Is there a name for the technique of drumming by slapping your chest and legs?

Question

Long ago, a friend showed me how to beat out a rythm as you walk by moving your hand(s) up and down, slapping both sides (front and back) of your thigh and your chest. You can synchronize it with your steps and sort of stop your feet. You can really beat out some complex rythms and it sounds really cool, but I don't know what, if anything, it's called. Do you?

Response to Annie-Mae,
Thanks for your answer to my question (“Is there a name for the technique of drumming by slapping your chest and legs?”, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060806195435AAK8wnV). I did a web search on “ham bone”, however, and I found several pages that mention it, but they all say that it’s literally performed with a pair of bones. See http://www.rhythmbones.com/video-reviews.html , for example. Is the term also used to refer to the case with no bones, where you’re just slapping?

Annie Mae: I just found time to do a little more web searching and you were definitely right about Hambone (a.k.a "Juba"). Those pages I found the first time were wrong. There is an Irish technique called "Rhythm Bones" that actually uses bones, but the "Hambone" originated (apparently) with American slaves. The following link will run a search of Yahoo Search that returns a lot of good pages on this, in case you're interested. I found it fascinating.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=hambone+beat++rhythm+slapping+legs+and+chest

More links:

“The Human Hambone”: http://www.frif.com/new2005/hamb.html

Bo Diddley biography: http://www.jdscomm.com/jrr/features/bios/blues_bios/bo_diddley.html

Answer 1

It is called "Ham Bone"

Answer 2

thats called "step" its when you step out a beat

Answer 3

siezure

Answer 4

dunno sorry!