10 posts tagged vocal percussion

This week has been a break from my usual routine and discipline. A great friend is here from Stockholm and so instead of working with rehearsing, writing, recording or marketing I we have been spending time “listening to great music and talking about life” as Anna put it. “That is what our friendship is about,” she says.

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New York–based Cameroonian vocal virtuoso Gino Sitson comes from a long line of musicians known as Ntontas (“players of horns”). read more

[Resources] Mouthdrumming Instructional Videos on acaTunes March 3rd, 2008 Wes Carroll’s vocal percussion instructional videos, Mouthdrumming I and II, are now available for download from acaTunes.  Whether you’re starting at the beginning or are just looking to perfect your technique, Wes can

I keep meaning to write my "personal musical history" but keep getting sidetracked going through my old music. I guess at some point i'll write a comprehensive, chronological account of the evolution of my taste, but for now, expect a shitload of record reviews that should have happened in or around the year 2000.

When did our ancestors first engage in creating music? The answer is not known. But music has been around a long time: musical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts discovered, far older than our forays into agriculture. The oldest known instrument is a Slovenian bone flute from around fifty thousand years ago.

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It's no secret that I have many unnecessary and un-useful skills. It once prompted my friend Brandon to call me the "king of party tricks". One of these skills is vocal percussion. I've spent a lot of time (too much?) since my freshman year of high school perfecting the art of mimicking a drum set with my mouth.

It's no secret that I have many unnecessary and un-useful skills. It once prompted my friend Brandon to call me the "king of party tricks". One of these skills is vocal percussion. I've spent a lot of time (too much?) since my freshman year of high school perfecting the art of mimicking a drum set with my mouth.

The following explanation of the emergence of jazz is a summary of ideas found in Bruno Nettl’s introduction to ethnomusicology, Music in Primitive Culture, first published in 1956. I have mostly kept the terminology of the original. My additions are in square brackets and I have added my own conclusion.