Udemy Learn To Play Conga Drums Tone Fundamentals & Basic Rhythms

My name is Willie Garza. I’m a music educator with real world professional experience. I provide people customized focused music education, so you can keep music in your life as a source of human expression, invoking imagination.

At the end of this course, you’ll know how to practice and apply the basic hand strokes, techniques and apply fundamental conga rhythms that are taught in this course. You will understand how to produce and cultivate your own distinctive sound that only you can determine.

My course is designed as if you were taking a private lesson. We first embark on the four individual key hand stokes in depth such as an open tone, slap tone, and heel & toe technique.

Now, just think, once you understand those four basic hand techniques, you will know how to play several conga rhythms such as; Marcha, Chachachá, Tumbao, Basic Samba Rhythm, and the “Funky” all around type of groove. That is pretty-cool! Right?

This course is constructed for beginners of all ages, for people who already play drums, or percussion, who want to understand how to produce a good sound on conga drums. In the end, it is all about learning, having fun and keeping music and rhythm in your life to enjoy.

What you'll learn
Identify how to produce the basic tones on conga drums
Students will learn basic conga rhythms that will create a solid foundation in learning more complex rhythms and techniques
Students will learn to understand how to develop and nurture their own sound on conga drums
Have confidence to further explore the inner creativity learning congas and other hand percussion