Darbouka Workshop CD

The Darbouka (or Doumbec, Tabla) is a drum widely used in arabic countries, beautiful sounds
and rhythms can be produced even by simple technique.
The Darbouka Workshop CD is the outcome of a prolonged workshop for bellydancers
who wanted to deepen their knowledge of oriental rhythms and can be ordered by email .
The Numbers in thetable of contents are leading to corresponding mp3 files.

The drum language i am using is simple and easy to follow for everyone.
Of course my knowledge of indian tabla language was very helpful.

right (leading) hand: Dum - a bass sound produces by a flat hand stroke in the center of the drumhead
                                      Ta or Tak - a sharp sound by the fingertips on the edge of the skin

left hand: Gum - bass sound (like Dum, but left hand)
                  Ka or Kat - sharp sound (like Ta, but left hand)

This system not only allows to speak the rhythms which is essential for memorizing,
but also indicates which hand should be used for the individual strokes.

As this are exercises thought for beginners they are to be played "hand to hand" throughout;
that means the hands always alternate - the pauses, symbolized by a " - ", can be filled by a slight (!) stroke as in number 50.
That makes for an even flow of strokes, especially for beginners most important.
The beats or main strokes are marked by an "/" , mostly there are 4 strokes in a beat (except 3/4 meter, there we have 6).

1.  Zaffa: Dum - TaKa / Dum - Tak - / Dum - Dum - / Tak - - - // 2.     faster 3.  exercise: Dum - TaKa / TaKaDum - / TaKaTaKa / Dum - TaKa // 4.     faster 5.  Karachi 1: TaKaTaKa / Ta - Dum - // 6.      faster 7.  Karachi 2 (original Karachi): Ta - - Ka / Ta - Dum - // 8.      faster 9.   Karachi 3: Ta - - Ka / Ta - Dum - / TaKa - Ka / Ta - Dum - // 10. Ayub Variation: Dum - TaKa / Dum - Tak - / TaKaTaKa / TaKaDum - // 11. Ayub : Dum - - Ka / Dum - Tak - // 12.   faster 13. Bayou: Dum - - Gu / Dum - Tak - // 14. Maqsuum: DumKa - Ka / Dum  - Tak - // 15. exercise: DumKaTaKa / TaKaTaKa // 16. exercise: GumTaKaTa / KaTaKaTa // 17. exercise: DuGuTaKa / TaKaTaKa // 18.    faster 19. Zayidi: DumKa - Gu / Dum - Tak - // 20. Maqsuum: DumKa - Ka / Dum - Tak  - // 21. Maqsuum Var 1: DumKa - Ka / Dum - Tak - / DumKa - Ka / DuGuTak - // 22. Maqsuum Var 2: DumKa - Ka / Dum - Tak - /  - Ka - Ka / DuGuTak - // 23. exercise for Chifteteli: Dum - TaKa / Ta - Dum - // 24. exercise for Chifteteli: Dum - TaKa/ Dum - Tak - // 25. exercise for Chifteteli: Dum - TaKa / - - Tak - // 26. exercise for Chifteteli: Dum - TaKa / - - Tak - / Dum - Dum -/ Tak - - - // 27.     faster 28. exercise for Chifteteli grace note:Dum - TaKa / - - Tak - /Dum - Dum -/ Trak - - - // 29. ¾ meter: Dum – TaKaTaKa / Dum - Tak - Tak -  // 30. ¾ meter Var 1 : Dum - TaGuTaKa / Dum - Tak - Tak - // 31. ¾ meter Var 2 : Dum - TaGuTaKa / Dum - TaGuTaKa // 32. ¾ meter Var 3 : DumKaTaGuTaKa / DumKaTaGuTaKa // 33. ¾ persian: Dum - Dum - TaKa / TaKaDum - TaKa /                           Ta - Dum - TaKa / Ta - Dum  - - - // 34. 7 minutes to play along: summary 35. spring rhythms Nr1: DuGuTaKa / TaKaTaKa // 36. Nr2  DuGuTaKa / DuGuTaKa // 37. Nr3  DuGuDuGu / TaKaTaKa // 38. Nr4  DuGuTaKa / TaKaDuGu // 39. Nr5  TaKaDuGu / TaKaDuGu // 40. Nr6  DuGuTaKa / - - TaKa // 41. Nr7  TaKaDuGu / - - TaKa // 42. Nr8  DuGuTaKa / - - TaKa / TaKaDuGu / - - TaKa // 43. Nr9  DuGuTaKa / TaKaDuGu / - - TaKa / DuGu - - // 44. Nr10 TaKaDuGu / TaKa - - / TaKaTaKa / Du GuTaKa // 45. Nr11 Tak – DuGu / - Ka - Gu / Dum - Tak - / DuGu - Ka //   46. faster: Nr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 47. faster: Nr 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 48. Darabouka Samba:  Dum - TaGu / Dum - TaGu / Dum – TaKat / - KaTaGu // 49. Chifteteli: Dum - - Ka / - - Tak - / Dum - Dum - / Tak - - - // 50. Chifteteli with pauses filled by ghost notes 51. Zaffa plus variation TraKa : Dum - TraKa / Ta - Ka - / Dum - Dum - / Tra - Ka - // 52. Zaffa variation 2a:  Thema +  Tra - Ka - / Tra - Ka - / Dum - Dum - / Tra - Ka - // 53. Zaffa variation 2b:  Thema + Tra - Ka - / Dum - Dum - / Tra - Ka - / Tra - Ka - // 54. Zaffa variation 2c:  Thema +  Tra - Ka - / Dum - Tra - / Ka - Dum - / Tra - Ka - // 55. Zaffa variation 2d:  Thema +  TaKaTaKa / TaKaTaKa /Dum - Dum - / Tra - Ka -// 56. Zaffa var 3-1: Dum - TaKa / TaKaDum - / TaKaTaKa / Ta - Ka - /                 TaKaTaKa / TaKaTaKa / Dum - Dum - / Tra - Ka - // 57. Zaffa var 3-2: Dum - TaKa / TaKaDum - / TaKaTaKa / Ta - Dum - /                 TaKaTaKa / TaKaTaKa / Dum - Dum - / Tra - Ka - // 58. Zaffa var 3-3: TaKaDum - / TaKaDum - / TaKaTaKa / Ta - Dum - /                 TaKaTaKa / TaKaTaKa / Dum - Dum - / Tra - Ka - // 59. Zaffa Var 3-4: Dum - TaKa / Dum - Tak - / TaKaTaKa / Dum - Tak - /                 TaKaTaKa / TaKaTaKa / Dum - Dum - / Tra - Ka - // 60. Zaffa var 3-5: Dum - TaKa / Dum - Tak - / - -TaKa / Dum - Tak - /                  - - TaKa / TaKaTaKa / Dum - Dum - / Tra – Ka - // 61. Karachi var Thema: Ta - - Ka / Ta - Dum - / TaKa - Ka / Ta - Dum - // 62. Karachi var 1: Thema + Ta - - Ka / Ta - Dum - / DuGuTaKa / TaKaDum - // 63. Karachi var 2: Thema + Ta - - Ka / Ta - DuGu / TaKaTaKa / TaKaDuGu // 64. Karachi var 3: Thema + Ta - - Ka / Ta - DuGu / TaKaDuGu / TaKaDuGu // 65. Karachi var 4: Thema + Ta - - Ka / Ta - DuGu / TaKaTaGu / TaKaDuGu // 66. Maqsuum and variations for playing along