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Speaker 1: This is the difference between the conga and the djembe. If you look closely, you see the conga is a little taller, djembe in this time is a little shorter. The tension on the skin is achieved by the pulling with these metal rods. The djembe is with a rope. Okay? The bass that comes out of this small bottom is played here. Your bass? My tone is played here.
Speaker 2: My tone is right here.
Speaker 1: My slap has an advance from the tone area to the slap area like this. More center.
Speaker 2: So my slap doesn't go in the center. My slap stays into the drum. My slap is like this.
Speaker 1:Wow. I hope everybody caught that. We're going to play a little bit for you to show you the color and sound of this wonderful instrument playing with another wonderful instrument. The conga and the djembe. Now you've heard the difference in sound, but there's really not that many differences. You can appreciate the differences in both instruments, the conga and the djembe.
Djembe has one of the most satisfying sounds in world music
Indeed
No...Indian Tabla has it ....go Nd search
Stephan ikr
Can you extrapolate what you are alluding to (when you say you "disagree" with Mr. Barlow) ?? It sounds like you're picking a fight with him-- his comment was innocuous.
It was much like someone complimenting the color of a painting. Then you come in and say "I disagree. The painter is great...the canvas that paint is applied to is a rough,
matted surface....not bright or reflective. A thin sheet of ceramic paper with a frame, has better reflective qualities to provide more vibrant colors.
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I like how they sound together.
Bongos and Congas together can also sound great.
Now, if there were also somebody playing the tabla.
Same
I often combine two ethnic drums together (like Tablas and Djembe, or Doumbek and Timbales) and as long as you know what you’re doing, they can sound pleasant when combined.
Djembe and Conga together is like long separated cousins reuniting.
That's pretty much it
Well said
More like the conga and the bougarabo though, much more similar.
And djembe and darbouka
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THE MORE I GET TO KNOW AFRICAN CULTURE , THE MORE I LOVE IT. AFRICA IS MY BRIGHTEST PART OF WORLD HERITAGE , RIGHT FROM MY CHILDHOOD. NA KUPENDE AFRICA. LOVE FROM BENGAL, INDIA.
Thanks for this basic instruction and showing the differences between the two drums. A lot of people get them confused, so this helps.
I have Djembe I got as kid & I used to think it was a conga. Learning that it was a Djembe helped me learn to play better rhythms & technique on it.
Listening to them both gave me the LITERAL tingles! They sound so wonderful apart, and together.
Both make such beautiful sounds!
Absolutely
It's ALL from Africa, Cajon as well. Doesn't matter where it was created. Thank our ancestors for the gift they left and enjoy the music.
Afro cuban who came from Africa brought the concept there with them. So your "originated" idea is falsewood. Do you think that English "originated" in Australia when Europeans arrived there? Do you think that is a coincidence that Conga, Samba, Bongo... are all African words?
Aleke Chapen
Was this directed at me or the previous post?
+DRO NOYB
I was answering to Mariivoire who claims to know the "origine" of Conga.
Aleke Chapen
Understood. I get what she is saying. The drum itself was created in Cuba, but you are also correct. The concept of the Conga drum is due to the knowledge of the Africans brought to Cuba. In other words, without Africans there would be no Conga either way.
goku what are you doing here?!?
Wow! Lovely! I remember the pleasant sound of the Djembe and Congas in My Country South África. When I was a child I liked to dance when in the streets of Johannesburg City I listened to the musicians play. Thanks for the músic Masters. 🥰♥️🇿🇦💋
Drums are the best instruments ever!!! Whether you're a contemporary drum set drummer (if that made any sense), or a traditional percussionist, the drums, in my opinion, give you a lot of options and liberties to use to your advantage!!! Drums are love. Drums are life!!! 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
If you are doing worship music, the djembe compliments the acoustic guitar very well! Even though I love the cajon and the congas, I prefer the Djembe for the pairing.
Just imagine if politicians could enjoy working & communicating together as well as these two musicians do?
America.... and other countries would be in a much better place.
@@iheartwaffles91 America is a continent bruh
@@julen9438 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is a horrible analog for policy making
duscodick
I really love the man at left he looks so happy, such a positive vibe :P
1:13 WOW I HOPE EVERYBODY CAUGHT THAT
Lmaoooo
Gave a character in dnd bongos and got me poking around for songs and such. Somehow ended up here and while these aren't the bongos I was looking for, they are still awesome and a sound I didn't know I needed in my life. Thanks for sharing guys!
Thats really funny cause that's why I'm here too! I wan't to play a bard and I'm look around at different drums and there are so many cool drums I didn't know about!
Delightful video! It's really great to see folk having a complete blast playing their respective drums, even if it's only for a brief moment. Thanks for sharing this !
Love how the Djembe sounds! Bright and crisp!
Damn these dude's voices are so chill
I would have preferred it if the conga player had played a real conga from Africa. It would have matched up better with the Djembe' for this demonstration. The difference being the African Conga has pegs on the side of the drum instead of metal for tuning the drum. This give it and entirely different tone when played. The Djembe' is from Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Ivore' de Cote'. The Conga is from Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Upper Volta, Congo. The Djembe' is used by the Mandinka people, SuSu people, Felani people. The Conga is used by the Ashanti people, Yoruba people, Ibo people. With that being said this was a good demonstration of mixing the two drums together like we have done in my band The Black Butterflies.
Don't forget, the djembe is also used by my people! Haha
@@Odderek And who you people might be, yorubas!!!!!
I love the fact that djembe was paired up with a Latin American drum.
Showing the diaspora.
Broke: Côte d'Ivoire
Woke: Ivore' de Cote'
I just bought my first musical instrument at 59 years of age and wished I'd done it years ago after hearing kesseke Yeo teaching and playing with drummers on commercial drive in Vancouver. Drum circles draw my ears and wake up my body as though it had been sleeping all it's life! Today was my first day with my new drum and what a day sitting and learning her tones! Hoping to wake others up while I'm in this awesome chapter of life! Thanks for explaining the Djembe origins, one question is was it historically played by women?
So many types of tones come out of the Djembe. It is like a full drums and cymbols set at the tips of your fingers. And more easy to carry.
They both sound very lovely. I would have mentioned, though, that a significant part of the difference in the sounds comes from the thin goat-skin on the Djembe, versus the thick cow-skin on the Conga.
or goat skin
mano a mano Agreed. Also the shape of the drum as well as the thickness and type of wood it's made from. I used to make Ashiko style drums and used goat skins and there was a significant difference in sound (and weight...lol) from a half inch thick shell to a 1 inch thick shell as well as a difference from a soft wood (like pine) to a hard wood (like maple).
This is amazing! Just purchased a Djembe recently to improve my rhythm in my music
Pure African and Afro-Cuban...it's all beautiful!
Dawn Eshelman
It's only Cuban, no need for the afro
Yudah El Afro Cuban is needed considering the fact Cuba is mostly white. The instrument is from Afro Cubans.
@@yudahel8521 Afro Cuban. Most people downplay the vast African contribution to Cuban and "Latin" music. They need to be reminded.
@@xtine3080 mostly mixed.
Why don’t we just call it Latin percussion?
I played djembé for a while, it's so freakin HARD to get that high-pitched tone right
M'bemba Bangoura!!! My teacher, I was his apprentice in NYC.
Lucky you; it's hard not to smile when you see him smile in this vid :)
Creo que se podria hablar también un poco sobre la historia de los instrumentos. Aunque estean hoy muy difundidos la conga es un instrumento afrocubano, viene y carga una historia y una identidad. El djembe tambiém tiene su historia y su contexto. Creo que seria muy interesante presentar también este encuentro, que no es solo sonoro pero de culturas y trayectorias
My husband has a Djembe drum like that...I have a Turkish style MEINL Darbukas . Beautiful sound.
Brethren, this is what what will make world peace. Bless you, both!
Now I want a drum so I can play like the guy on the left. He is awesome
Two very nice instruments played by expert players. Thank you very much.
Djembe master what a happy man. Thank you both the drum masters.
BEAUTIFUL I LOVE DRUMS!!!! Especially the ones of Cultures. Love Africa man, yall amazing!!💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Thanks for sharing this joyful teamwork!
Thanks for playing for us!
This is awesome! I'm about to teach my 8th graders about world drumming. Thanks guys!
That guys smile is infectious :)
He's the Bob Ross of conga.
The drum was given the name "conga" in Cuba. The drum itself is from Africa. In Brazil the drum is called an "atabaque". Sometimes you hear the term tumbadora to refer to one with a deeper tone. African slaves imported to Brazil made the drums upon arrival in Brazil mostly to practice their religions of which candomble is still practiced today in Brazil. It is similar to santeria which also uses drums.
There is also the bomba drum which is played in traditional music in Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the Afro-Carribean and Afro-Latin America. That too is a type of oversized conga.
Yudah El
No they are not. They are of bantu and West African origins. FACT!
Just because YOU deny your roots, doesn't mean others do it as well. Let these people claim theirs.
The Djembe drum always ALWAYS get me going.
I could listen to that all day
The exact history of the conga drum seems to be a bit misunderstood. I've read various articles that seem to point to either an African or Cuban descent. However one thing is sure: that the name 'Conga' is actually used incorrectly in the U.S. In Cuba, where these drums were developed, the word conga is usually only applied to a drum and rhythm played during Carnaval (or Mardi Gras in the U.S). A more accurate term, used in a traditional sense and by most Spanish-speakers, is tumbadora. This term is not traditionally applied to the drums played in Carnaval, but for those played in most traditional and commercial Cuban music.
According to Nolan Warden's brief history on the Conga drum, Cuban rhythms were picked up and popularized by the U.S. media in the early to mid-1900's when people were freely traveling to and from Cuba. This led to many U.S. pop-culture explosions of "Latin" styles, one of which was la conga. Even today, a watered-down version of the la conga rhythm isn't hard to find at public gatherings throughout the U.S. This and other pop-culture use mistakenly led to the word conga being used to refer to all Cuban drums of similar construction.
The word tumbadora, which is considered more accurate among Cubans and aficionados, comes from the folkloric style called rumba (not ballroom rhumba). Since rumba is considered to be responsible for the musical development of these drums, the word tumbadora is used out of respect for that setting as opposed to conga, which is a more commercial term. Today, it's not really necessary for English-speaking percussionists to call these drums tumbadoras. Congas or Conga Drums works just fine!
The country Congo in Africa wasn't called Congo until 1960, it's name was changed to Zaire in 1971 by then President, and then in 1997 the then president renamed the country to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The tumbadora is native to Cuba. Thanks
Cretin
I read some of the other comments. It is not about which is better, it is about what culture the drum comes from. Some of these comments are made with no understanding of the culture that originated the drum nor do they care. They think it is just an instrument to be played. But if you know the culture of the drum, then when you play the drum you get the spirit of the drum and then you can make music. The Conga is not a Afro-Cubian drum or a Spanish drum, it is an African drum that was made by the African slaves that was brought over to the West Indies. The African slaves maintain their culture, even in their religion, and the drum was a part of that culture. The same is true for the Djembe' in West African. Both are dynamic in their own way and together even more dynamic. However you have to have people who knows how to play both to truly be able to blend the two together. These two drummer know how to blend the two together even though it was a short demonstration.
Awesome - Love the sound of these together
Beth Bartlett b
his smile makes me happy .. so innocent
The djembe one was like heaven to my ears
+Kawaii Flavored thats cos that conga is not tuned and he cant play congas
@@twerpantine...
So Beautiful All from Mother Earth She is So Amazing. You Brothers Did an Excellent job 🙌🎵🎶
Lyeta Herb im pretty sure everything we own is from mother earth lol
I get the feeling like one couldn't sound better without another 🔥🔥🔥
the djembe has way better bass
but the conga has a better tone hehe
Armando Emiliano djembe sounds like a big bongo to me
i like how they sound together
I love djembe's player smile
it's a pleasure to see good people and listen nice sounds!
And for all those arguing about were the conga is from: the conga was created in Cuba. The conga comes from the djembe, the ngoma and the Djembe and earliest traces of the drum come from Africa. There is that better?! Hahaha don't beat me up lol
Woops. Correction: "comes from the djembe, ngoma and the bata (as when the Africans came to the Americas as slaves they didn't being with them the drums but their culture which they continue to practice in the Americas with what was available here (from what the French, the Spanish brought over (plus possibly what the Indians had left behind))
Happy Birthday Ely
rafael germosen Thanks Raffy!
Apparently most of the modern/popular hand drums are Afro-Cuban.
+Michael Jones Depends how you quantify popular, India has a very high population, and they have more different hand drums than any other country in the world.
Love these music instruments.
The conga came from the Kongo drum, this is a typical Central west african drum...
Rushad Mickennzi read the title “african drums”
@@RPM1776 the conga come from Cuba man
LEWIIN from africa to cuba
It's far more complicated. The conga drum was created in Cuba by Africans and was part of an evolution of drums that were basically African drums recreated by enslaved Africans in Cuba. If you want to learn more, check out this brief history www.nolanwarden.com/Conga_Drum_History(Warden).pdf It has references from scholars like Fernando Ortiz, probably the most prolific Afro-Cuban music historian of the 20th Century.
Thank you! You guys make an awesome duo!
7 years on youtube and i only just found this vid ........... " GREAT STUFF "
2 wanderfull instruments in harmony ... and the drums soun good too
Good vibes with Mbemba. Hasan forgot to mention the skins are totally different! Conga = thick cow skin. Djembe = thinner goat skin. The shapes distinguish the tones also. It was over too soon!! :)
This is great. Thank you. I have both drums and never really understood the difference.
Outstanding performance
MUSICOS INCREIBLES!!Placer para mi oídos!!
The two players' skill are on different levels.
Much Gratitude for sharing this!
Djembe is KING
disagree congas are much more versatile,i play both.
Yes I love djembe.
I agree
They sound dope together
very unique and a different style of music. Amazing!
All Respect to Both.. But,.. lol =) The Djembe is where its at for me & I'm a Bongo player, so you would think i'd lean Conga, but nope. I'd take a Djembe in a circle any day =)
Of course you would the djembe is a drum circle drum the conga is not you have to work twice to be heard versus having a Djembe
They both have great sounds but I like the Djembe better. Great vodeo & very helpful.
Give me the American Drum, it sounds much deeper and soulful. I love that 808,
Yudah El The Conga is a Cuban drum
Andrés Valdés
Is Cuba not America?
Yudah El Anything from Alaska down to Argentina is part of the Americas.....but the conga drum should still be referred to as a Cuban drum to avoid confusion
i love how they just look about to start laughing constantly. pure joy
This is a very sweet video, thanks for sharing it, you two rock
The conga drum of video is Cuban, because it has metal mechanism for tuning the drum. African drummers visit Cuba to study Cuban rhythms.
THE CONGA IS FROM KONGO KINGDOM, NOT THE CUBAN , GO TO THE HISTORY PLEASE
@@pikiopikio2550 Conga is 100% afro-cuban from Cuba, 0% from Kongo
Metal or not no change the history, you can contact the black cuban of matanzas . NOT from the spanish the conga please for my eanglish.
THE METAL CAN NOT CHANGE THE HISTORY OF AFRICA. AFRO-CUBAN ARE FROM AFRICA NOT MADRID OR BARCELLONA. NO FORGET YOUR SPANISH ORIGIN . NO THE CONGA IN MADRID OR BARCELLONA IN THE HISTORY, BUT THE KONGO KINGDOM.
@@opus88888 AFRO IS AFRICA NO THE SPANISH OR MADRID OR BARCELLANA. YOU FROM EUROPE . AFRO FROM AFRICA, THIS IS SIMPLE. YOU CAN GO IN THE MUSEUM OF CUBA , THE CONGA IS VERY BLACK. THE METAL NO CHANGE THE ORIGIN OF THE CONGA DRUM
one of my favorites
"Woow i hope everybody caught that" 😄👌
Different sounds, both interesting though...
Wow I love these instruments..am going to have one soon ..
Oh man, I want a Djembe. Guitar Center has some affordable ones. I just hope my apartment neighbors won't be annoyed too much hehe. I'm already pushing it with a Boss Katana.
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I'm learn so pls help mi
Nice time for me to go practice 🙏🏾🥁🙏🏾🙊🙉🙈🦈
I like the sound of them togther. Perhaps because I have had hearing damage, is that the djembe sounds very good to me.
This vid makes you smile :)
Wonderful learning experience, thank you
you see these guys and you know some serious percussion is about to happen.
Thanks for video my teaching bait does not sound anything like that one needs Mega tuning
Yo no se, pero a eso que le esta llamando "Conga" en mi pais le decimos "Tumbadora"
There was another instruments from the traditional history I wonder if you guys are aware of it some where in the beginning of 19 century
To the extent of my knowledge, all percussion is derived from Africa, however the Conga, at least as I know it, originated on my Cuban homeland.
Not quite. Many of the percussion styles and Instruments used today have a basis in African origin, true, but every culture developed their own sounds independently; a lot of this maybe due to the fact that the African continent developed a great many instruments and sounds many of which are quite similar to those from other lands. That being said, any percussionists worth their weight in salt will pay attention to Africa's contribution as it is a big one.
bromixsr so.... to acknowledge the Cuban instrument,should not be to diminish the African origins. no reason to pit one against the other,that's just stupid.
Nevertheless, a great part of your people has african ancestors due to slavery, just like here in Brasil. Don't be so proud.
"Aquele que não esquece seus ancestrais não será esquecido por sua prole." - Provérbio africano -
if you don't honor and respect the human beings who brought their drums, language, spiritual practices, and culinary/medicinal/architectural/artistic/ knowledge here to the americas in chains, you have no business listening to these drums.
No. The Conga originated in our African homeland. Thats why its called Conga(it originated in the *Congo region of Africa specifically near what is called the Congo-River-Basin). As I said above, Congolese Africana that were imported to Cuba brought their culture with them(religion/dance/percussion/foods/intstruments etc). The Ngoma drum was brought to Cuba and they renamed the Ngoma as, "Conga" to solidify the African origin as a homage for future generations. Its like marking a trail so that your children can find their way back home. This isn't hard to understand but racism gets in the way and there are a lot of people in Latin America who hate acknowledging the African origins of Afro-Latin culture.
Two dudes hanging out. Love it.
Yes i can! Thank you.
Made me smile! Excellent piece!
However conga is usually 2 congas slightly different sizes like 2 inches apart in difference
Both drums are awesome!!!!!
Beautiful sounds.
Yay they are very sounding good!🦖
this is wonderful tutorial
amazing video, thank you guys!!! appreciate!
Divine!! Realy nice it sound super congratulations
Super dope video! Thank you.
I love the djembe
Sensational man, grrooovy sounds!
I love the conga sound
Even as kidnapped enslaved captives, we still created all of modern music(the bango and Blue grass music were invented by plantation enslaved Blacks. And Mozart and Beethoven were mixed with Black Blood..