Conny Sommer
The Big Instruction Book for the Cajon

Contents

Introduction 
				What exactly is a caj—n?
				The history of the caj—n	   
				Traditional caj—n cultures   
				The modern caj—n	    
				The contents of this book	    
				Photos of various types of caj—nes	     
				Tuning the caj—n    
				Muting the inside of the caj—n   
				Adjusting the screws on the front surface	    
				Muting the strings	  
				Changing the string tension  	  
				Playing the caj—n	  
				Caj—n size and body size
				Please sit down!	  
				Tilting allowed	  
				The playing position	  
				The playing area of the caj—n
Caj—n playing 
techniques	
			  	The four basic striking techniques	  
	  			The tone	  
	  			The slap	  
	  			The tipp	  
	  			The bass	  
	  			Floating hand	  
	  			The Peruvian bass
	  			Other striking techniques	  
	  			The crash-tone  
	  			The click	  
	  			The knock	  
	  			The finger-roll	  
	  			Playing on the side surface of the caj—n  
	  			With feet and hands	  
	  			Varying the pitch of the bass
	  			Muted tone/slap	  
	  			Glissando	  
	  			Caj—n with brushes
Practical Exercises		  	
				Explanation of the caj—n rhythms illustrated
				Basics for practicing  
			  	Basic rhythm exercises
			  	Basic exercises in four  
			  	Basic exercises in three	  
Caj—n-rhythms for
flamenco		  	
				Tango flamenco	  
			  	Rumba flamenca	  
			  	Sevillanas und fandango de huelva	  
			  	Flamenco rhythms in twelve	  
			  	Twelve or one?	  
			  	Buleria	  
			  	Alegria, sole‡	  
Caj—n-rhythms for
brazilian music		  	
				Bossa Nova	  
		  		Samba	  
		  		AfoxŽ	  
Cajon rhythms for
rock and pop music		 	
				Slow rock	  
		  		Slow rock double time	  
		  		Rock-grooves with shaker	  
		  		The shuffle	  
		  		Fast rock	  
		  		House etc.	  
		  		New Orleans	  
		  		Blues	  
		  		Hip-Hop	  
Appendix		  	
				Microphone techniques and Equalizing	  
				Contents of the CD	
				Contents of the download library	
				About the author	
				Acknowledgements
				Overview of all symbols


The tone
Rumba flamenca
Bossa nova
Slow rock
House etc
Overview of all symbols
TOC CD/Download-library
Recorded examples