Every Saturday, I’m taking a Conga
lesson and it has been almost 8 months since I started learning it. You may
wonder what the “Conga” is.
The conga is a musical instrument which
has an African origin. It is a tall, narrow and single-headed drum and the sound
is produced by hands. The conga is one of the musical instruments for composing
SALSA or SON music, which originally comes from Cuba in Latin America. The
reason I know this musical instrument is because I’ve been doing salsa dancing
for a long time. I was interested and wanted to play some musical instruments to
make more fun of the dancing. At this time, I found the Conga lesson near my house
and I started taking lessons.
I feel that playing the conga is more
difficult than dancing Salsa. As for dancing, the body can be moved without
working my brain harder, but as for playing the conga, we sound out rhythms by
using the right and left hand separately while standing and stomping the feet.
It seems that I’m training my brain as well. I always feel exhausted after the
lesson. Normally, Conga players perform while sitting, but we perform standing
up. This is more fun than a sitting style, because we can feel the sound
through the whole body.
My dream is to make an amateur band
with my friends in the future. I’m not sure whether my dream will come true or
not, but now I’m practicing with keeping the dream.
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