A beginner’s introduction to the cajon drum | GECKO

A wooden drum, or drum box, is a box-like wooden percussion instrument.The transliteration is Cajon drum (Spanish: Cajon, [KA KOMP XON]), which means wooden box or drawer in Spanish.When playing, beat the wooden front plate with hands to sound, the sound is similar to a jazz drum.Popular in Cuba, Peru and other places.Box drums are often used in Latin music such as Flamenco and rumba, and are also used as accompaniment in some folk music.

In recent years, box drums have gradually become popular all over the world, especially in some street music performance groups. Because they can play a sound similar to drum sets and are easier to carry and use than drum sets, they have become the learning and use of many percussion musicians in recent years.

So the Jaggo instrument supplier of the cahoon drum is going to tell you briefly how the beginner can play the cahoon drum.

The main way to play the box drum is to use both hands to beat the box drum at different positions to produce sound. Among them, fingers can be used to make rolling, friction can be used to make rotating, different parts of the palm or in a specific posture to make different sound effects.Even also can use the sole or prop (like foot pedal) wait to build different color.

In terms of performance posture, the most common method is to sit on the top of the drum, with both feet on both sides of the drum, and slightly tilt the drum forward to enhance the resonance of the drum.This is because the original box drum, the bottom of the board, so more contact with the ground, the resonance is also slightly weakened.At present, some new models of box drums are equipped with supporting gel at the bottom four corners, which greatly improves the resonance feeling.

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