Which is easier to learn for cajon or african drums | GECKO

Which is easier to learn, the cajon drum or the African drum?Let's learn more about it with gecko cajon.

Advantages of both the cajon drum and the African drum:

Eliminate tedious, easy to carry, simplified music, more casual and free, can replace the role of jazz drum in some cases.

African drums and cajon drums are played in a similar way, but there are differences. This is due to the material and location of the drums, the sound principle and their own structure.

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Differences between cajon Drum and African Drum:

There are also differences in striking position and striking position, so there are differences in hand dexterity.

African drums have a smaller retractable range of hands and are more flexible to hit.The identification of the three sound areas is also very obvious, which can reflect the fricative point, sound system (syncopation) and other very subtle skills.This requires students to pay more attention to detail.

But at the same time, African drums are louder.Especially in the indoor sound field effect obvious place, need to master the strength.Otherwise, when cooperating with each other, a careless will cover up other instruments, easy to dominate the guest.In addition, African drums have shoulder straps and can be played on the move.

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The cajon drum is more compact in timbre, but many of the small techniques of African drums are not available on the kahone drum, and it can only be played sitting up, not moving.

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