Compose, play and share West African drum rhythms on your iPhone and iPad
Djembe Notes is a West African drum rhythm editor, player and library that helps you practice drumming.
It includes a library of 8 traditional rhythms presented in simple notation.
Djembe notes lets you:
• Easily add new rhythms to your rhythm library
• Include parts for djembe, kenkeni, sangban, dununba and three different bells
• Play a rhythm ensemble of parts or a part at a time
• Practice at a comfortable tempo
• Keep in time with the visual metronome
• View a clean musical score by hiding controls
• Share rhythm notation as PDF files
• Share playable rhythm files
Master Drummer Mamady Keïta introduced this notation in his book
“A Life for the Djembe - Traditional Rhythms of the Malinke” and used it in his iBook “Nankama”.
It represents the West African drum rhythms in an intuitive and easily editable form.