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Habib Koité & Bamada Habib comes from a noble line of Khassonké griots, traditional troubadors who provide wit, wisdom and musical entertainment at social gatherings and special events. Habib grew up surrounded by seventeen brothers and sisters, and developed his unique guitar style accompanying his griot mother. He inherited his passion for music from his paternal grandfather who played the kamele n'goni, a traditional four-stringed instrument associated with hunters from the Wassolou region of Mali. "Nobody really taught me to sing or to play the guitar," explains Habib, "I watched my parents, and it washed off on me."

This instructional DVD is by Jim Donovan of Rusted Root. There's a media player on this page featuring some of Rusted Root's more percussive tunes.

Professional tanpura and shruti, high quality sound, five-band equalizer, advanced metronome, pitch/speed change, high-precision tuning, tone generator, audio-file player, and much more...

Cagatay Acar, Umut Caglar, Hope Munro Smith, Panos Agiakatsikas, Simeon Chapin, Richard Lazzara... Add more!?

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