Customer Reviews

Mel Bay's Fun With Bongos Book/CD Set

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An great simple book for those people aspiring to become a "bongocero". It provides information on tuning, musical drum notation, basic bongo techniques and rhythms. It should keep you busy until you are ready to move onto the next intermediate book of the bongo series, "The Bongo Book" by Trevor Salloum.

It's a great book for real beginners, where you ca learn to read music and very easy exercises to star with. But, you will need another book to be able to play rithms. The other books starts where this one finishes.

It's a solid introduction to the bongos and worth the few dollars that I paid. If you don't have anyone knowledgeable guiding your bongos purchase than you're better off buying this first to help you make the best decision.

However:

The book is tri-lingual (English, Spanish, Portuguese) and there's not 33 pages of information but more like 20.

Trevor Salloum also wrote "The Bongo Book" which has more advanced information and everything in this book except for the buying recommendations and a few other minor items. I recommend buying it instead.

This play along book is very easy to use. It has a lot of cool beats for the bongo, and I have been practicing them on my bongo drums and I am getting better.

Book & CD set was perfect for the set of Bongo Drums I ordered for my grandaughter< Just in time for Christmas, quick service, protective packaging, excellent condition.