[Deborah Franzblau]

Djembe 1 sounds more like 12/8 than 4/4 to me: I hear it as t|ss.|s.t|s.B|s.(t)|(ss.)
with the first t as an upbeat.
Djembe 3 is written as 12/8, but I think it’s played like a hemiola (1,2&,3; 1,2&,3),
or |B.|tt|s.|B.|tt|s.|
Djembe 1 is hard to learn from the video, it would help to add a section
with the rhythm broken into smaller chunks.
It would be nice to write down the musicians associated with each Djembe part in the first paragraph.

[Deborah Franzblau]

In the djembe comps, there’s a version 1, but no version 2 (??)
The rhythm reference video for the djembe comps seem to have added notes (compared to the lesson):
I think the break and comp 1 have an extra T on beat 2.
To me, comp 2 sounds like |TT.S|S.SB|TTTS|B.S.| (3 extra slaps)
And comp 3 sounds like |TT.S|S..B|TTB.|….| (2 extra slaps).

[Deborah Franzblau]

It would be nice to re-record this djembe lesson and reference versions:
the drum is so “ring-y” it’s hard to hear the patterns.

[Deborah Franzblau]

The time signature says 6/8, but the comps are really in 9/8.
(And Fara counts off the last comp in 4/4!)
The break sounds more like 3/4 to me: |[tt][tt] t .|t . . t |. . . .|

[Deborah Franzblau]

The djembe 1 & 2 parts feel to me like they divide the measures differently.
As a 12/8 pattern, djembe 2 feels like 4 triplets, or 4 groups of 3 8th’s.
But djembe 2 feels more like 6 groups of 2 (or 3 groups of 4). –Deb F

[Deborah Franzblau]

Re: playing from the notation.
Each measure (4 notes) has 12 pulses.
To make sense of the notation for the break and comp 1, I need to
feel it as 1-and 2-and 3-and, 1-and-ah 2-and-ah;
or 12 34 56, 123 456. So I’m breaking each set of 6 pulses two different ways:
3 groups of 2, then 2 groups of 3.
(For comp 2 and 3, it does work to just think of the 4 notes as 4 groups of 3.)

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