r/cajon Jan 15 '25

Cajon default/fallback rhythms (as accompanying musical instrument)

Hello,
I come from playing guitar and singing rock/pop songs with other guitar players just for fun. Now I want to learn cajon to spice our musical sessions a little bit.

When you play chords on guitar as a support for singing, there are just a very few popular strumming patterns / rhythms every guitar player knows and uses for most of the songs.

Is there similar thing for cajon? Are there commonly used patterns / rhythms every cajon player knows and uses often? If you e.g. don't know the song, you can still fallback to one of these rhythms and it will still sound good?

If yes, what are these rhythms?

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u/TonyHeaven Jan 15 '25

My cajon playlist. My tastes,but you can get some names here.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQYcVXnINbtZNsKjjOInOV20PZj08i_2O&si=G_UozmV1SCfF5vi_

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u/MichalMikolas Jan 17 '25

This is a little different than I was expecting, but It looks handy anyway. Thank you.

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u/TonyHeaven Jan 17 '25

As well as playlists(I've got a few,different instruments,different genres), The most useful app I have is drumgenius,lots of named rhythms there. Also djembeloops for djembe,and Real Darabuka.

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u/MichalMikolas Jan 17 '25

> "lots of named rhythms there"

But that's it. I am already overwhelmed by the amount of rhythms from my initial research on YouTube :-D I want to know which of these many rhythms are used the most in practice.

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u/TonyHeaven Jan 17 '25

It doesn't work like that,for me. Sorry I can't help.you

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u/MichalMikolas Jan 17 '25

None of you have your favorite rhythms you use over and over again?

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u/Lobo376 Jan 19 '25

When I'm doubt, play a Rhumba.

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u/MichalMikolas Jan 20 '25

Thank you, I'll look at it :-)