Drums and percussion music have African and Western culture for thousands of years presented, it is the foundation of communication and social structure in this region and the tradition of music as a means of record the social history so that it can be passed from generation to generation used. This article is a brief introduction to the nature of the excavations have uncovered evidence music.HistoryArchaeological of drumsticks drums and other percussion instruments in the region. Some of the rhythms played today were created hundreds of years (it is almost impossible to know exactly when) and it is clear that influences from these rhythms of nature. An ancient rhythm as "Kuku" clearly imitated the sound of a different drum instrumental bird.Types natural instruments such as the pods open hand as a percussion cow bell with a metal bar or ring, drums who have been with a skin of a wooden shell designed to vertical. The drums are the "meat" of music and, when played by a master can, surprisingly melodic. Shakers, bells and drums, add the "Spice", music and rhythm makes it a rich and powerful who has a profound effect on the overall effect of the drum there are many different types of drum in West African music, but the most important are, djembe, a hand cup usually goatskin drum, the bass played dunun barrel-shaped drum with cowhide each end of a stick, to give deep bass, and bougarabou, as the djembe, but larger and with a cow or antelope skin with a sound that has more of a modern conga.Influences MusicAnyone cultural study in other West African music has long would you say to hear the bass elements of West African drumming and other music in Latin percussion as the Samba played (especially when playing the congas), the Asian Indian drums (tabla) and also in modern pop music on an electronic drum set. La Clave 6 / 8 is an old foundation for the rhythms of many African countries and can be recognized, of course, in almost all forms of music worldwide. World Percussion undoubtedly influenced by his former masters origins.Of this kind of music, many of them do not know what was one of the signatures 6 / 8 or 4 / 4 time and time and the measure was ever produced in the traditional environment. But a pro "West", the drummer would be the complexity of the rhythms are surprised by a soloist alternating triplets effort focused black music of the drum.
