D,jambey drum

The djembe drum is one of the most widely-know African drums. It originally comes from West Africa. African drums are usually made from wood and metal. They come in different shapes - some even have two drumheads. The djembe drum has one, large drumhead and is played with bare hands.

ABOUT DRUMS

Drums have been around for a long time. We’re talking about thousands of years. The earliest discovered drums come from way back in 5500 BC, making drums the first instruments that humans ever created! All you needed was a hollow container covered with animal skin to create the drum beat we are so familiar with today. In fact, the drum beat is the first sound we hear: our mother’s heartbeat.

PERCUSSIONS AND INSTRUMENTS

In this blog you can watch out what types of instruments are played in live music concerts and in recordings.

TIMBALES

Timbales is a shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, e...