Practicing means for us playing, making music and having fun together. Notes, scores don't exist. You must learn everything by ear. Further, you must be able to play at both sides of the instument. (Imagine a piano or a violin, where the deep tones are on the right hand side...) A goal of this exercise is that Small Moussa Diabate (here 5 years old) learns different ostinati so firmly that he, in spite of the rhythmically free-flying solo and the capricious beat-changes of Big Moussa Diabate (my favourite nephew, by the way), can't be thrown out of the beat any more. The tuning of the Sambla balafon is something like C'-A-G-E-Eb-C. The Sambla, like the Tusia and the Siamou, use the balafon to communicate. I am going to release a CD with Sambla balafon music in the early 2008 - if I find a good distributor. Listen to the Audio
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