Edition: Paperback Book and CD Package

Description: 68 Pages

The rhythms and bass lines of Bikutsi, Mbala, Mangambeu, Ekang, Ashiko, Makossa, Tchamassi, and Makassi are notated here as one could hear them played throughout Cameroon and other regions of Africa. Discover many different ways of hearing and feeling each rhythm and open new doors for your creativity, regardless which style of music you are playing.

There are so many great patterns in this book! I have never seen or heard most of them! Marvelous! (Jim Chapin)

A book is to bring into the realm of knowing what you do not already know. This is a journey into what we have yet to know. (Jack DeJohnette)

Christian shows us to the roots. (Roy Haynes)