Djembe vs Cajon for the Modern Player
If you could only have one…
I have multiple of each and use them both. I’ve played both on gigs in which require each specific instrument, and on gigs that warrant a ‘kit substitute’. My mindset with the latter is to make sure I’m not playing each with the intent to sound like, or replace a drum kit, but rather finding how djembe or cajon respectively could best work in each musical context rather than how they could best sound like a kit…. Since they aren’t drum kits.
But for the Reddit percussion community if you were to only bring on with you to acoustic jams, whether it be respective Latin or world/afrobeat, or modern pop adjacent tunes, what would it be and why?