Join: Nov 18, 2008

Name: bongodoggie

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Location: US

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I play standard drumset in blues, funk, rock, and R&B bands and work on my indigenous roots style kit with several artists. My blues band is The Summit Underground, and we play extensively in the NW United States. On the Indigenous Roots Kit I have toured with National Award winning Native American flute artist Looking Wolf, who just won 'Best Flutist' at the NAMMYs. I have also gigged with Native American spoken word artist Loredo, blues vocalist Marci Curtis, hot young bluesman Ty Curtis, and rap poet '6KILLA'. You can learn more about these unique artists on google.I also have a myspace page; myspace.com/bongodoggie and it has photos of me, my drums, and our gig calendar. My email address is bongodoggie@aol.com. Feel free to contact me.ABOUT THE INDIGENOUS ROOTS DRUM KITThis kit is my invention and I have put a lot of time and thought into the details.On top are two Toca plastic didgeridoos on a homemade rack. There is a little sponge mounted on the side of one didge so I can wet a finger to do the slide sound on the conga without breaking the circular breathing. The conga drums are either Gon Bops, or Skin on Skin, or Volcanos, depending on which video you are watching. They have seed pods and nut shell rattles suspended off them on plastic coat hangers, plus a doggie squeeky toy.Below is a 14" djun djun with double pedal, laid on a rolled blanket. The beaters hit it high off-center but it doesn't matter, the drum sounds good.On the right is a pedal with horizontally mounted cow bell. The mount is my invention and it has a closer throw than the verticle mounted ones, which give better control of volume and articulation.To the left is a pedal with a Nigerian log drum, and next to it is a pedal with goat toenail shakers, another invention of mine. Both have reverse style beaters for horizontal action. Both pedals are articulate and can be played with dynamics. So there is a total of 5 pedals, all of them DW 5000 series.

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Samba on Primitive Drum Kit

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Adaption of Samba to my Indigenous Roots Drum Kit. Left foot plays an Airto samba pattern on Nigerian log drum, right foot plays the Surdo part on djun djun. Hands do a little thing on conga and suspended seed pod and nut shell shakers.

Bossa Nova on Primitive Drum Kit

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Tags: bossa  Brazilian  clave  conga  djun  Drum  foot  independence  Indigenous  Kit  left  log  nova  Pettit  Primitive  Robert  Roots  samba 

Left foot bossa nova pattern on Nigerian hollow log, right foot surdo part on djun djun, little thing on conga. I'm just learning to apply Brazilian rhythms to my Indigenous Roots Kit.

BosaNoNo

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Slower bossa nova based ryhthm with variations that work the phase, played on the Indigenous Roots Kit.

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