If you want to learn the ropes you ll need to get yourself a bongo drum set. You ll be playing closed tone open tone slap forward-backward rotation mambo bolero calypso guaguanco conga techniques and closed tone slap side-to-side rotation rotating little finger and thumb edge tone with the fingertips guajiro and martillo bongo techniques. Wow buy this bongo and you ll have what you need to do all of this and more.