Soukous Guitar Lesson Pdf 19
Tabatha Pasqua
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Otis Lumumba, who is based in London, was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and learned to play the guitar at the age of 8. He was taught by Gaby Diomi, a Congolese guitar master of international repute. Gaby was to become a father figure for Otis, teaching him the traditional styles of rhumba and soukous. Gaby Diomi tragically passed away when Otis was 19 but he remains a very strong influence. After playing in a gospel band for 2 years, Otis got his big break when he joined Wenge Musica Maison Mere and he went on to tour with them worldwide. The tour took him throughout Africa and into Europe where he played to sold-out stadiums. After playing at the Zenith in Paris, the group was nominated for the Kora Award for best African group in 2001 and 2002.
In 2002 Otis settled in England where he continues to play lead guitar for Kanda Bongo Man and Kasai Masai. He has played at Glastonbury, Womad, the Jazz Cafe and the Secret Garden Party. Otis has always enjoyed teaching his style of guitar and is driven by his desire to pass on his love and mastery of soukous and rhumba to others.
If you are interested in playing Soukous music at any level or any other genre for that matter, Otis is the person to go to. Otis is a fantastic teacher, mentor and friend; he will guide you through the steps of whatever you are working on with patience and great attention to detail. As a musician and songwriter, I owe Otis a huge amount for correcting some of my faulty techniques and for introducing me to new ways of conceiving the guitar. Ultimately, go to Otis if you want to improve as a guitar player and musician!
otis is the man
he is not just a teacher to me but also my brother my friend and mentor
not just learning the soukous guitar groove and improving but giving me the best advice in life a young person could ever ask for
If I am lucky to have Otis as a Soukous Guitar teacher is through the Internet. After having my first month lessons I can say that I have started understanding the soukous guitar structures. Yes, Otis is a one of the top class Soukous guitar teacher but he is also, an out going and friendly person. He is always available to teach with flexible hours. Not only I am enjoying my lessons but, I highly recommend him to anyone who seriously want to learn to play guitar specially, the Rumba and Soukous styles.
Paul, East London.
Like the guitar, the strings of the modern kora are often made from nylon, giving a loose, percussive snap on impact. But the resonance that follows is weightless, with a gentle, evenly balanced texture
In this lesson Fernando Perez presents several tunes from West Africa. Directly learnt from African Jalis (Griots) these are traditional as well as original compositions specially arranged for guitar. Imitating the sound of West African instruments such as Kora, Ngoni or Balafon, Fernando demonstrates unique techniques on the guitar in order to perform the groove sand melodies in a faithful way. All the tunes can be played on nylon or Acoustic steel string guitars.
No other instrument has affected popular music quite like the guitar. The impact of the guitar on popular music scenes all over Africa is clear to see and hear, boasting some of the most innovative composers and technically accomplished performers, from soukous to maskanda and beyond. To pick out just a few guitarists from such a vast and diverse continent of music is pretty much impossible. But here, in no particular order, are some of the most influential, interesting and talented guitarists from Africa; some iconic, some less-well known, as well as a nod to the current and emerging six-stringer artists.
Palm-wine music was a big influence on many other musical styles, including Highlife, and Koo Nimo was, and still is, a leading proponent. A classically trained guitarist, Nimo released an album on Riverboat records of Highlife roots revival sounds, with some truly phenomenal finger style guitar playing. Nimo is a hugely respected musican in Ghana and was awarded a gold medal as a distinguished citizen, for his role in the preservation of Ghana's musical heritage. Listen out at the start of the track below for Koo Nimo's ornamentated finger-style guitar lines at the forefront, with inflections of tremolo picking before the song launches into its groove and Nimo's meandering guitar lines strike up conversation with the lead vocalist.
The South African music of Maskanda produced several brilliant guitarists.The late Shiyani Ngcobo was such musician, whose music demonstrates the sound of rural KwaZulu- Natal. An instrumental teacher at the University there, Ngcobo resisted using drumkits and sythensizers alongside his guitar sound. This was the dominant maskanda sound, originally popularised by another guitar great, John Bhengu aka Phuzushukela. With the help of producer Hamilton Nzimande, Phuzushukela brought maskanda into the mainstream in the 1970s with his extraordinary picking technique and the 'modernized' maskanda ensemble. Ngcobo preferred retaining a raw acoustic sound. Despite touring Europe, Cuba and the UK, Ngcobo remained fairly unknown in South Africa beyond his pupils and colleagues, despite their immense respect and admiration for his palying abilities.
Perhaps one of the most interesting guitarists from the continent in recent times is Lionel Loueke, from Benin, who channels the traditions of his heritage through jazz and intricate finger-style technique. Having studied at Berklee College of Music, Loueke has gone on to play alongside many prominent musicians including Robert Glasper and Terence Blanchard. He also features on two Herbie Hancock albums, Possibilitiesand River: The Joni Letters, as well as having his own acclaimed releases, including Karibu and most recently Heritage.
Derek Gripper is a guitarist from Cape Town specialising in the kora music of Mali, in particular the music of Malian kora player Toumani Diabat\u00E9, transferred onto solo, classical six-string guitar.
With the calamity of the aborted European tour behind him, in 1983, Tamfum and a singer named Kayindo, both armed with just acoustic guitars, set out on a tour through Central Africa performing French songs.
Catalog Number: ADG049
Author: Folo Graff
Publisher: ADG Productions
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This is the first practical guide to some of the most beautiful guitar music on earth. For this pioneering tour of some of the great musical styles, Sierra Leonean bandleader and composer Folo Graff draws on nearly twenty years' experience of teaching African guitar all over the world. In one volume, he brings together a huge selection of classic styles old and new from all over the continent, ranging from the desert blues of Mali through West African highlife and Afrobeat to Congolese rumba and soukous and South African township jive.
Perhaps the biggest promise, and danger, of world music is the crossbreeding of various popular, indigenous root musics with one another and/or modern technology. On the one hand, you can end up with soukous, a completely infectious re-Africanized rumba created when African Latin music (already a hybrid) from the Caribbean became popular in Zaire, where the music is now driven by electric guitars.
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