Intermediate/Advanced Players (Bundle)

Teacher Hakan Kaya
Categories Learn Darbuka
Students 94 (Registered)
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This intense online course with more than 2.5 hours duration is designed for intermediate to advanced level players to take them into the next level on their darbuka playing skills and technique. The course package covers extensive exercises and practices, ideas on how to create groove solo, the most popular rhythms and it is enriched with Hakan Kaya’s compositions, grooves and independent ideas. The course consists of 9 bundled lessons with 55 videos where each of them offers distilled methods, exercises and techniques from Hakan Kaya’s more than 20 years of darbuka playing experience. Throughout the lessons you will be guided with a classroom approach having “instructor-to-student” conversations, questions & answers and on-screen notations. Also you will be guided with solo playing of Hakan Kaya showing his technique with close up shots and slow motion scenes.

Lessons are led by Hakan Kaya and cover the below topics.

Multiple Pattern Exercises
2/4 Grooves and Ornaments
How To Create Groove Solos on 2/4, 4/4 Time
Rolling Ideas, Tremolo Variations
Hakan’s Grooves and Independent Ideas
The most popular rhythms including 9/8, Semai, Baladi, Maksum, Indian Rhythms, Malfuf, Wahte, Çiftetelli

Bundle:

Intermediate/Advanced Players Level 1 + Intermediate/Advanced Players Level 2

You can watch the first lesson, the introduction, for free!

Curriculum

9 Sections
56 Lessons
Lifetime

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Section 1 - Pattern Exercises
8
Section 2 - 2-4 Groove and Ornament
4
Section 3 - How to Create 4-4 and 2-4 Groove Solo
6
Section 4 - Rolling-Tremolo
7
Section 5 - Hakan's Groove and Independent Ideas
5
Section 6 - 9-8 Rhythms
5
Section 7 - Finger Exercises and Daily Practices
9
Section 8 - Popular Rhythms
8
Section 9 - Hakan's Composition
4

Instructor

Hakan Kaya

Born into a musician family in Istanbul, Hakan Kaya began his musical journey at an early age within the rich rhythm traditions of Anatolian folk music. He received his first percussion training from İzzet Kızıl and Şenol Cümbüşlü, and at the age of 16 studied Indian rhythms and Tabla in Varanasi, India. For many years, Hakan Kaya has performed with leading musicians and taught Darbuka, Riq, Frame Drum, and Def to students from around the world. In 2013, he became the first Turkish percussionist to release an instructional darbuka DVD. Today, his teaching blends tradition, technique, and musical expression, shaped by over 25 years of playing and teaching experience.