MoRhythm-Africa 4+
Djembe/Dunun rhythms
Susan Marvin
Designed for iPad
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- £3.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
ABOUT MO’RHYTHM DJEMBE/DUNUN PLAY ALONG
Mo’Rhythm Beginning African Drumming Play Along App is the brain-child of world-renowned percussionist Monette Marino. Designed to provide you with a platform to practice individual drum parts on your real drums while listening to the other instruments of the djembe orchestra, all with the convenience of your smartphone or tablet.
Here’s how it works:
First, select the rhythm you want to practice. Then select the instruments you would like to play accompany you while you practice. Select the tempo and then press Play. You will hear the djembe signal at the start of each rhythm and then you can begin playing your drum along to the instruments you have selected.
This App contains audio only, however there are 50 videos available (10 rhythms times 5 drums each) as In-App purchases if you would like to see the movement and position of the hands on the drums.
“Play Along” increases your listening & playing skills and will help you to play in sync with other instruments of the djembe orchestra, enhancing your understanding of how all the parts fit together.
African rhythms for Beginning Content included are: Balakulandjan, Denedon, Djole, Fe, Kuku, Moribayassa, Soliwulen, Konden, Soli (Fast), and Toro.
Once you have downloaded the app, you may add intermediate and advanced levels of rhythms as in-app purchases.
The Intermediate level includes: Dallah, Djaa, Djansa, Kakilambe, Kassa, Mendiani, Sofa, Sorsonet, Sunun, and Tiriba.
The Advanced level of rhythms include: Abondan, Dunungbe, Konkoba 1, Konkoba 2, Konowulen 2, Lekule, N'Goron, Soboninkum, Zaouli A, and Zaouli B.
For more information on Mo’Rhythm programs visit www.mo-rhythm.com.
ABOUT THE APP
When you buy this app, all the audio and play along rhythms for the first level of instruction are available. This includes 10 beginning rhythms.
The video instructions from Monette are optional and available as additional in-app purchases. To access the videos, press on the button that looks like a tv with a picture of the drum. You don't *have* to buy the videos.
The Play button for the audio is on the bottom row of buttons.
What’s New
Version 2.1
Fix for video access in iOS 14 and higher.
Ratings and Reviews
Fantastic app, highly recommended
I've been playing djembe for about 10 years and wish I'd had this app when I first started! This is a lovely little app, and a really good learning tool. Brilliant for learning the ten rhythms included in the app and fantastic practice play-along material. Each drum part can be quickly heard on its own at one touch and back to the ensemble at another touch, or you can turn on/off the parts you want to hear so you can choose how you practise best. As an experienced player I still use the app for play along material so I can practise soloing at varying speeds and with different rhythms. Notation is also there in two different formats as well as a bit of info about each rhythm. Videos are available as in-app purchases which would be very useful for players who need help with handing, and at 79p per video it's such good value. All in all, a sleek well-thought out app that every beginner djembe player should definitely buy, and one that more experienced players can still get so much out of,and all for a very reasonable price.
Further help needed
In principle this should be a good app. There is much that is to applauded: the attempt to provide videos, being able to solo any instrument or any combination of instruments, the provision of various forms of notation. However in two areas improvement is needed. The videos take up to much memory: I stopped downloading after finding that the size of videos for just own rhythm was approx 200 mb. My impression is that by careful choice of video format and size smaller videos would be possible; there are plenty of examples of smaller but excellent videos on YouTube. Moreover, I found the videos a little difficult to follow: it may be the angle from which the video is taken or the speed of playing. I find the YouTube videos of Michael de Miranda much better as a teaching aid. A second area where improvement could be made is in the notation section. Some detailed explanation of the details of the notation would be helpful.
App Privacy
The developer, Susan Marvin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Susan Marvin
- Size
- 63.9 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple TV
- Requires tvOS 10.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Copyright (c) 2021 Monette Marino, All rights reserved.
- Price
- £3.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Intermediate Level £2.99
- Advanced Level £2.99
- Intermediate Bonus Pack £0.99
- Djole £0.99
- Advanced Bonus Pack £0.99
- Beginning Bonus Pack £0.99
- Balakulandjan £0.99
- Kuku £0.99
- Denadon £0.99
- Sorsonet £0.99