There are different ways to use the jingles and fill up the rhythm. For example you can add a note before every tak.
or play the jingles continously between the accents:
When you lift your left thumb from the jingle while playing, you get another jingle sound. Now two pairs of jingles sound at the same time, sounding more open and ringing. In the second example the last accent is substituted by a stroke on the jingles, so that the last four notes you play are open jingles.
You can put the open jingle sound to many different places inside the rhythm. Just experiment.
If you add a second pattern, you have another middle-eastern rhythm called Chiftetelli.:
Now use the jingles to fill it up :
Apart from playing the jingles directly with the fingers, you can shake the instrument back and forth to get another sound. You tilt the instrument backwards after a right hand stroke and forward on the next 16th. There are different places where you can put this movement inside the Malfuf rhythm. You can hit the drum again with your right hand together with the forward motion like in the next example, or wait until the next 16th like in the two following ones.
The next pattern is a combination of the last three:
The same technique now applied to the chiftetelli rhythm:
Now let´s have a look at the soft position. The tricky part are the index fingers. You have to press them on the skin for the taks, but lift them to get the open bass sound. First some exercises to get a feel for the movements:
The next 2/4 rhythm is called Karatchi:
And now back to the Chiftetelli. In the soft position you can play it like this (in the second example two pickup notes are added):
These are some examples to play rhythms in different ways. Of course there are many more. Try around with the different jingle sounds. Also you can substitute the “taks” with slaps or with bass sounds. The possibilities are endless.
