Part of oriental dancing is learning the Middle Eastern rhythms. The struggle for most Westerners is letting go of our numerical counting (and 5 ,6, 7, 8) in favour of the dums and teks.
While searching the internet for ways to help students (and admittedly myself) to understand these rhythms, I found this "cheat sheet". I have found it very useful as a reference.
Doumbek Rhythm Cheat Sheet by Carmine T. Guida on Scribd
https://www.scribd.com/doc/35379143/Doumbek-Rhythm-Cheat-Sheet
Drum image attribution: Rani777
