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Key Terms polyrhythm Yoruba

African Drumming central to most West African traditional music came to Americas via slave trade influenced many styles including jazz

Yoruba Drumming Yoruba people of Togo, Benin, and Nigeria many religious and non-religious uses of drumming

Polyrhythms overlapped, contrasting rhythms one drum lays down a basic pulse other drums play variety of rhythms duplication of main rhythm more complicated and varied rhythms with extensive syncopation an entirely different pattern

“Ako” from the Egungun festival repertory played by virtuoso Yoruba drummers some clear polyrhythmic interactions

“talking drum” (mother drum) Iya ilu “talking drum” (mother drum)

Bata drums

Polyrhythms in “Ako” omele ako plays constant pulse eki plays recurring syncopated pattern iya ilu (mother drum) departs freely from main pulse throughout at one point plays 3 + 3 feeling of triple meter against 4 + 4

Omele ako

omele abo

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