For more detailed information on conga sounds, check out this article that explains each sound and technique. Martillo is the main pattern for bongo. This is why playing with excellent technique is so important in avoiding injuries.
Tumbao is the main pattern on congas. This pattern, like martillo, is all eighth notes with specific sounds assigned to each note. The main sounds are slaps and tones, filled in with heel and toe strokes. Check out this article for more conga patterns. The roles of congas and bongos in a modern salsa or Latin jazz ensemble are different. Bongo plays more improvisation around martillo and a certain accent pattern, while congas are the heart of the drums in the ensemble.
The tumbao played in congas is like a backbeat with a slap and two tones. This bell part anchors the group on the half note pulse and keeps the band together while the montuno section supports solos and more overall volume and energy.
Bongos are more than twice as popular than congas, according to search volume on the Internet. Although search volume tools can be inaccurate, the inaccuracies in numbers are not the real problem with this conclusion. If bongo is searched more, why are my conga article and videos three to fours more popular than the bongo material? But it could also be because a lot of people search bongos to buy a set or to learn about them because they know nothing. Maybe congas are more popular than bongo yet bongo wins the data game because people who think they are interested in bongos are actually wanting to know about congas.
I bet some people looking to purchase bongos are actually look for a doumbek or djembe. Nonetheless, congas and bongos are still searched as much as instruments like drum set, so they are at least as relevant as the most common type of drums in pop music.
Bongos win the portability question. Congas are much bigger, heavier, and can be harder to take places when the vehicle is filled with other things. You can take your bongo on the train, walk through the city, or stuff it in the overhead compartment on a plane.
If you do take your congas or bongo on the plane, make sure your tuning wrench is in the checked luggage. True story, unfortunately. If you use bags like I do, the bags will take a beating as you grab the strap and pull them out of the car four times a week.
Bongos cost about 60 to 80 percent of what one conga will cost on the top end of the quality. You can buy two congas that sound great for a few hundred dollars and a bongo on the lower end of quality for about a hundred and fifty.
I recommend checking out the prices of these instruments on the Rhythm Notes recommended gear page. But it measures quite high in comparison to other drums. It is slim build and single headed. It is a Cuban drum but probably it is derived from Africa. The shells of most of the congas are made of wood or fiberglass. The playing system of conga is almost like bongo.
They are normally 75cm tall. Congas are used in both popular and folk music. African music has a varied use of congas. This instrument is also very popular in Rumba, Afro Caribbean, Latin and salsa music. Bongos and congas are almost similar kind of instrument. But former are smaller than latter. There sound is not totally similar but they are not that much different also. Both are rhythm instruments.
Their playing style is almost same. Both of them are very popular. They can be used in almost every kind of music. But there are some difference between bongos and congas. Bongos are easy to carry. An authentic djembe made in West Africa is completely unique and can never truly be reproduced. However, drum sizes do follow some patterns—just know that you can see djembes that are only 12 inches tall, and then you can find some that are 30 inches tall—it all depends. The most common animal skins used for drumheads are calf or goat skins, although hand drum players often experiment with many different types of animal skins.
Nowadays, though, hand drums can be found with synthetic drumheads which sound different but are strong and very consistent. These synthetic drumheads are similar to other drumheads found on a drumset, which is some form of plastic, often something similar to or composed of Mylar. Believe it or not, Bongo Drums do not get their name from Bongos an antelope that lives on the African Continent , nor are their skins commonly if ever used for Bongo drums.
Want more info or want to see what a Bongo antelope looks like? Check out our article that digs more into the subject, here. There actually is no definitive answer as to where the name bongo comes from.
X8Drums speculates an early bongo drum player named Bonko was the reason—but no-one knows for sure. Bongos are hand drums, like Congas, or Djembes, but the techniques in which you play each of these instruments is different for each one.
All of the these drums are tuned differently and are of different sizes, thus they all have different sounds that you can make with each one. Bongos are no exception, but the sounds you can make with the bongos are different from the other drums—and because of that, the style in which you play bongos, congas, or djembes is very different. Bongo drums you typically use your fingers to play with an occasional hand slap, while congas and djembes are opposite you use your hands, primarily, and occasionally your fingers.
As with anything, the range of cost for hand drums has large range. The primary reason not to use sticks to play the bongos is that you can damage them. Due to the fact that bongos, congas, and djembes are hand drums, they have exposed bearing edges.
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