Archive for July, 2011
Drum Tables – Add A Tribal Flair To Your Room
With the next Indiana Jones movie coming out soon, there is a resurgence of a love for all things adventurous. That doesn’t just translate into movies and books, but into all aspects of life. Often as a blockbuster takes to the big screen, furniture follows. After the success of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, furniture stores couldn’t keep enough nautical and pirate items on the shelves. That trend is still hot, but it is soon to be replaced by more broad-spectrum adventure décor.
This may have you looking around your house, trying to decide what you already have that will go with the theme, and what you really need to add to make your room scream ‘adventure’.
How To Tune Drums The Easy And Correct Way – Free Drum Tuning Guide
Easy Step-By-Step Drum Tuning
Tuning a drum set can be very, very easy if you know how to and understand the simple concepts in tuning drums. Drums come in all shapes, sizes and construction and really what is the point in spending $100s if not $1,000′s of dollars on a drum set if you they don’t sound good. This article will give you the insight on how to tune your drums quickly and easily.
STEP 1 – Buy All New Drum Heads
Out Of Africa – African Drums and Masks for Unique Home Accents
To have a whole room in an African style would be not only unusual, but of tremendous interest to a lot of people. It would be great to able to point out the significance of this African mask, or in what celebration that African drum was used. So if you want to be popular . . .
African masks are made out of all sorts of material from animal hides to metal and wood, and are much sought after artefacts in the art world. They can be traced as far back as the Palaeolithic period, up to 300,000 years ago, and while masks of these great ages are not available to you or I, there are still many antique masks on sale at very good prices.
Rhythm Ambassador: Bringing Traditional African Drumming to America
Bringing Ivory Coast Drumming to America
I’ve been fascinated with rhythm as far back as I can remember. I recently saw an old family video taken when I was two years old, tapping my spoon against the table between bites of Cheerios. It wasn’t until attending my first drum circle many years later (and after scores of annoyed grade school teachers), that I finally found a home for my incessant banging.
A strange and unexplainable sense of calm and entrancement can come over you at the peak of a communal rhythm. You don’t have to speak with the stranger sitting next to you to get to know them; everyone in the circle is communicating with rhythm. In that moment, everyone is at total peace with each other.