Bewaa! The Dagara Recreational Music
/8:30 am and lessons were starting. The first lesson of the day was always gyil, and my first lessons were on bewaa. In 2011 Jerome and myself spent months working on Saakumu's arrangement of bewaa. When it was time for me to leave I had learned a majority of the songs, though time would challenge my knowledge. After four years in America, time successfully took many bewaa songs from my memory. Now that I have returned to Ghana I began retrieving my forgotten songs. Relearning this bewaa arrangement was a very unique experience. While I hadn't heard many of these forgotten songs for years, they were significantly less foreign, and took to my ears and hands much quicker than a new song. While learning the completely arrangement took only a few weeks, how to perform this arrangement in their true form didn't come until much later in my trip. This transformation is one of the most memorable aspects from this journey, and one I will discuss in much more detail another day.