"Art of middle Eastern Rhythms" Book + 6 CDs Start Price USD 79.00 Current Price USD 79.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, August 29, 2008 End Time Monday, September 08, 2008 Location Tel Aviv See more about '"Art of middle Eastern Rhythms" Book + 6 CDs' Description This listing is for a book for self teching how to play the Darbuka instrument professionally   This is a comprehensive look at the hundreds of rhythms played in the Middle Eastern region, including names, history, country of origin and notation, with the explanations and exercises on how to play them. Iit is written and compiled by Kobi Hagoel, and is suitable For experts and novices alike. An all in one English, Hebrew, German, Spanish and French 136 page hardcover version. This amazing book contains 422 rhythms, 474 if you count the 52 warmups at the beginning, with well recorded examples of each on the 6 CD set which is included. In our opinion, it is an absolute must have for any serious student of Middle Eastern Percussion.Here's what one student had to say: "As I live in a small town in the North of the Netherlands, far away from Amsterdam or other big cities, I am condemned to learn to play the darbuka without a teacher. I had help a while from a Kurdish refugee and find a lot of information on internet and listen a lot to related music. I try to play now for 2 years, my first "big"improvement came after buying the video "Arabic Percussion"by Yinon Muallem, actually a former student from Kobi." "But since October I have [had] Kobi's book and I have the idea that these last 3 months I progressed as much as the 2 years before I had this book. The excercises are easy to follow and that is exactly what brings about the progress. Just follow the lessons (about 50) and practise, practise, practise.... Actually there are much more lessons than these 50, because Kobi encourages you to "copy and paste"and play first half lesson with second half of next lesson, or a dum instead a tek, or from right to left, to double speed and to vary the dynamics. I often find myself in a fantastic "groove"by just practising.Amazing, thanks to Kobi for this wonderfull teaching. The book has also a large collection of rhythms from Greece, Turkey, Egypt and to check how you are doing you can listen to the 6 CD's that came with the book."Peace and drum......Jaring Huijser, GDG member, Netherlands..   Good luck & Happy bidding Place a Bid!