kucherman rithims

8/17/2019 kucherman rithims

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/kucherman-rithims 1/7

The Riq

PositionHolding the Riq is a little tricky in the beginning. You open your left hand and

place the instrument between your thumb and index nger. The thumb is

placed on the back of one jingle pair and the index nger holds the drum atthe edge of the skin. t is not a question of force but of balance. !hen you

play" tilt the drum a little away from yourself to keep the jingles as quiet as

possible.

Doum#or the bass sound you use your right index nger and hit the skin at the

side so that $%& of the nger hit the skin.

Tak This stroke is done with the ring nger. You hit the skin at the 'ery edge of

the drumhead.

Pa

This is what we know from other drums as slap. You hit the skin with all fourngertips in the midle of the drum.



the jingles The jingles are mostly played with the left and right ringngers.

t is also possible to produce a lot of di(erent sounds by using di(erent

techniques of shaking and you can play di(erent rolls using more ngers"

most commonly the right index)" middle) and ringnger.

The Riq * soft position

This position is used to play more softly than in the standard position. #or

holding the instrument you form a +,- with both hands and place the

instruments between the thumbs and index ngers of both hands without

grapping.

Doum The bass stroke is done with the right ringnger. The mo'ement comes

mostly from the wrist and the nger bounces o( immediately.



Tak This one is a little tricky. n this position +Tak- is not an open sound" but

closed. To make the sound closed" you put both index ngers on the skin

and press just a little bit while your ring ngers play on the edge of the skin.

The dicult part is to close the +Tak- sounds" but lift your index ngers for

the bass sound.

http/%%worldpercussion.net%lessons%riq%strokes%



RIQ-notations

Below you see the middle-eastern rhythm Malfuf. Its rhythmical subdivision is 3-3-2.

You find this pattern in different music cultures all over the world. For the start play just

the accents

!here are different ways to use the jin"les and fill up the rhythm. For e#ample you can

add a note before every ta$.

or play the jin"les continously between the accents

%hen you lift your left thumb from the jin"le while playin"& you "et another jin"lesound. 'ow two pairs of jin"les sound at the same time& soundin" more open and

rin"in". In the second e#ample the last accent is substituted by a stro$e on the jin"les& so

that the last four notes you play are open jin"les.

You can put the open jin"le sound to many different places inside the rhythm. (ust

e#periment.

If you add a second pattern& you have another middle-eastern rhythm called )hiftetelli.



'ow use the jin"les to fill it up

*part from playin" the jin"les directly with the fin"ers& you can sha$e the instrument

bac$ and forth to "et another sound. You tilt the instrument bac$wards after a ri"ht hand

stro$e and forward on the ne#t +,th. !here are different places where you can put this

movement inside the Malfuf rhythm. You can hit the drum a"ain with your ri"ht hand

to"ether with the forward motion li$e in the ne#t e#ample& or wait until the ne#t +,th

li$e in the two followin" ones.

!he ne#t pattern is a combination of the last three



!he same techniue now applied to the chiftetelli rhythm

'ow lets have a loo$ at the soft position. !he tric$y part are the inde# fin"ers. You

have to press them on the s$in for the ta$s& but lift them to "et the open bass sound. First

some e#ercises to "et a feel for the movements

!he ne#t 2/0 rhythm is called 1aratchi

*nd now bac$ to the )hiftetelli. In the soft position you can play it li$e this in the

second e#ample two pic$up notes are added



!hese are some e#amples to play rhythms in different ways. 4f course there are many

more. !ry around with the different jin"le sounds. *lso you can substitute the 5ta$s6

with slaps or with bass sounds. !he possibilities are endless.

http/%%worldpercussion.net%lessons%riq%notations%

kucherman rithims

Documents