Rhythm

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

• AATMI Djembe.West African musical instruments and drums, designed created and sold by the group AATMI Djembe.
• Adam Rugo's Drum Links. A collection of drum links.
• African Drum Rhythms. Textbook and practice CDs for the djembe by Lennart Hallstrom.
• African Rhythm Exercises. Exercises and MIDI files of West African drum rhythms.
• Afro Mart. African djembe drums and accents for less.
• Alessio Riccio. Drummer/percussionist from Firenze, Italy.
• Balinese Interlocking Rhythms. Exercises and MIDI files of Balinese gamelan.
• Bang a Drum. Sells hand drums and percussion instruments from around the world.
• Bill Powelson's School of Drums. The drum set lessons are free at this site.
• Bridgesto.com. Brazilian percussion site with free video lessons to download.
• Britchops Drum Tuition. Drum charts by top rock bands, Yamaha XG MIDI files (with adjustable tempo), and extensive tutor notes.
• Canjondrum. Flamenco rhythms information.
• Chhandayan Tabla School. Founded by Pundit Samir Chatterjee. Classes are held in N.Y.C. Washington D.C., and Delaware.
• ClassicalTabla.Com. Jim Feist's tabla music site.
• Chuck Silverman. A drummer/percussionist who leads workshops using world rhythms as an interactive approach to multiculatural learning.
• Congolese Dance and Drum Workshop. Great workshop 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.
• Curso de percusion. Percussion Course in Argentina.
• Djembe. Ika Mardianti Djembe: beautiful African drums made in Bali, Indonesia.
• Djembe African drums. Djembe african drums, handmade ethnic percussion, and large size djembe, kpanlogo, and bougarabou.
• DjembeAfricanDrums.biz. This web site is dedicated to djembe african drums and its history.
• Djembes.org. Site dedicated to this popular African drum.
• DJEMBE-L FAQ. A list of resources from the DJEMBE-L African percussion mailing list. Books, tapes, CD's, videos, etc.
• Drum Lab. Founded by Robert Shi in 1988 and now the largest drum lesson provider in NC. Site includes a first aid kit of products of interest to drummers.
• Drum Lessons in New York. Mike Veny's site about his teaching activities.
• Drumnet. Richie Teh's site devoted to all things related to drums.
• Drum Solo Artist. Drum Solo Artist Official Site is dedicated to drum solo artists, drum solo techniques, custom drums, custom drum setups and rhythm in general.
• 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.
• Drums Of Steel. Website of Hameed Shaqq, Known as "The Pan Piper of Toronto", a name synonymous with Steelpan music excellence.
• Drums HQ Resource Directory. All about Drums.
• Dumbek. Guide to Turkish and Armenian odd meter rhythms for doumbek.
• Ethnicsound. Born from the desire to share natural and ecological sonorities, in a modern environment, where acoustic pollution has reached a point of exasperation. This percussion web site, produced by Touchè Moreno, proposes a series of sounds, of images and of information about musical instruments from various ethnic groups and archaic origins.
• Frank Colón's Percussion Playground. Information about Brazilian percussion and Frank's own Techno-Primal Music jazz/world music blend.
• Girish. World percussionist.
• 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.
• I-drum.com. Online drum lessons.
• Indian Rhythm Cycles. Exercises and MIDI files of North and South Indian Rhythms.
• Infography about Tabla. Tabla instruction and study.
• Jamie's Drum Page. Drums, drummers, and drum links.
• Jas's Doumbek Rhythms. An annotated list of traditional rhythms used for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music; includes MIDI player and samples.
• Kenne Thomas' Drums From A Small Planet. Percussionist, author, and educator Kenne Thomas provides info on lessons, workshops, and drum circles.
• Mundobeat Metronome. Metronomes that can be programmed for Indian classical rhythms, flamenco, etc.
• New Brushwork Techniques. Book for drummers.
• Nickos Kapilidis. Odd rhythm cycles as performed by this Greek drummer.
• Percussive Innovations. Drum accessories.
• Percussion East. Percussion instruments for world music.
• Percussionmusic.com. A wonderful online catalog of percussion books, videos, CDs and other items of interest to percussionists.
• 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.
• Sabirmusic.com. DVDs for learning tabla and harmonium at home.
• Sam Aliano. Drummer whose band has supported Planet X, Dave Weckl Band, and Vital Information. His Solo CD features Frank Gambale, Brandon Fields and Brett Garsed.
• Soundage Music . Offers drum lessons on-line, tips, links, private instruction, MIDI sequences, and much more!
• Swar Systems. Publisher of the TaalTrax CD featuring 6 Indian instruments in more than 400 Mb of CD quality Wave files and 412 MIDI loops.
• Tabla Central. Site devoted to the North Indian tabla.
• 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.
• Tapdrum. The alternate way to play percussion using fingers. Mounts on a guitar strap.
• Tarang World of Tabla. The amazing world of tabla.
• Thrumming. A method that makes the human element an integral part of electronic drumming.
• Traditional Dance Rhythms of Ghana. Learn African percussion using tapes by a master drummer and ensemble with a book including transcriptions, photos, and extensive notes.
• Vintage Drum Center. One of the world's largest dealers of vintage drums.
• Virtual Drummer School. Salvador Niebla's online drum school with lessons from teachers including Bill Bruford, Ignacio Berroa, Luis Conte, Nicko McBrain, Efrain Toro, Jorge Rossy, and Peer Wyboris. Ethnomusicology departments include Flamenco and Arabic percussion lessons.
• Wooden Bongo. New percussion instrument.
• Web Association of Percussionists Links. Ethnic page of of the Web Association of Percussionists.
• West African Drums. What it says it is.
• World Tabla Site. Online tabla lessons, rhythms, notations
• World Rhythm Training. A large on-line presentation of training in the rhythms of Africa, Bali and India.
• World Fusion Rhythms. Fusing rhythms from many traditions.