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Posted: **Wed Nov 09, 2005 7:53 pm**

Hi,
are there any people in the Stockholm area that teach conga, either regular courses or hours?

/CA

Posted: **Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:43 pm**

I have a friend ..Raul Berrios who is there he can teach you conga bongo and thai chi .........He is playing around Stockholm, with a trio or a quartet, he also plays dumbek and odd time rhythms. HE IS MY BEST FRIEND!....email his son -Gabriel first to reach "mi pana" [email].....forzman_metal@hotmail.com....the[/email] last number I had of his is .....004646253410.....I believe it's his cell phone....just tell him you spoke with me , Okay?.....

"JC" Johnny Conga....

Posted: **Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:45 pm**

BTW WELCOME TO OUR FAMILY OF DRUMMERS!.....you willl earn a lot here. Go thru the site, lot of info....tell us a bit about you.....peace....and let me know if and when you reach Raul......."JC" Johnny Conga....

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:07 am**

Hi JC

Thank you

What a nice welcome! I will certainly check out this forum often!

Maybe I will contact your friend!

I am a 42 yr old music loving telecomm engineer that started to play the conga just a few months ago. Why? I don't know really--a sudden inspiration combined with a good deal in a music shop, maybe! Of course, I have listened a lot to Santana, Weather Report and such jazz/rock with latin influences, and have considered conga a cool instrument.

But the main reason is perhaps that life is short and I wanted to take the opportunity to do something new and fun!

So now I have added congas to the list of instruments that I play--poorly but enthusiastically!

I also play guitar and keyboards poorly.

I bought Poncho Sanchez Conga Cookbook which is excellent to get started to learn basic rythms. Then I also play along to a Poncho concert DVD. Fits well to the rythms I just learned!

I live in in an apartment, but I have very tolerant neighbors. One of them even lent me his djembe!

They think it is fun that I play congas--except once when I had to demonstrate my new skills to friends after returning from a party at 1.30 in the night !

So I am not, and never will be, a professional musician or even a very good amateur I am afraid, but I will have fun. And learning a new instrument opens up a new musical world and you suddenly hear congas everywhere! My CD collection is growing as a result!

I make steady progress, but of course I had to go through many basic things myself that a teacher maybe could fix in a short time: proper tuning, proper slap sound, etc.

So a few hours of basic training would be very nice to get the basics right.

Now I have to get back to work

Bye

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:46 pm**

Hi Conga Aficianado....here is Raul Berrio's number i just got it from his son in Stockholm, so forget the first one I sent you....
46-704-103982....that is his cell phone....I just called it but he didnt answer ,just his answering msg....Let me know when u hook up with him. You will not be dissapointed,a make a great friend with him too.....he is a beatiful person, and a "giver"....."JC" Johnny Conga...

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Teachers in Stockholm, Sweden???