For the past 35 years, my partner and I have world hand drums, djembe, congas, bongos, ashikos, played tabla and temple blocks. Mostly we did for the fun and the mystery plays of how the powerful sound affects us, the drummers, and those who hear it. We played in a single all-percussion band for a few years and found it wonderfully challenging and very very happy.
In all the years the idea of actually our own djembe drums never even once came to us,although it was a struggle at that time to buy a decent hand-carved djembe anywhere but Africa. We even traveled to Sierra Leone, West Africa in our quest, and spent several years teaching high school. At this time, 1980 was for white people to play and touch the drums and it was provoked uproar for a woman of any color do frowned upon, so. We made it back to Canada come with two drums one, a 14-inch sengui, from the Sierra Leone National Dance Troupe, the other a smallTourist Class djembe. We never got that one sound like a drum on all but one of the dance group is still in our collection and is a great little drum. Our next drum purchases came from a music store in Mexico, a pair of beautiful congas.
For long, perhaps 10 years, we were happy with them and with our ability to pound along with our favorite world music and reggae songs on the stereo. Then in about 94, we saw an ad for a 7-day African Drum Workshop with the last majorBabatunde Olatunji. We signed, pronto, and at the end of learning about a whole world, we had no idea existed for Drummers: Drum language. I have written an article about this on our Web site djembe drum, so I do not go into this adventure in drums here. However, it was in this workshop that we Trini "another fabulous Trinidad" lead drummer named met 'Sanga'. "Sanga o The Valley" was his official full name on his business card. We had 3 small children (now drumming is not anything we do!) Andwas planning a trip to Tobago (Trinidad & Tobago) for the coming winter. Meeting Sanga and he is from T & T was a great coincidence, / sign for us that our trip was intended to go ahead. Sanga gave us the contact details of his close contacts in Tobago, which was an excellent drummer, a great guy and a drum carvers. We could not travel fast enough from common. Sanga said that we should not even our own drums with us, because his buddy was drums there for us. SWEET!
Now, everNOT dissappointed. We met with Sanga buddy come within a week, and we really connected immediately. Wayne Guerra and his wife Carol and 2 sons as old as we had such a great group of people. We have to play with Wayne & Carol drum band called Culture Stop and Wayne, each of us has a drum in a few days so we could get really into it. Drumskins Holy smoke! Can these guys play. The way they played their music drum so tightly choreographed, with all signals and drum patternCommuniques all built differently in each song. We quanta on this trip in terms of our skills and knowledge Drum jumped up, and we were even able to tape our sessions drum and actually write down the rhythms that we learned from Wayne.
The most extraordinary, what we had learned, but how to carve, Skin & tune djembe, joon joon & Ashiko and drums. Wayne has it all with hand chisels and injuries, goes on a log of mango wood like a madman at first slowly and then gradually making andSmoothing of the drum body, until it is exactly the right thickness of a feeling. We sat for days in the tropical heat, eating grapefruits from Wayne and Carol's back yard and watched him work. He was just a few years younger than us, but yikes! What a powerful intense effort he is able was, even if the heat has given us a couple of zombies all day, until the sun went down. They were all so when it comes to their performances, including drum, some say bleeding coming from different placesfrom the strains of it. We have been humbled and impressed. Their sound was incredible.
We have measured as Wayne and out of welded steel rings that our freshly soaked goatskin drum would be too much of our new bodies be observed. It was really hypnotic, the whole scene. One inch wide strip of scrap materials were torn from some little old Teddy, "and then the long, thin strips were then wrapped around and soften the metal bands and the connection between the rings and comfortable that the ropewould pull the skin taut. Very pleasant to work. It's kind of cool, looks like the pattern on the fabric, when it cut and then packaged in its "own edges.
The heat really for the next stage, which lifted the rope through the rings on the top pair, and in the smaller single ring at the bottom of the drum is bulging body tissue itself. The upper and lower rings are then closer together through the woven / knotted rope that is made more and more closely associated with each node. Waynespent a whole afternoon of his life teaches us that node. Again and again. And again. It was getting difficult for us, although they showed us dozens of times. We blamed it on the heat. We all laughed for hours. When we finally got there, we were amazed at the genius and simplicity of the whole process. Wayne has to sing a little song out of it to remind us. Under, over, under and around. It went on.
It is the tightening of the skin that really strenuous part ismaking, drum and tuning. MAN do you have ever had in the last 6 knots drag that to get the skin firm enough. A woman from me free to those taking part. I have no objection will be treated differently than the guys again. My partner, a guy was not so lucky and actually broke a few parts of itself, always hand how hard you pull, brace your 2 feet just to the drum body and then pulls the rope with a piece of hard to keep you remember to hold. CorrectBreathing has not practiced so tear the eardrum. (Or your stomach!) The new drum is massaged and played only a bit from the node moves to make the skin tighter and tighter. Finally, our drums were ready to play, and we went nuts, like a pair of colts published in clover. All of this made big drum, but we had come on the way to the game.
And we do not play until it was time for our family to pack BC Canada again. We were not to exceed 2 months, and that was about allthe heat we could. page Beach or no beach, it's really, really, really hot at the equator. We made plans to have Wayne and Carol come to stay with us at our place. Perhaps during a tour of shows and drum workshops to southern BC. Our new drums came on the long flight back home runs, 3 flights, 20 hours. CAP!
It would be another year before making Wayne's' drum lessons we would call a part of the psyche, which takes us to carve a strong urge, and the skin over the drums. We carved our collection ofDjembe drums from the heartwood of Douglas fir trees here on our area of Vancouver Iceland rain forest. One of our over one hundred years old Douglas fir trees of the year died. It was 4 feet wide at the base, a lot of heartwood in a couple of big drums. We did not have a joon joon set in our collection and this tree looked like it could definitely be a few joon joon have in him. We dreamed of a mammoth joon joon so it would be a special shopping you need to get it at concerts. On the dayFor the first time was in our court to consider it as our tree, a big old helmet landed on the dead woodpecker drum up and cried all day. The woodpecker is the special wild animal that is a totem for drummers around the world. Maybe you've never thought of it, but the woodpecker is a drummer. Often beat out designs to us and each other on rooftops, trees and even our metal wind vane. We knew that we do it then. And we did.
The tree provided enough wood forthirty-three Djembes and two giant size joon joon requires that two elk skins, heads for them. Goats are not so great.
My partner has the first three out of hand, but then had to change the methods of power tools are a little bit when his ugly got carpal tunnel in the wrist issue. Then we have chain saws, chisels, hand sander, reciprocating saw, and even power Sanders at the end. The drums, he was splendid to look at all of them, but only about half of themnever to produce that certain popping sound of a large djembe. We never find out what had gone wrong with those, or what was exactly what the good. Surely we have learned from each drum, above all, that is, what in your hearts, thoughts, which determines the spirit and tone of each drum. It was amazing to hear the different personalities of each new djembe, as it was carved, smoothed skinned and coordinated. We always had the feeling that the spirit of our drums, as we played, but it wasremarkable. They appeared in this world, had come as our children, placed with their parents similarity of their own individual personalities and natures of the shadows.
It was certainly interesting to make the African djembe drums & joon joon from the wood of the Canadian rain forest trees, with the skills we learned on the Caribbean island of Tobago. The BC-Douglas fir tree is an excellent sounding drum. The djembes us from her very strong, powerful voice and had just producedloud popping alive notes like mango Wayne "mahogany wood and drums. We were proud and floored, really, that we go even further and make djembe drums with our own hands. Our white skin, and North America pampered childhood had not left us completely ' drum unusable "after all. It took just shows how much sweat had to be shed, and then pushed into the production of the enormous physical, emotional and intellectual effort.
Thanks again Wayne Guerra, Drum Master, for your patience,Humor and love, while a few people who taught us how unlikely the drum, and then how to make a drum. The ability to make a drum skin, a drum and a drum tune has changed the level at which we play the drum. I do not know why, there was only us as a deep connection and understanding of who we are and who the drum in the drum world.
Thus djembe drummers, do not be afraid to try a drum. I promise you, you are skinning and carving your own drum you a better drummer. These days, thereThere are many books and videos, how to make a djembe, and workshops all over the world. Strongly recommended that at least a drummer in your life of the drum. They open up a whole new Valley of the drum in yourself and you will not regret it.
Diane Lennox
We carved our collection of djembe drums from the heartwood of Douglas fir trees right here on our Vancouver Iceland rainforest. For our construction, which ended the power we need tools to get out the bulk of the materialthe center of the djembe drum body, and then the rest of the carving is by hand. This is a test of strength and I very much recommend to all young dudes out there to prove their masculinity through acts of force and strength. We have a variety of hand drums and about half of them turned out very hot, the other half is so so. Surely we have learned from each drum, above all, that is, what in your heart believe that the spirit and tone of each drum provides. It was amazingto hear the different personalities of each new djembe, as it was and matched skin. We always had the feeling that the spirit of our drums, as we played, but it was remarkable how they seemed to like our children are born with the stamp of us, the parents, the shade provided by the in-born nature of beings which we had brought forth.
There are several videos of people playing djembe drums from around the world, including a two-year boy. To view the other videos, simply click the menu button on the videoBe the list of players and djembe drums videos glide.
dog-whisperer-online a dog 2009-2010 seminar plan
