Video: Origins of the Doumbek African Drum

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The origins of the Doumbek African drum are found in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Greece, Turkey and North Africa, as our doumbek drum expert and player explains in this free doumbek video tutorial.

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Hi my name is Alex Spurkel from Naked Rhythm and Universal Drumming. In this clip we're going to be talking about the Doumbek drum and it's cultural background. Let me start with a quick demonstration. Okay, so what you just heard is me playing the Doumbek otherwise known as Derbekki, Derboka, or Tabla depending on where you are in the Middle East. This drum is played all throughout the Middle East and around the Mediterranean. Countries popularly known as Doumbek countries are Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, but it also goes up North to Greece, Turkey, and than down south all the way out to North Africa and even out to Morocco and as you can see a lot of these drums are very ornately designed such as this. All beautiful hand inland. Originally this drum is made out clay and with a fish skin head. Which is this one right here. This is the traditional Doumbek. Okay, as you can see they've stretched a skin, fish skin over the top here and than have a inlaid clay body. These days most professionals tend to play the synthetic variation here. Which I'm going to be doing the lessons with. With an aluminum body and a synthetic head. There a lot more indestructible shall we say. So with that background let's get started and learn how to play this drum.

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Origins of the Doumbek African Drum

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