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CONTENTS
About the author 3
Pronunciation guide 3
Introduction 4
Chapter 1
Palm Wine Pickers 5
Two-finger picking 5
Palm wine basics 5
Parallel 6ths 6
Making it swing 6
Chapter 2
Highlife and Juju 8
Rhythm guitar 8
Juju 10
– Juju slow 10
Chapter 3
Congolese, Rumba, and Soukous 12
The clave rhythm 13
Congolese rhythm guitar 14
– Matonge 14
Congolese lead guitar 15
Soukous bass 15
– Congolese seben 1 16
– Congolese seben 2 17
Chapter 4
Music of the Manding Griots 18
Kora style 20
Balafon style 20
Ngoni style 21
– Kane Burema 21
– Diaoura 22
Lydian mode 23
Manding swing 24
Manding groove 25
Chapter 5
Malian Blues 26
Major pentatonic 27
– Songhai Piece 27
Minor pentatonic 28
– Minor pentatonic duet 28
Dorian pentatonic 29
– Dorian pentatonic duet 29
Wassoulou music 30
– Two-guitar Wassoulou piece 31
Chaper 6
South African Pickers and Strummers 32
Zulu fingerstyle guitar 32
– Walking song 32
– Zulu song 32
Mbaqanga 33
– Mbaqanga song 34
Chapter 7
Zimbabwe Rumba 36
– Sungura stomp 36
Chapter 8
Zimbabwe Mbira 38
Mbira fingerstyle 39
– Karigamombe fingersryle 39
Flatpick mbira guitar 40
– Pidigori 40
Lead mbira guitar 41
– Pidigori extended lead 41
Taireva 42
– Tairera (version 1) 42
– Tairera (version 2) 43
Chapter 9
Miracles of Madagascar 44
Sammy’s vamp 45
– Variations on Sammy’s vamp 45
Malagasy song 46