# 1990s VHS • Rhythmic Wisdom Frame Drum 60 FPS

Rhythmic Wisdom Frame Drum is an instructional video on frame drum technique. The program opens with a spoken meditation on the drum's connection to the mother's blood and the origins of human drumming, followed by a long uninterrupted performance section. Spoken instruction resumes with four-stroke combination patterns, tock strengthening and paradiddle exercises drawn from Stick Control, eight-beat rhythms, brushing stroke rhythms, and interlocking of two patterns performed with a second drummer named Tommy. The second half covers fast kaa technique drawn from South Indian kanjira playing using a split-hand ki-ti-ta-ka approach, incorporating kititaka into combinations, tock roll exercises using a 4-3-2-4 finger sequence, advanced alternating tock rolls, and finger snap technique on the drum edge. The closing section demonstrates the tambourine, a pandeiro-style tambourine, the bandera snare frame drum, and the kanjira, followed by closing words on practice and a final performance of Bumba Meiboi rhythms from Brazil.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1990
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-RhythmicWisdomFrameDrum)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/TheVistaGroup-RhythmicWisdomFrameDrum?play=1)