Drumdojo

Cha Cha Cha: Another dance that is very popular in this country in the club scene and even in international ballroom dancing as well as the Latino dance scene is the Cuban dance known in English as the...

CALYPSO (Trinidad-Tobago) Basic Calypso Rhythm Conga Conga O

Composed Rhythms of Ostad Nasser Farhangfar Peyman Nasehpour © 2002 Abstract Tonbak (a kind of goblet drum) is the chief percussion skinned instrument of Persia. Great masters of tonbak, especially...

Pete Lockett looks at the Rhythms of the Maghreb and how to clap properly Most people have quite a vague idea of the specifics of African drumming. If you were asked what the distinction...

Assembling the drum. Once the lug holes are all correctly drilled it's simply a matter of installing the lugs and assembling and tuning the drum. You know you are gonna love it! Odds and ends....

Attaching hardware Drilling for lugs. Once the shell is finished, the final operation will be drilling the finished shell for hardware. You need to drill a hole for the drum vent (I...

Shells: By far the most common unfinished shells out there are the Keller Maple Shells. A drum shell normally will simply be a maple plywood tube with no holes and the ends simply cut off square....

Conga Maintenance Conga drums are quite strong and stable and do not normally require a lot of maintenance. Conga heads are usually made of cowhide or water buffalo hide and are quite thick and strong....