Product Profile
Doumbek Delight Book
List Price: $32.90
Item Code: LDDD
Weight: 1.00LB
Brands: Mary Ellen Donald
Stock: 3
Categories: Doumbek Instruction
Country of Origin: USA
UPC: 844731018770
Image Date: Monday, July 11, 2005
Additional Information: Mary Ellen Donald Teaches hold to hold the Doumbek, and some basic techniques on YouTube. .

See Mary Ellen's expert zill work on You Tube. You will learn a great deal from her instructional materials.

Description

This book provides a 30 Lesson Course in Middle Eastern Drumming, with Basic Music Theory. Spiral bound, 8 1/2 by 11 inches, 111 pages, beautifully illustrated. By Mary Ellen Donald. (1976)

Includes:
Basic music theory.
Simple and fancy drum techniques.
Middle Eastern rhythms.
Guidelines for creating rhythmical variations.
Tips for accompanying belly dancers, and practice suggestions.

Companion CD's sold separately.

Mary Ellen Donald has been involved in Middle Eastern music as a dance student and a musician since the late 1960's. She is known by many as the "Guru of finger cymbal playing." Mary Ellen studied dance with Jamila Salimpour, drum and tambourine with Vince Delgado, Tony Lammam, and various Arab drummers. She has written, produced and published several books and tapes on Middle Eastern music. Since the 1970's she has performed in numerous concerts, on albums including Magda Helmy, Gallal Kutub, Yusel Mostafa, and Light Rain, and on the soundtrack ABC-TV series, the Young Indiana Jones. Mary Ellen continues to be in high demand as a musician, teacher, and organizer of events. Her youthful vitality and highly developed sensitivity to music may be partially attributed to her being legally blind. Excerpt from The Caravan, Vol. 13, #6, May/June 1997