Let's examine two drums with very interlinked backgrounds: the bongos and the djembes. Both drums are of African ancestry but also diverge in many aspects. What are the differences between bongos...
Category: Bongo Drums
In this present drums comparison, we'll be looking at two drums that appear similar on the surface but that, upon further examination, are heavily distinct from one another: The bongos and the...
Beyond the confines of a standard drum kit, you'll find other popular drums that, despite their strong ethnic connection to Africa, have been utilized in more mainstream contexts quite frequently....
Afro-Cuban percussion instruments are highly assorted and owe their existence mainly to the influx of enslaved Africans brought into Cuba during the 16th and 17th centuries. Two of the most...
Drums are some of the oldest musical instruments in the percussion family, if not the oldest instruments in general. However, nowadays, a great variety of drums appear to have no connection to each...
The bongo drums are a fairly popular Afro-Cuban percussion instrument, mainly used in son cubano and salsa ensembles, though also present in jazz, pop, and Latin musical...