How can I find more ballet (upright) style dunun parts?
Roots Jam 3, like RJ2, mostly has traditional style duns with bells. Variations for upright balletstyle are only included for a few of these: Kassa, Yankadi/Makru, and Mendiani. On the other hand, the upright combo patterns are easy to adapt yourself from the given rhythms (whichever book you’re using). For example, the mute notes (M) can be played by the sangban, and selected bell notes (x) by the kenkeni. The grid layout is useful for seeing the 3 separate dun patterns as a single melody; from this you can adapt a pattern to play on the 3 drums in combination. Here’s an example of how it’s done with Mendiani: Instead of the dununba playing: O – O O – x x – x – O O you can play all three like this: D – D – – S – – K – D D Here’s another example, Kassa: O x x O O x x O becomes D – – D D S K D Roots Jam 2 should give you lots of patterns to work with, and I would encourage you to be creative with these and adapt your own combinations. The basic principle, I would suggest, is to start wi
