Finger Exercises and Daily Practices

Daily practice is a must to improve playing darbuka. Darbuka player needs to have open and flexible fingers in order to have different playing combinations on a darbuka. And this is possible with repetitive and frequent exercises. In this online course Hakan shows you how to warm up fingers, improve finger moves, set up daily practices, playing variety of exercises including pattern exercises, rolling exercises, groove exercises in a more than 1 hour duration.

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

• 4-6-8 Pattern Exercises with Grooves
• Finger Exercises
• Slide Exercises
• How to Play Kick Sound with Exercises
• Rolling Exercises – 4 Pattern, Single Stroke, Triplets, Long Tremolo
• 9/8 Groove Exercises
• Hakan’s Groove Practices and Ideas
• 8 Different Finger Exercises with Ornaments

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