CONGA SOLOING 101

A definitive guide FOR ALL LEVELS

15 VIDEOS

Now that you’ve had some time to work on developing your fundamentals and you’ve started build up your arsenal of grooves through our first three Conga Courses, its time to dive into one of the least covered and most complex topics when it comes to this instrument, how to take a conga solo!

Its all mapped out in this course from square one. With a focus on developing the strong foundation that every improviser needs, using our sound, ideas, and influences as a vehicle for self expression. All while relying on a few legendary conga solos rooted in the Afro-Cuban percussive tradition, to give us a solid and actionable framework for learning how SPEAK on our instrument.

In This Course We'll Work on:

• Building our rhythmic vocabulary from square one

• The essential quinto “lock” and how to use it to develop solo phrases

• Language based solo phrases and how to combine and expand on them

• Classic sixteenth note and triplet based conga chops

• Analyzing four iconic conga solos with full transcriptions

• Getting in the minds of our favorite soloists

• How to practice soloing and stay creative

• And SO MUCH more...

Let's get started!!!

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