Cajon Online Classes
Cajon Lessons
Cajon Drum Lessons – An Introduction to Percussion Music
The cajón is a percussion instrument that traces its origin back to Latin American music and culture. The box-shaped drum is renowned for its versatile musical styles and rhythms, adding a rich and diverse palette of sound for different genres, like jazz, flamenco, and others. Percussion instruments are ideal for nurturing your knowledge about tempo and rhythms, and the cajon is the right one to start your musical journey. Get cajon lessons online to dive deep dive into the world of beats, rhythms, and more.
Why Choose BMusician for Online Cajon Lessons
The Cajon instrument often finds itself as an integral part of contemporary musical ensembles because of its rhythmic dynamism and expressiveness. Typically made of wood, the instrument is played by sitting on it and striking different parts of the surface with hands, fingers or mallets. Being a portable and versatile instrument, the cajon is the most preferred percussion instrument across different musical styles worldwide. However, the simple instrument has 400 specific rhythms to master, with numerous signatures. Our comprehensive and interactive step-by-step cajon online course will help you to learn the basics, like beating techniques, rhythms, and grooves. With one-on-one sessions, class recordings, assignments, and course modules, you can learn cajon at your own pace. Each session is supervised by prominent cajon instrument players hailing from strong musical backgrounds. You will get expert guidance and continuous learning support to elevate your knowledge and skills of playing cajon solo or in a group.
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Overview
This course will provide a great head start to Latin American Percussion and Cajon Playing Techniques. This well-structured course consists of 4 modules that educates students about the fundamentals of percussion, training in basic time signatures, 12 basic Cajon fingering patterns and basic polyrhythms. On completion, students will have a good understanding of the Latin American percussion system and will be ready to play the basic lessons on the Cajon.Prerequisites
Students who are New to music, New to Latin American Percussion, New to Cajon, People who have had training in other forms of percussion music but new Cajon.Syllabus
- Introduction to African Percussion and Tribal SoundsDifficulty: EasyDuration: 10 hours
A brief introduction to African music, Fundamentals, Styles and Techniques. - Basic Fingering PatternsDifficulty: MediumDuration: 12 hours
First 12 major fingering patterns involving both hands and their implementation in basic time signatures. - Basic time signaturesDifficulty: EasyDuration: 15 hours
Introduction to how time signatures work, calculations and exercises in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 2/2, 3/2, 4/3, 3/8 time signatures. - Introduction to Polyrhythms.Difficulty: EasyDuration: 10 hours
Polyrhythms are formed when two or more different meters are played at the same time and at the same linear tempo. This module involves basic lessons and exercises in polyrhythms.
Overview
In this course, students will be trained in Rhythm reading, advanced time signatures, advanced Cajon fingering patterns, ways to implement the fingering patterns in different time signatures and implementation of fingering patterns in Polyrhythms. On completion of this course, students would have achieved a good control over the instrument, ready to play a simple solo or accompany simple songs on Cajon.Prerequisites
Students who have learnt fundamentals of Cajon and above.Syllabus
- Introduction to rhythm readingDifficulty: EasyDuration: 2 hours
Rhythm reading theory and exercises. - Advanced Fingering PatternsDifficulty: EasyDuration: 12 hours
Exercises in 12 advanced fingering patterns involving both hands and thier implementation in all time signatures. - Advanced time signaturesDifficulty: EasyDuration: 10 hours
Introduction and Training all time signatures (3,4,5,7 and 9) and implementation of all 24 patterns in all time signatures. - Implementation of fingering patterns in polyrhythmsDifficulty: EasyDuration: 12 hours
Introduction to advanced polyrhythms and exercises to implement all 24 patterns in advanced polyrhythms.
Overview
This course helps the students master in Cajon by incorporating techniques from different genres of percussion like Konnakol from Indian Percussion, Song accompaniment techniques from Western percussion and so on. This course also involves a training on how to play as a part of a band and in musical concerts of different genres. On completion, students would have a complete knowledge about the Percussion art and would have achieved a great control over the instrument.Prerequisites
Students who have learnt Intermediate level Cajon and above.Syllabus
- Advanced TheoryDifficulty: EasyDuration: 1 hours
An introduction to advanced level concepts that are mandatory to understand before going into the course. - Solo and Accompaniment techniquesDifficulty: EasyDuration: 15 hours
Lessons that focuses on understanding world music, techniques to accompany different styles of african music and other musical genres, solo perfomance techniques. - Mastering Djembe through KonnakolDifficulty: EasyDuration: 15 hours
Konnokol is the art of performing percussion syllables vocally in south indian music. In the following lessons, we are going to master in our instrument by understanding Indian Percussion System and by using Konnakol as a tool. - Concert and Band Performance TrainingDifficulty: EasyDuration: 10 hours
Lessons that focus on polishing the skills learnt throughout the course, techniques to play with other percussion instruments like Drums or Mridangam. Training to improve on stage presentation skills to perform better as a part of a band and in music concerts.
How to Learn Mridangam Online – Course Curriculums
Our mridangam lessons are divided into four levels depending on the student's level of understanding and proficiency. They are fine-tuned with the fundamentals of the instrument and the technical knowledge of comprehension and absorption of the Carnatic rhythms. Start from the basics and dive deeper into the world of percussion instruments; join our mridangam classes online.
Our Gurus
Our faculty members are more than just mere trainers. With their abundance of knowledge and experience, they act as a beam of light, nurturing young talents in their musical journeys through personalized music lessons online.
Frequently Asked Questions
The system has an in-built video call classroom that works on the all major browsers. All you need is a laptop/desktop with camera and microphone attached and any one of the above mentioned browsers installed.
If you wish you take the classes on your phone, you can use the Bmusician app. Bmusician App is available both on Android and iOS.
There are basically two ways to get started with the classes. Live 1-to-1 or a Shared Slot. In case of LIVE 1-to-1, you can click the Enrol button below, tell us your time preferences i.e. when you will be free to take up the classes. We will allocate you a Teacher and Timeslot based on your preferences.
For Shared slots, you can click on the Teachers tab above, click the instructor you are interested in and select a timeslot that suits you and complete enrollment.
