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The purpose of this site is to provide individuals interested in world music with a comprehensive resource and thereby to preserve the historical ethnic authenticity of the cultures that have produced the music.

Select a rhythm from the index to the left and you will be directed to a page devoted to that particular rhythm. Each of these lessons includes historical background, video instruction by master drummer Hafiz Shabazz on how to play the rhythm, and audio recordings of Dartmouth’s World Music Percussion Ensemble performing the rhythm.

THE PROJECT

This site is a collaboration between master drummer and Dartmouth College professor Hafiz Shabazz and his student Pete Mathias, percussionist and member of Dartmouth's class of 2009

"Touch Tone Percussion" is a concept developed by Hafiz Shabazz.

Hafiz Shabazz is a master drummer, ethnomusicologists, percussionist, performer, and lecturer. Professor Shabazz has studied at the University of Ghana and The Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He has also studied in Cuba with master drummers and folklorists and has performed with Max Roach, Lionel Hampton, and Julius Hemphill in addition to Alhaji Bia Konte, Master Cora and Griot of Gambia, West Africa. He has toured in France, the Carribean, the United States, and Canada. He has shared his knowledge and experience, teaching students at the University of California at Berkley and at Duke University and currently at Dartmouth College.

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