The art of playing and improvising around these rhythms is to be able to respect this structure while soloing around them. However, Middle Eastern rhythms have their own specific “dum” and “tac” structures. Like Western beats, Middle Eastern rhythms are very grounded and put the “dum” sounds firmly on the beat. This track runs through a typical structure for working with a belly dancer, including solo phrases over the maqsum rhythm at the end of the track.
The backing track is one Simon recorded a few years as for an audio track with darbouka (aka tabla) as the solo drum. To listen to some of these rhythms in action click here for the “Haleshla” album.Īgain, there are separate videos of both darbouka and bongos takes. To put things into perspective I would like to quote the guitarist Justin Adams when talking about how the Moroccan people feel such complex rhythms and what the equivalent in a Western society would be, ” It’s as if English people all suddenly started playing high level sudoku, all of them as a nation”. So you have a spicy, syncopated, up-in-the-air rhythmic structure that you are supposed to feel like a grounded, juggernaut of a rhythm. This completely reverses the feel of the rhythm and takes a lot of getting used to.īut, the killer point is that the Moroccans feel these rhythms as if everything is on the beat. Single color, double color and swoop KNOW THE MOVES TO WIN - swoop, swerve and hover to repeat the colors and follow the moves to win. In fact, a lot of time there are NO hits, kick or snare on the beat, all on them are up in the air. SIMON AIR GAME a fun table-top game that recognizes when a player follows the color / light sequence by sensing their motions MASTER THE MOVES watch, remember and repeat patterns. The kick is off-beat or syncopated/ “up in the air” as are the snare drum hits. As a result, these rhythms are grounded and have an obvious starting and finishing point. The snare drum or higher pitched “tac” hits are also on the beat and alternate nicely with the kick drum. In Western rhythms we mainly put the kick/ bass drum or “dum” sound on the beat and at the beginning and middle of the rhythmic cycle (think practically any rock/pop/ funk rhythm). He has primarily worked in the action genre, most notably as the director of the films Con Air (1997), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), The Mechanic (2011), and The Expendables 2 (2012). These beats appear simple but once you try to play them or understand them, you realise that things are not what they seem. Simon Alexander West (born 1961) is an English film director and producer. Many of Morocco’s rhythms are built around the ones on the videos or are simply variations of them. These rhythms are particular to a lot of North African counties and especially Morocco.
Video Theme 1: Moroccan 6/8 and 12/8 rhythms. The first one is that of Moroccan 6/8 and 12/8 rhythms. The drums for the Moroccan rhythm videos were recorded at Simon’s Tarboush Studios in Meknès, Morocco. The videos were recorded at Les Studios de la Filature, Périgueux, France. Simon has recorded some live darbouka and bongos video clips. You can watch these new videos by clicking on his drums and percussion playlist.
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