Making a Djembé
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- A tutorial video on how to make a Djembé!
First half: Shaping and carving,
Second half: Art work, skinning and tuning!!
I spent 2 months in Ghana learning to play Djembé and Kpanlogo with a lovely charity called Project OKURASE www.projectokurase.org. Whilst there I made life time friends and found it heart breaking to say goodbye to them. I had the chance to learn how to make a drum as well having lessons as part of a cultural drum and dance group. They let me video them teaching me how to make a Djembé and I figured some other people would be interested in how to do it so here it is :-)
If you have any questions, fire away!!!
That's called fully handmade. Respect and love my dear brothers and sisters of Ghana. God bless you 🙏
Thank you men, trees, animals nature Thank you Mother Africa
those carvings are HAND made, it is perfect... its very spiritual.
Great documentation, excellent background music!
Tremendous amount of work to make one drum. I find it fascinating how they came up with the technique to tie up the cord to place stress on the skin head. That in itself would take a long time to learn properly. Amazing video. Great bunch of people to be around.
Amazing video
That's awesome to see you made djembe with your hands, and your teachers in the process))
Thanks for sharing!
No worries. I did as much as I could but the guys teaching me did an equal amount of work to help me recover from my mistakes. I would suggest for anyone that is interested, going and spending time with people who do this for a living is a valuable experience in many ways.
@@genkimusic i'd love to. You still playing that djembe you've made?
@@kateio3029 regularly. It's axtually my favourite one. Whilst I prefer larger ones, this one was made by drum makers and tuned by performers. I have not taken the time to tune my other djembes as well yet and so perhaps I should.
I should also mention, whilst they mostly make djembes here, the actual drum from this area is the kpanlogo. So they primarily taught me to play that. So, I prefer to play kpanlogo as I play it better.
@@genkimusic you have any videos of you playing kpanlogo? I never see that instrument
@@kateio3029 I will have to dig a video out. I have one somewhere that I would like to upload.
Learn the secrets so can appreciate it good work
Brasil ❤️ é xamanico! Gratidão africa
Nice work! Congratulation!
Wonderful!!
I think the things you want to complain about or the organics of the process and they are to be cherished not look at as flaws. ie the freehand drawing and nics. a machine didn’t make it
I enjoyed the scrolling writhing at the start, better than Rogue One imo... a good try but needed more Vader at the end
wow
Maybe I’m just new to African drum making, but not wearing shoes, to me, would seem like a bad idea. Wouldn’t you say?
Nice video, good work mate.
Thanks ever so much! More videos of the Nkabom Cultural Drum and Dance group coming soon...
Genki Music Yeah I thought so. Already subscribed.
Those tools are sharp! What kind of wood?
Nice Job. Congratulations
Wow, can I just say this looks easy but there's nothing holding the pieces still, they have a heavy sharp axe, cutting within milimeters of accuracy, and wearing open toed shoes.
Yeah, I almost took my leg off at one point. They get pretty skilled at it. The lack of tools has a lot to do with how little they get paid for each drum. The village only recently got clean water (maybe 5-10 years ago).
Ohh gawd. Scary sharp too
What size steel rod is that
Nice djembe made without any using machines..where is that country?
It is in a village called Okurase in Ghana
Loved to see the process! What kind of wood was used in your video? cheers :D
I honestly never asked. As a general rule, the harder the wood, the nice the tone. However, harder wood is more difficult to shape and the trees take longer to grow/replace so there is an ethical issue there. This is made of particularly soft, cheap wood but still sounds nice.
And which leather
They don’t even need any tools for measurements?!
They measure the top face, but that's it.
How long have you been making these drums?
I only made the 1 drum but the people teaching me here make the majority of drums that come out of Ghana
I just hope that other people's are making reforestation
frf fr mumis ong DrDT
He forgot to play it 🥱😴
STOP SHOWING THESE PEOPLE ALL YOUR STUFF . THEY WILL TAKE IT AND GET RICH AND YOU WILL BE BROKE .
A Djembé player would never play one of these drums. The wood isn't good enough, the carving is badish, so the result is very very poor. Djembés come from the Mandé exclusively. The drums coming out from Ghana can't be called djembés.
stéphane sublet Why not? The djembe is centered around a lot of Ghanaian music like Mandjani
Do you know what is a Mendiani?? Well there's none in Ghana. The truth is that Ghana as no cultural or historical interest in Djembés tradition. It's just a business matter, that's why there's no djembé master in this country. Now I know there's amazing drummers as well, but on different instrument.
Hahaha it’s funny
When I was looking at this drum being built I remember when I had first started learning the skill of djembe repair
When ever someone brought one of those to be fixed my teacher would just hold his head when they left because it’s so much work to correct the mistakes of that type of build.
It’s meant to create the final product to sell and that’s it , trying to go back and do maintenance on those types of djembe builds is something the makers never expect to do or care for.
No. That's probably the only exporter u can find.. lol