Dream Bootcamp, day 5 (friday)
Jul. 9th, 2013 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mekyriaNearing the end! Friday was better, I decided that I wanted to drum for our final dance performance instead of dancing. My big revelation this week is that I LOVE drumming. Perfectionist me loves how you can keep on meedling forever with the sounds, tempo and variations. Artistic me loves to feel the drum come alive underneath my hands, being hypnotized by the rhythm and lets not forget the potential for jamming sessions around the campfire. Dancer me tells me to stop swooning over the darbuka and get up and dance to the music.
It also helps that I can do some of the variations with extra teks in it, meaning that the bar was raised. Eep! Issam collected 'his band' from our group and we worked on playing the whole drum solo while the dancers polished the choreography. I can do a Saaidi with extra teks but I have to concentrate and I will fall out of the rhythm every now and then. Basic saaidi is:
Doum Tek -- Doum doum --- Tek
A doum is a low slap with the hand towards the center of the drum, a tek is a higher pitched slap near the rim. The more embellished version is:
Doum tek tek-e-tek doum doum tek-e-tek tek-e
You play 8 extra slaps in the same amount of time. Yes, my hands were sore. The downside is that I didn't get much dancing done in the last couple of days. The upside is that I got to drum some more. :-)
The evening activity was watching Project bellydance, season one with the group. Aziza interviewed me outside about DBC, some footage might appear as an extra on a dvd sometime. You will see me wearing Khalida's scarf and Meri's lipstick, as I was dressed rather conservative that night. We stayed a bit longer when most people left and the bartender pulled out a copy of the 'Just Dance!' game. It shows you a video of dancing figures and you have to copy it. We could not resist the temptation and did some pretty cheesy eighties songs together, much appreciated and enustomers (group of tango dancers who didn't dare to join in) and the crew (Two bartenders, who kept on suggesting new songs).
It also helps that I can do some of the variations with extra teks in it, meaning that the bar was raised. Eep! Issam collected 'his band' from our group and we worked on playing the whole drum solo while the dancers polished the choreography. I can do a Saaidi with extra teks but I have to concentrate and I will fall out of the rhythm every now and then. Basic saaidi is:
Doum Tek -- Doum doum --- Tek
A doum is a low slap with the hand towards the center of the drum, a tek is a higher pitched slap near the rim. The more embellished version is:
Doum tek tek-e-tek doum doum tek-e-tek tek-e
You play 8 extra slaps in the same amount of time. Yes, my hands were sore. The downside is that I didn't get much dancing done in the last couple of days. The upside is that I got to drum some more. :-)
The evening activity was watching Project bellydance, season one with the group. Aziza interviewed me outside about DBC, some footage might appear as an extra on a dvd sometime. You will see me wearing Khalida's scarf and Meri's lipstick, as I was dressed rather conservative that night. We stayed a bit longer when most people left and the bartender pulled out a copy of the 'Just Dance!' game. It shows you a video of dancing figures and you have to copy it. We could not resist the temptation and did some pretty cheesy eighties songs together, much appreciated and enustomers (group of tango dancers who didn't dare to join in) and the crew (Two bartenders, who kept on suggesting new songs).
