GREENOTATION

GREENOTATION: Is an innovative musical system for writing African Music. It was created because music for the percussion instruments of Africa could not be written with western musical notes. For example in order to notate the music of an African drum, one must show whether the drum is struck with a stick, half hand or full hand. One must also indicate whether the stick, hand or half hand remained in contact with the drum skin or instantly rebounded. Therefore an entire new system had to be created to annotate the rhythm and nuances of African instruments.

GREENOTATION can notate the music music of bells, rattles, drums, talking drums, sticks, stamping tubes, xylophones, hand clapping and water drums. If you can count to four you too can play African music.

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