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Ok, but as a "real" drummer do you have any experience with traditional African polyrhythms? While to an untrained ear this might sound cacophonous, if you listen closely and pay attention, everything is playing in a logical rhythmic way. I know it's easy to dismiss something that you don't understand immediately but my real problem with you is the way you enforce musical norms and who gets to be a "real" drummer. Like, you can just say "I don't get it", and leave it at that

You old "real"😂 drummer have absolutely no clue of what your talking about. Afrobeat was invented by Fela Kuti, a multi-instrumentalist, musician/composer who took African harmonic and rhythmic concepts like the one you've just seen and combined them with many contemporary musical genres to create Afrobeat. While Afrobeats is just a blend of Afrobeat, hip hop, dancehall and other things. At most 100 years old genre. What you've just seen comes from hundreds probably closer to 1000 years old traditional rhythm passed on from generation to generation. Very complex polyrhythm that apparently an old real drummer cannot comprehend so automatically feels entitled to make an ignorant comment on. Sell your drums mate. You don't deserve them 😊

@antonio - this is a traditional rhythm that's been around for a *long* time. The ensemble size and arrangement is common in Guinea, also parts of Senegal, Mali, and Ivory Coast for onstage performance as well as a style that's often played in cities. In the villages, the number of drummers might be less, but it's still ensemble work, with the doundouns (collective name for all 3 bass drums) playing melody. The djembe players us that as a kind of scaffold or support for their individual parts + solos. This is complex music - so please, take some time to learn about it before you start in commenting. The more you become familiar with these kinds of ensembles and the music they play, the more the intricacy of the various parts and how they work together will unfold for you. The one thing that isn't here: interaction with dancers. That's where everything really comes alive! (FWIW, I play bass djembe and sangban, which is the medium-sized bass drum.)

P.S. Afrobeat is a recent invention and very much an urban thing, developed in cities like Lagos, Nigeria. The rhythms played are quite different than what's in this video, but they're drawn from traditions of polyrhythmic ensemble playing, like Yoruba talking drum groups and related music (played on a variety of drums). I'm not a set player, I'm a hand percussionist. I play darbuka/Arabic tabla, and various Arab, Turkish, and Persian frame drums in addition to djembe and doundoun.

Check out these players! Obviously, they've been playing together for years. It will give you a clearer idea of the interaction between the bass drums and the djembe - m.czcams.com/video/7kgstsO0jNg/video.html

Ça va être long mais pour résumer, ils ceci : allez dire à mon oncle, lorsqu’il sera fort, que je lui donne le vieux coq que j’ai ! La traduction ne peut être exactement cela mais c’est proche