<\/a><\/p>\nAnd that’s the bikutsi! If you’re looking for a little extra flavor, change every second ride cymbal note to the floor tom. It’s super easy to get creative with this rhythm, so try replacing notes with other parts of the kit and see what sticks!<\/p>\n
About Jessica:<\/strong>
\nJessica Burdeaux took interest in the drums at a very young age. She began playing percussion during 5th grade and switched to drum-set during 7th grade. Jessica decided to pursue the drums professionally after graduating from college, and began posting her playing to Instagram and YouTube, where she grew a following with her grooves and cover songs. Besides her very successful social-media presence, Jessica is also an experienced drum instructor and gigging drummer with the band City Mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bikutsi is a rhythm from Cameroon, Africa and means “vibrations from the earth”. Jessica Burdeaux provides a step-by-step approach that’s sure to test your limb independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":12799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4017,4025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beats-and-fills","category-drum-beats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22567,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions\/22567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}