thumb in "doum" position
Stroke #7 pop technique, right hand mutes left hand ring handles the "ka" stroke.
Video link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWzXHjGuf5M

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Split Finger Isolation

A simple but practical method which isolates right and left hand split finger. One major thing I stress to students is to make sure the volume balance is equally distributed. Playing a loud "doum" for example is obviously easy, try and balance the volume evenly and keep the split finger exchange competing with the standard strokes (doum tek)