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African Presences I: Music in Africa » Mande Music
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African Presences I: Music in Africa. Mande Studies Association (MANSA). Grame Counsel’s extensive discographies of Malian and Guinean music. Chants et traditions mandingue. Festival of the Desert, Timbuktu, Mali (2007). Vanity Fair, “ Showtime in the Sahara. Mansa Musa richest person in history. Seke Kouyate reciting Mande history. Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, 2007). Oumou Sangare, “ Umu Nana. Oumou Sangare, “ Ah Ndiya. Inauguration into hunter’s society. In The Gambia (1978). Documentary by Claudine Pommier.
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The Mande Bala: April 2011
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An Interactive, Public Document of My Developing Thoughts on Skills Acquisition, Pedagogy, and Practice. Wednesday, April 20, 2011. It was with myself and fellow treeplanters Kevin Barkman and Myron Seuss, I think, that the phrase "two by noon" started acquiring currency. If we could have two thousand trees in the ground by 12:00 pm, we knew we were off to a good start and could feel confident that we would come back to camp with an acceptable number that day- usually over 4000. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Mande Bala: October 2011
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An Interactive, Public Document of My Developing Thoughts on Skills Acquisition, Pedagogy, and Practice. Sunday, October 23, 2011. My ability to see beyond the distance of one octave is rather limited. I can see the octave alright, but when I have to widen my mallet position on the keyboard (my "stance") to greater than one octave, my control diminishes (it feels like, exponentially.). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Mande Bala: Monthly Practice Report (November, 2014)
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An Interactive, Public Document of My Developing Thoughts on Skills Acquisition, Pedagogy, and Practice. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Monthly Practice Report (November, 2014). Recalling one post from 2009 ( The Third "M". And another from 2012 ( One Twenty-Minute Interval at a Time. Here is my November (2014) practice report:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Monthly Practice Report (November, 2014).
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The Mande Bala: August 2011
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An Interactive, Public Document of My Developing Thoughts on Skills Acquisition, Pedagogy, and Practice. Sunday, August 14, 2011. This is just a brief note to announce the launch of my website: mandebala.net. It's the barest of bones as yet, but . . . petit à petit. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Mande Bala: October 2010
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An Interactive, Public Document of My Developing Thoughts on Skills Acquisition, Pedagogy, and Practice. Sunday, October 31, 2010. Ternary Lamban: LH Leads. Hmm With most of Alsenï Sylla. S* ternary Lamban patterns, it feels like the left hand should lead. I guess with any pattern you might learn to feel it with a RH lead or. A LH lead, but some patterns seem to lend themselves to a LH lead more naturally. Note to self, I guess . . . S spelling for Alsenï. From the World of Bodybuilding. I might be forge...
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The Mande Bala: August 2010
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An Interactive, Public Document of My Developing Thoughts on Skills Acquisition, Pedagogy, and Practice. Friday, August 27, 2010. Report on Naby’s Workshop. To my two subscribers (and my thesis supervisor): sorry that it’s been so long since my last post. I have been practising, and indeed, I feel that I’ve learned a lot over the past few weeks about how. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Report on Naby’s Workshop.
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The Mande Bala: July 2011
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An Interactive, Public Document of My Developing Thoughts on Skills Acquisition, Pedagogy, and Practice. Saturday, July 16, 2011. My brother Toby and I have been involved in an ongoing discussion for well over a decade about the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to and routines for weight training and other forms of exercising. One of the observations to come out of these discussions is highly pertinent (indeed, perhaps central) to bala. Now, it is of course important not to let the de-e...
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The Mande Bala: Website Launch
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An Interactive, Public Document of My Developing Thoughts on Skills Acquisition, Pedagogy, and Practice. Sunday, August 14, 2011. This is just a brief note to announce the launch of my website: mandebala.net. It's the barest of bones as yet, but . . . petit à petit. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Mande Bala: Another Xylophone Skill?
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An Interactive, Public Document of My Developing Thoughts on Skills Acquisition, Pedagogy, and Practice. Sunday, October 23, 2011. My ability to see beyond the distance of one octave is rather limited. I can see the octave alright, but when I have to widen my mallet position on the keyboard (my "stance") to greater than one octave, my control diminishes (it feels like, exponentially.). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
