Posts Tagged ‘percussion

We do not have roll over minutes in our house. It is good to skip days sometime to let you family know that you are thinking about them. As any drummer knows, it is easy to get lost in time when practicing, especially when playing to music. So when your wife comes in and points to her watch, you smile and say, “Yes Dear.”

My experience with the speed drumming is a strange one. Basically, one October day, while picking up some drum sticks at a local music store, I noticed drummers using a device called a “Drumometer. This “drumming speed” measurement device used a practice pad for a striking surface with an embedded piezo trigger. The trigger was connected to a counter-timer computer brain that had a count and a timer display.

These exercises are great for relaxing the neck muscles. When doing head warm-ups be sure to maintain good posture and execute them slowly. This is to be emphasized for all of the other exercises as well to prevent injury.

Made in the shape of a shell with an animal hide stretched over it, the djembe is a large goblet like drum that falls into the membranophone category of instruments. Mostly played by just using the hands its shape produces a hard to resist deep tone or bass sound. Found all over West Africa the djembe is among the most popular of all the African instruments.

The djembe belongs to the membranophone family of musical instruments, typically played with bare hands it has a shell shaped like a large goblet and is covered with stretched animal skin. One of the most popular instruments in West Africa, the rounded shape of the djembe body creates a deep tone or bass sound when the skin of the drum is struck correctly.