Steel Drum Life: An answer to John Stone's questions about my Cajon. Part 3 of 2.

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If this part 3 of 2 had been a snake, it would have bit my my Cajones!

Recently, I created this post about a cajón (a box):https://steemit.com/life/@steemseph/steel-drum-life-island-music-bass-for-a-highly-respected-city-official-s-memorial-and-then-a-surprise-cajon-request-part-2-of-2-43890f74e59b6

After I finish and posted it, our neighbor @johnstone asked a few obvious questions: https://steemit.com/life/@johnstone/re-steemseph-steel-drum-life-island-music-bass-for-a-highly-respected-city-official-s-memorial-and-then-a-surprise-cajon-request-part-2-of-2-43890f74e59b6-20180630t120913575z

Hi @johnstone! Thanks for responding and thanks for inspiring this part 3 of 2 post.

This was my response: https://steemit.com/life/@steemseph/re-johnstone-re-steemseph-steel-drum-life-island-music-bass-for-a-highly-respected-city-official-s-memorial-and-then-a-surprise-cajon-request-part-2-of-2-43890f74e59b6-20180630t153649156z

It’s just a box. No chords and no electricity required for this acoustic instrument. It has some secret stuff inside that I didn’t talk about (See part 3 of 2).

Traditionally, we play Cajón with our hands. (some people use a brush)

First we sit ontop of it, reach down between our legs, and then smack it with our palms and finger tips to produce different sounds.

Since I’m trying to play it like a drum set, I mainly use my right hand’s palm to strike the middle of the cajón when I want a low tone (bass drum type sound). Then I’ll use my left hand to strike to top left corner to get a higher pitched tone that also brings out the snares.

On this black cajón, the top left corner is pealing away from the wood a little. When I smack it with my fingers, it produces a really cool snap type sound that accentuates the snares inside.

I should create a video to show you. Thanks for teaching me with your questions John.

Microlab Stereo sounds like an all in one battery powered portable speaker used to play music by bands like Stereo Lab. Is it?

Just Play It!

I made that video for you @johnstone. It's kinda weird at the end because it's hard to line up the two videos on an iPhone and I also "layback" a lot (eek) while I'm playing the cajón in one of them. I just wanted to be wacky and record each part with a metronome without hearing the previous part. (Normally I would want to listed to the drumset while Im recording percussion.)

Guess what @johnstone... I have another type of cajón that I haven't even talked about yet. Maybe I can get a friend to help me with that video.

NEXT: "Part 4 Of 2!?! Another cajón to compare with, just for the hell of it!"

Is that a good title? I just made it up.

I hope everyone is learning something more and having a few giggles too. I hope I get better at playing drums by doing all this. 😬

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