Rhythm

Good rhythmic skills are essential to musicians. The following links provide tools to help the musician's quest towards better rhythm:

• Adam Rugo's Drum Links. A collection of drum links.
• African Drum Rhythms. Textbook and practice tapes for the djembe by Lennart Hallstrom.
• Bill Powelson's School of Drums. The drum set lessons are free at this site.
• Chhandayan Tabla School. Founded by Pundit Samir Chatterjee. Classes are held in N.Y.C. Washington D.C., and Delaware.
• Chuck Silverman. A drummer/percussionist who leads workshops using world rhythms as an interactive approach to multiculatural learning.
• Congolese Dance and Drum Workshop. Great workhsop in Maui, Hawaii.
• Conundrum Music. Drum resources on the net.
• Cougar WebWorks Rhythm Section. This webzine provides resources for hand drummers from beginning to performing level, including notation for traditional and improvised patterns, a book-length rhythm collection, and tips on jams and trance-dances.
• DJEMBE-L FAQ. A list of resources from the DJEMBE-L African percussion mailing list. Books, tapes, CD's, videos, etc.
• Drumnet. Richie Teh's site devoted to all things related to drums.
• Drums from a Small Planet. Seminar to help people better understand their neighbors by understanding the cultures they come from through music, utilizing the most basic and intrinsic element in our common musical heritage - the drum.
• Dumbek. Guide to Turkish and Armenian odd meter rhythms for doumbek.
• Frank Colón's Percussion Playground. Information about Brazilian percussion and Frank's own Techno-Primal Music jazz/world music blend.
• Jamie's Drum Page. Drums, drummers, and drum links.
• High Tech Talking Drums. Talking Drums mount on a stand and use foot pedal to change the pitch. Designed to easily integrate with Drumset or Percussion setups. Enables both hands.
• Indian Rhythm Cycles. Exercises and MIDI files of North and South Indian Rhythms.
• Percussive Innovations. Drum accessories.
• Percussion East. Percussion instruments for world music.
• Percussion Site. Home page of Marc Zoutendijk's percussion site.
  • Percussion Links. Marc Zoutendijk's list of percussion links.
• PulseWave Percussion. Kim Atkinson's site dedicated to rhythm education, percussion of Africa, Brazil and the Caribean. Features Shockwave audio of world fusion music with ToKenKi.
• Rhythm Tech. The folks who make the half-moon tambourine and more.
• RhythmWeb.Com. Fantastic site with lots of rhythm information and links.
• Soundage Music . Offers drum lessons on-line, tips, links, private instruction, MIDI sequences, and much more!
• Tabla Composer. Demo version of Tabla Composer for Windows, a program for composing tabla compositions.
• The Tabla Site. Great source of information about this North Indian drum.
• Taal Wizard. Software designed for creating and playing patterns of Indian drums.
• Thrumming. A method that makes the human element an integral part of electronic drumming.
• Vintage Drum Center. One of the world's largest dealers of vintage drums.