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Choosing your conga: Wood vs fiberglass

Filed Under : About Conga,Buy by Staff

Nov.22,2011

Inside a wooden conga

Time to buy a conga set? One of the bigger choice to make is about the shell material… traditional wood or modern fiberglass congas?

Choosing a new conga set is exciting, but also overwhelming with all the options available.

For people new to congas, I recommend to check out two articles from our PercussionConga archive:

The first one is introducing the Conga Anatomy, to be sure you have the right terminology and understanding of all the components of a conga drum
The second one is about how to buy an used conga drum, that is always a good option to take into consideration

Whatever you’ll chose to go for a new or a used set, one of the big decisions to take is about the conga shell material: wood or fiberglass?

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How to buy a used percussion conga drum

Filed Under : About Conga,Beginners,Intermediate by Staff

Nov.9,2010

Very used conga (but still sounds good!)

How to buy an used percussion conga drum?

How to choose an used percussion conga set?

Where to buy used tumbadoras?

Let’s face it: buying a new conga set is not an easy decision also because of the cost of our beloved percussion drum!

For both beginners and experienced conga players, the option to buy an used set should be at least taken into consideration.

For a beginner, a good used conga is generally better than a cheap new one. And why not save some money on the drum and use it for a DVD, a book or even better some percussion lessons?

For the advanced and experienced conguero, saving some money, have the possibility to change conga set more or even owning different sets for different occasions can be appealing.

In this article you’ll find some tips that hopefully can help you buying a good used conga, knowing where to look at to asses the condition of the drum and avoid bad surprises!

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How to learn Conga Solo Improvisation – video lessons

Filed Under : Advanced,Intermediate by Staff

Jan.25,2010

Entering in the percussion conga World means learning a lot about techniques, timings, rhythms… but when this seems to be comfortable, the real challenge begins… soloing, or improvisation, the art of creativity that meets preparation.

I found these 5 (five!) video lessons by Heinrich Klingmann (http://heinrichklingmann.com/) very useful to start playing with combinations that allow to prepare a set of “bullets” ready to be shoot during your improvisations. It’s a whole 45 minutes video lesson, starting with simple “around the beat”repetition and growing up, everything clearly explained and shown in action! So, get focused and happy practicing!!

Continue reading to see Heinrich’s videos.

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Where to get conga lesson in Cuba?

Filed Under : About Conga,Advanced,Beginners,Intermediate by Staff

Jan.22,2010

Where to get conga lesson in Cuba?
Where to learn conga drum in Cuba?

One of our readers contacted us with a good question:

I’m looking for information regarding taking drumming lessons in Cuba.
Could you please recommend a facility or person in Cuba that would offer a week or two experience?

Here are our advices… just continue reading!

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LP Compact Conga Giovanni Hidalgo video review

Filed Under : About Conga,Beginners by Staff

Jan.12,2010

This is a video introduction for the percussion conga LP Compact Conga “Giovanni Hidalgo”.

These congas are quite unique as they don’t have a shell, so they are easy to transport and… compact, as the name says! LP Compact Congas are available in 11” Quinto (LP825) and 11 3/4” Conga (LP826), with replaceable plastic skin fully tunable with 9 (quinto) or 12 (conga) bolts that hold the skin on a very solid, metal rim.

A nice stand for compact congas and bongos is available from LP, but I personally found more reasonable to save some money for conga lessons and get myself standard, 40 bucks snare stands like this very solid one:

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I think they are the best congas for beginners for 3 reasons…

Keep on reading this article!

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