(upbeat funk music)
(Kankugue rings)
- Hello, my name is Kofi Anang from Ghana, in West Africa.
You just heard me play an instrument from the Ewe people,
called Kankugue.
We are gonna begin with a hand-clapping,
but we are gonna use a table.
You can use a table, or your knee,
to play this rhythm that we going to play.
Now, I have a table here,
and all that you need to do is just be my echo.
So when I start, you can watch what I do,
and you just follow me.
So, this is a table
I go, clap, clap.
(hands banging)
Or clap, clap, knee, knee, knee.
So, just be my echo.
Clap, clap, knee, knee, knee.
Clap, clap, clap, knee, knee knee.
Clap, clap, clap, knee, knee, knee.
Clap, knee, knee, clap, knee, knee.
Knee, clap, clap, clap.
Knee, clap, clap, knee, knee, knee.
Clap, knee, clap, knee.
Clap, clap, knee, knee, knee.
So, that's how we're gonna continue
with what we're doing with our rhythm.
Now, we finished with the first part.
Now, what we're gonna do now is watch me very carefully.
We're gonna play another rhythm,
and the rhythm that we're gonna play
is we're gonna use the same knee and a clap.
Okay, so you go, knee, clap, clap, knee, knee, knee.
Knee, clap, clap, knee, knee, knee.
(hands patting and clapping)
Knee, knee, knee.
Clap, clap, knee, knee, knee.
Now, the next thing that we're gonna do
is I'm gonna show you how this rhythm that we just did
with the hand-clapping thing,
you can transform that into the drum.
And I'm gonna play a little short something,
but I want you to sing with me.
And I'll sing it, and then you repeat after me.
Pa Rah Boom Boom.
(Softly) Pa Rah Boom Boom.
Pa Rah Boom Boom.
(Softly) Pa Rah Boom Boom.
Now, this is what it sounds like on the drum
(drum beats)
Pa Rah Boom Boom.
(drum beats)
Pa Rah Boom Boom.
(drum beats)
Pa Rah Boom Boom.
(drum beats)
Pa Rah Boom Boom.
(drum beats)
Pa Rah Boom Boom.
(drum beats)
Pa Rah Boom Boom.
(drum beats)
Pa Rah Boom Boom.
Now, let's make it a little more fancy.
We're gonna go Pa Rah Boom Boom,
Pa Rah Pa Rah Boom Boom.
Pa Rah Boom Boom, Pa Rah Pa Rah Boom Boom.
(drum beats)
Pa Rah Pa Rah
Pa Rah (boom boom
Pa Rah Pa Rah (boom boom)
Pa Rah Boom Boom
Pa Rah Pa Rah Boom Boom
Pa Rah Boom Boom
Pa Rah Pa Rah Boom Boom
Pa Rah Boom Boom
And then when you go fast
Pa Rah Boom Boom
Pa Rah Pa Rah Boom Boom
Pa Rah Boom Boom
Pa Rah Pa Rah Boom Boom
(upbeat djembe drumming)
I'm really happy to be here,
to do this class with you
and I hope that you have enjoyed it
and I hope that you've learnt something, also, from it
and hope we can do it again.
Thank you very much.
(upbeat funk music)