{"id":263,"date":"2011-07-15T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/15\/todd-methods-bongo-bea\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T17:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T17:56:25","slug":"todd-methods-bongo-bea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/15\/todd-methods-bongo-bea\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd&#39;s methods: bongo beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an easy system I developed for playing a generic Latin feel very bright tempos:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-sEXTXP9l428\/Th_NV8aJrxI\/AAAAAAAAAkM\/9Wdoo5AZT3A\/s1600\/Finale+2008+-+%255Bbongo-beat%255D.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Finale-2008-%5Bbongo-beat%5D.jpg\" width=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A few notes there weren&#8217;t room for on the pdf:<br \/>&#8211; Can be played very fast and very light.<br \/>&#8211; Also combine exercise measures to make two measure phrases.<br \/>&#8211; Pay attention to the sound of your rim clicks and rim shots. <br \/>&#8211; When applying the floor tom variation, play the FT on the &amp; of two of the second measure.<br \/>&#8211; Also play right hand part on cymbal or bell. <br \/>&#8211; Improvise your own variations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxdrummer.com\/downloads\/lessons_downloads\/drumset\/pdxdrummer.com_bongo-beat.pdf\">Get the pdf.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an easy system I developed for playing a generic Latin feel very bright tempos: A few notes there weren&#8217;t room for on the pdf:&#8211; Can be played&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[496,502],"tags":[14,23,54,79,69,47,138],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","category-using-syncopation","tag-downloads","tag-drums","tag-exercises","tag-latin","tag-reed-lesson-4","tag-syncopation","tag-todds-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}