Oriental Rhythms Cheat Sheet

by Jessica Perelson

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