Folk Rhythms DVD by David Holt

We have watched "Folk rhythms: learn to play spoons, bones, washboard, hambone and the paper bag" by David Holt (Homespun Tapes) a number of times now. Highly recommended! He is very accomplished, smooth and fun to watch.

This last week Supriya and I spent some quality time on it and learned to play spoons. I played 2 actual spoons and Supriya played the Metal Spoons (such as the one seen here) . Once we got the basic rhythms down, we started singing simple songs. For the last couple of days Supriya and I have been singing with me on the piano and she with the spoons. She sings the verse of "Yankee doodle dandy" and I sing the chorus. We also sang "Follow the drinking gourd". It has a more complicated swing rhythm, but she kept at it and did a fairly good job. Looks like we have a two person band forming right here...