Take an important lesson on how to get various tones out of the skin.
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The purpose of this site is to provide individuals interested in world music with a comprehensive resource for further exploration and study. Here you can find historical background, video instruction from a master drummer, pictures and audio samples that are relevant to each rhythm. We hope that with this holistic approach we help to preserve the historical ethnic authenticity of the cultures that have produced the music.
About the Touch Tone Team
- Touch Tone Team
- This site is a collaboration between master drummer and Dartmouth College professor Hafiz Shabazz and his student Pete Mathias , percussionist and member of Dartmouth's class of 2009. Professor Shabazz has studied at the University of Ghana and The Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He has also studied in Cuba with master drummers and folklorists and has performed with Max Roach, Lionel Hampton, and Julius Hemphill in addition to Alhaji Bia Konte, Master Cora and Griot of Gambia, West Africa. He has toured in France, the Carribean, the United States, and Canada. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Duke University and currently teaches at Dartmouth. He is an initiated member of the Ancestral Shrine of the Ashanti Nation in Ghana, West Africa, has authored articles for the Black Music Research Journal, and was a consultant with John Chernoff in the writing of African Rhythms and Sensibilities.
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