Jembe Notation Redux

To read the patterns and songs on this site, you'll need to understand this notation:

B = strong-hand Bass (open palm in center of drum skin)
b = weak-hand Bass

T = strong-hand Tone (closed flat hand at rim of drum skin)
t = weak-hand Tone

S = strong-hand Slap (hand flick at rim of drum skin)
s = weak-hand Slap

F = two-hand Flam

Capital letters for strong hand, small letters for weak hand.  This doesn't say anything about loud or quiet; look to the line below the hand beats, for the start of the bar (the "one") and the feel of the pulse. 

Try these examples:

B TtTtT   B TtTtT B TtTtT B TtTtT B TtTtT ...
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B TtS   B TtS B TtS B TtS B TtS B TtS B TtS ...
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BtTbTt  BtTbTtBtTbTtBtTbTtBtTbTtBtTbTtBtTbTt...
|__-__  |__-__|__-__|__-__|__-__|__-__|__-__...

B B Tt  B B TtB B TtB B TtB B TtB B TtB B Tt...
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B Tt  B TtB TtB TtB TtB TtB TtB TtB TtB Tt...
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B TtB TtB B B Tt  B TtB TtB B B TtB TtB TtB B B Tt...
|_-_-_-_|_-_-_-_  |_-_-_-_|_-_-_-_|_-_-_-_|_-_-_-_...

You may wonder why we need yet another notation, and why I post patterns here rather than Facebook or WhatsApp?

I avoid Facebook and WhatsApp so I can use fixed-pitched fonts to keep the spacing correct.  Almost all web site comment sections can do this, but to do this in WhatsApp, I have to write this...

B Tt
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...like this...

```B Tt```
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...which I find too tedious to bother - like going to the pre-WYSIWYG days of WordStar for DOS.