HOW TO MAKE A DJEMBE VIDEO TUTORIAL
The Djembe Drum Making Videos below depict actual African drum makers carving the body of their Djembe Drums .
We carved our collection of Djembe Drums from the heartwood of Douglas Fir trees right here on our Vancouver Island rainforest. For our methods of construction, we ended up needing power tools to get the bulk of material out of the center of the djembe drum body, and then did the rest of the carving by hand. This is a test of strength and I highly recommend it to all the younger dudes out there wanting to prove their manhood through feats of strength and power. We made a variety of hand drums and about half of them turned out really hot, the other half so so. Certainly, we learned from every drum, mostly that it is what is in your hearts thoughts that determines the spirit and sound of each drum. It was amazing to hear the different personalities of each new Djembe as it was skinned and tuned. We had always felt the spirit of our drums as we played them, but this was remarkable the way they seemed to be born like our children, with the stamp of us, the parents, dwarfed by the in-born nature of the beings we had birthed.
There are several great videos of people playing Djembe Drums from all over the world, including a two year boy. To view the other videos, just click the Menu button of the video player and the list of Djembe Drumming videos will slide out.
We carved our collection of Djembe Drums from the heartwood of Douglas Fir trees right here on our Vancouver Island rainforest. For our methods of construction, we ended up needing power tools to get the bulk of material out of the center of the djembe drum body, and then did the rest of the carving by hand. This is a test of strength and I highly recommend it to all the younger dudes out there wanting to prove their manhood through feats of strength and power. We made a variety of hand drums and about half of them turned out really hot, the other half so so. Certainly, we learned from every drum, mostly that it is what is in your hearts thoughts that determines the spirit and sound of each drum. It was amazing to hear the different personalities of each new Djembe as it was skinned and tuned. We had always felt the spirit of our drums as we played them, but this was remarkable the way they seemed to be born like our children, with the stamp of us, the parents, dwarfed by the in-born nature of the beings we had birthed.
There are several great videos of people playing Djembe Drums from all over the world, including a two year boy. To view the other videos, just click the Menu button of the video player and the list of Djembe Drumming videos will slide out.
