Cajon School "Cajon dla każdego" P. Ostrowski

CAJON SCHOOL "Cajon for everyone" is a complete "multimedia textbook" for learning to play the cajon. The Polish-language school is a very rich source of knowledge about the cajon.

The book contains a lot of exercises that teach you how to play the cajon in a comfortable, understandable and intuitive way and allow you to develop your skills.

The Cajon School is a textbook rich in knowledge and detailed theory related to with the cajon, showing this instrument from every possible side - utilitarian, technical, practical...

The cajon school consists of a very detailed theoretical part and a highly diversified practical part, covering issues such as:
-origin and history of the birth of the cajon, its structure and types,
-playing techniques,
-sound,
-music notation and tablature of exercises,
-essential general musical theory,
-exercises developing the cajon player's hand skills and physical fitness,
-ways of building divisions and transitions,
-hundreds of exercises with varying degrees of difficulty ensuring freedom of movement in many musical genres,
- cajon player's accessories - how to use them and how to develop independence,
-additional chapters improving:
1. coordination of hands and feet,
2. dynamics,
3. timing (precision of play and sense of rhythm),
4.finger dexterity,
-what cajon to buy, how to tune, dampen and amplify it,
-and many others...

The school contains over 600 exercises!

All exercises are illustrated with musical notation and tablature (lesson part of the school).
Theoretical part richly illustrated with photographs.
All exercises recorded in MP3 and available on the website the author.
Additionally, there are video recordings available illustrating the issues discussed at school (available on the author's website).
An extension of the school are Play Along songs - songs to play on the cajon on your own.
Special ones are also included recordings developing playing precision.
Knowledge is supplemented by information about outstanding cajon players - Polish and world.

Musical styles and playing techniques:

The "Cajon School" is based on on 8 genre chapters, and each chapter consists of 10 lessons. Divisions and transitions used in many musical styles are discussed, including: Pop Rock, Ballad Rock, Blues, Funk, Hip Hop, Reggae, Ska, Country, Folk, Jazz, Disco, Reggaeton, Rumba, Waltz, ChaCha , Samba, Bossa Nova, Songo, Mozambique, Afro Cuban, Flamenco.

The school discusses various techniques used by cajonists, including: slap, bass, ghost, click, glissando, flams, finger playing techniques (finger roll, finger doubles, conga doubles), flams (single, double, triple), brush and shaker playing techniques (hands and legs), combining brushes/sticks with playing with hands.

About the Author:

Paweł Ostrowski - drummer, musician, educator, author of two textbook schools for drummers "Complete Training" and "Stylish Drummer". On a daily basis, he is the editor-in-chief of the Infodrum.pl portal, and also cooperates with Perkusista Magazine, creating his own teaching and guide materials. He is professionally involved in music, playing drums, cajon and creating inter-genre original music.

Author about the school:

My "School for the Cajon" is an extensive collection of information about the cajon and a very rich database of exercises, collected on the basis of my experience as a cajonist-drummer-musician, and many other contemporary materials available in the media and collected over the years. As an experienced musician, I can pick out the most valuable content and I also know how to select exercises to make them useful in playing.

The scope of exercises is very wide, supplemented with additional chapters, and more percussive "thinking" helps to logically build exercises and it is easier to acquire the practical skills of a musician.

The volume of the textbook: 138 pages
Author: Paweł Ostrowski
Guest: Patrycja Betley

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