r/djembe

This will be my first djembe. I don't have a budget, I just want it to be high quality and made of solid wood / animal hide if possible, but I'm open to any suggestions as long as it gives me that deep, booming bass when you hit the center of the drum. Thank you in advance

I’m looking at options, and trying to learn how to adjust the sound of this drum for deeper bass. I’m considering using weather strip in a spiral pattern inside the drum, and a small piece near the edge of the head, as seen in a video.

My main of this post is, I’d like to see what I can do with it with key tuning first, but I’m a little nervous, as a novice.

The sound is very even when tapping lightly around the edge of the drum, but anywhere I hit it, it has that high pitch that remo is apparently known for. I just want to dampen that and bring out the bass.

Any advice from those who’ve done what I’m trying to do would be helpful.

Hey guys and girls, I just opened to the public djembegorilla.com. It's my baby, I have been working on it for three years to have a framework that provides the tools I wanted to have for my playing and facilitating, and that I couldn't easily find elsewhere.

It offers rhythms for djembe and West African ensemble, with notation and an audio player to mute any instruments you want left out, activate the swing if you wish, and change the tempo. The rhythms are West African but also translations from other cultures, and wherever possible they include references to teachers, books, and other materials that have more info on them.

There is also a rhythm builder, so you can easily test to your own needs.

The website is still growing. I am working on more tools at the moment, and there are a lot of rhythms to review and input, but I believe it to be already useful. It is, at least, to me.

If you have any comments or requests, I am all ears. Cheers!

djembegorilla.com