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Why People Play African Drums
How a Djembe is Made
Making Bass Sounds on a Djembe Drum
Tones on a Djembe Drum
How to Slap a Djembe Drum
Six Sounds of a Djembe Drum
Kuku Rhythm on a Djembe Drum
First Djembe Part for Kuku Rhythm
Second Djembe Part for Kuku Rhythm
Songba Drum Beats for Kuku Rhythm
Kenkini Drum Beats for Kuku Rhythm
Doundoun Drum Beats for Kuku Rhythm
Playing Two African Drums Together
Playing Slap & Press on African Drums
Hand Exercises for Djembe Drumming
Advanced Hand Exercises for Djembe Drumming
Exercises for Djembe Drumming Balance
Learning New Sounds on a Djembe Drum
Playing Low African Drums
Using the Body for African Drumming
African Drumming Performance
Summary: The cone at the bottom of a djembe allows it to project sound. Learn what a djembe is made out of in this free African drum video from a musician.
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"In this clip, I'm going to explain you what a djembe is about. A djembe is made with one piece of wood if you see it and it's only one piece of wood. And also, on the top, they use a goat skin. With the goat skin, they have metal here to mount it with some chord. And those are nylon chords, sometime they use partial chord, but in Africa they used the skin also to do it in the old time. So, and the cone make the drum speak loud and you know the djembe is one of the loudest drums in the world. And so and also we have the other drum that they use, calfskin, but the djembe is the only drum in that region in African, for example, in Guinea, in Mali, they play the djembe a lot and they use a goat skin for the djembe."
eHow Article: How a Djembe is Made
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