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AFROPOP
PLAY-ALONG
FOR DRUMMERS
Copyright © 2014 by Maciek Schejbal
ISBN 978-0-615-99268-6
Music copyrights listed with each track
Text, drum charts, photography, layout and design by Maciek Schejbal
Lead sheets by Fernando Hernandez-Moros
Reference drums recorded by Greg Novick at
Chunky Karma Studio, North Plainfield, NJ
Special thanks to Maria Traversa, Francky Moulet,
Graham Hawthorne, Fred Doumbè, Leo Traversa, David Weiss,
Mark Manczuk, Bahar Behbahani, and Peter Allan
www.afropolka.com
Photographs by Maciek Schejbal taken at FENAC, National Culture and Arts Festival
Maroua, Cameroon, December 2008
Cover graphic by Andrzej Klimowski
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Contents
Introduction ..................... 1
How to Use this Book ..................... 2
Key to Drumset Notation ..................... 3
Eyoum (mangambeu) ..................... 4
Alea So (soukous) .................... 10
Joy (bikutsi) .................... 18
Ombwa Te (Afrobeat) .................... 28
To Ndje (makossa) .................... 36
Senga .................... 42
O Si Keka (reggae) .................... 47
Essimo (essewe) .................... 53
Mumi (African 6/8) .................... 56
About the Author .................... 62
About Kaïssa .................... 63
Track List .................... 64
Endorsements .................... 66
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Introduction
Aer teaching Afropop drumming classes at the Drummers Collective in Manhattan for a
number of years, I was asked to conduct a recording class where students were required to play
along music-minus-one recordings in a professional studio setting.
From the available school materials I assembled a number of tracks suitable for those exercises.
e music was mostly rock, funk, fusion, and jazz. I then had the idea to include in those classes
some of the World music I played around New York City. While working with the Cameroonian
singer Kaïssa, I produced and mixed her first album and had access to the masters. I wanted to
share them with my students and the idea of this play-along book was born.
e album was recorded with a click track, making it a perfect choice for play-along exercises. I
retained all the original tracks, only removing the drum parts. Since the drumming on Kaïssa’s
repertoire evolved into more African-oriented grooves from the time it was originally recorded,
I decided to include the charts of the most recent versions of my drumming played during live
shows. I also included recorded examples (reference tracks) of some of those recent versions of
the tracks, which are significantly different from the originals. Others are the originals and are
part of the album Looking ere. e album was self-released (also licensed by Sony Music South
Africa) in 2004. It is available online at CD Baby and at several digital merchants including
iTunes. I trust you will discover new things in both versions.
e tracks include a mix of some Cameroonian grooves like bikutsi, mangambeu, makossa, and
essewe as well as reggae and Afrobeat. Playing and developing various World music grooves has
been the best part of working with Kaïssa and mixing grooves based on the same rhythmic roots
has been keeping my interest in World music drumming alive through the years. I wanted to
share this interest with the students at all levels, and I think they might find jamming with these
tracks a great way to explore World music and expand their vocabulary on the drumset. Playing
your own grooves along with the songs might be surprisingly rewarding, so give it a try!
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How to Use this Book
Each song in this collection has a chapter in the book with performance tips, background info,
lead sheet, drum chart and related style examples (or various African music influences). ere
are two versions of each song, one with a click track and one without. You could practice the
songs with the click first, and eventually play them without the click, for example.
Reference tracks of some of the songs were added to this collection. Others, being closer to the
originals, can be found on Kaïssa’s album Looking ere.
Import the ‘No Click’ file to your session and add the click from your soware to be able to adjust
the click volume independently. Setup the session tempo exactly as indicated on the chart 1. e
click of the first two bars of the audio file should align with your session’s click. Now you are
ready to record.
e list of the tracks is on the last page of this book.
As always, have fun!
Best,
Maciek
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1 Adjustments to the ProTools sessions resulted in decimal points of some tracks’ tempos, set them upprecisely for accurate synchronization.
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snare drum
f
snare drum
cross-stick
h
snare drum
rim-shot
e
snare drum
ghost note
x
hi-hat
x
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hi-hat open
x
o
hi-hat open (for line's lenght)
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hi-hat ghost note
x
hi-hat foot
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bass drum
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tom 1
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tom 2
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tom 3
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tom 4
x
ride cymbal
x
crash 1 cymbal
x
crash 2 cymbal
x
splash cymbal
1
cowbell
Key
to
Drumset
Notation
(HANDS - STEMS UP, FEET - STEMS DOWN)
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Eyoum
Originally, this song was recorded without the drums but the intricate guitar parts are a perfect
match to play along one of the most interesting African grooves, mangambeu (this French spell-
ing is sometimes changed in English to mangambe). e mangambeu musical style comes from
the Bamileke people of Cameroon’s West Province. e rhythm was mastered, popularized, and
developed on the drumset by Brice Wassy, whose book Rhythms from Cameroon takes you deeper
into the subject.
One thing to mention is the way the rhythms of 6/8 or 12/8 are written and, more importantly,
felt. ough many people write the rhythms as 6/8 or 12/8, I prefer to write them in 4/4 with
triplet division. e 4/4 pulse, in my opinion, projects the feeling of forward motion better than
6/8 or 12/8 and that’s what I sense playing, listening, or moving to African music and watching
African dance. Nevertheless, developing awareness and ability to switch between 6/8 and 4/4
feelings is an additional tool in a vocabulary of a well-rounded drumset player.
In addition to the drum part written in the chart, I have some suggestions for preparatory exercis-
es allowing you to hear the triplet subdivisions that are the basis of mangambeu. As a bonus, your
jazz playing will improve as your sense of triplet becomes more solid and the forward motion
more fluent.
I found this first exercise helpful when preparing for gigs with Kaïssa. Alternating between
four-on-the-floor and mangambeu kick of this two-bar loop should center your triplet sense and
lock the groove. Repeat the exercise many times using a metronome with triplet subdivision (feel
free to start the snare part from bar 2, the starting point is as flexible as in Afro-Cuban clave).
Written by Patrice Bihina and Kaïssa Doumbè
Love Lina Music, ASCAP / Mon Bebe Music, ASCAP
Kaïssa - lead and backing voices
Maciek Schejbal - drums
Henri Tanash - guitars
Fred Doumbè - percussion, percussion programming, backing voice
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Also, at first, do not accent the second note of each triplet as in the chart. is can throw you off
before mastering the mechanics of every drum part (next exercise will deal with this issue):
Before adding the accent, you’d need to internalize it; otherwise you are prone to turning the beat
around and making it a shuffle groove. Here’s an exercise that will force you to hear the second
eight-note triplet of each beat:
Another issue is the mangambeu fills. What adds spice to them is a slight dragging of tempo but
before you do that, play them very tight, as written. I found these fills to sound great played with
one, leading, hand, though aer a while of dealing with this music you might find that changing
the sticking might suit your own sound better.
Here’s the most typical mangambeu drum fill you might like to build on. You can play the fills
without bass drum or replace the written bass drum pattern with the same one as in the previous
exercise:
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x x ‰3 3 3 3
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Mangambeu examples:
• Nouteussi from the album Dance Around The Fire by Jack Djeyim, drums by Brice Wassy
• Wamba from the album Soro by Salif Keita, drums by Brice Wassy
• Eyando from the album Scenes From My Life by Richard Bona, drums by Mokhtar Samba
• Gwarir from the album Ifrikya by Karim Ziad, drums by Karim Ziad
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Eyoum Patrice Bihina / Kaissa DoumbeLead Sheet
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© Love Lina Music, ASCAP / Mon Bebe Music, ASCAP
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