High Hat Drum Tips : High Hat Drum Beats: Two-Handed 16th Notes

Our next high hat pattern will also involve using sixteenth notes, but we're going to split them up among two hands. So rather than oney and a twoey and, we're…

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Snare Drum Double Beat Variations : Isolated Double Drum Beats: Stroke 1, Left Hand

Here is double left stroke one. So now we're going to be putting the double on the alternate hand, the left hand. The second stroke in total, but the first…

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Djembe Drum Tightening & Lacing : Djembe Drum Tightening: Using Scissors

Okay, so now get your scissors and we're going to take off any excess hair. You may have done this when your skin was wet, just to make it dry…

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Djembe Drum Care : Djembe Drum Bags: Bag Fabrics

O.k., so to start with your bag you need some fabric. This is a quilted fabric so it's two sided. Sometimes they're reversible and they have some crazy stuff on…

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Djembe Repair: Knotting the Rings : Djembe Repair: Knot Spacing

So you're going to keep doing this knot all the way around. It's easy to kind of mess it up and do it backwards so make sure that the, you…

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Djembe Drum Ring Repairs : Djembe Drum Rings: Fabric

So now take the fabric that you've chosen to wrap your rings and you can just put a little snip in the end, an inch or so wide, a little…

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Djembe Drum Tightening & Lacing : Djembe Drum Tightening: Lacing

So, now you want to take a good look at the head of your drum. If you have a high spot, be careful here, because this is just the fur…

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Djembe Drum Ring Repairs : Djembe Drum Rings: About

So in this series we're going to talk to you about, everything about rings that you'll need to know. About the different kinds of bottom rings you may encounter weather…

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Djembe Repair: Knotting the Rings : Djembe Repair: Matching Knots on the Bottom & Top Rings

Okay, now we're going to get ready to do the bottom ring. So you already have your piece of rope cut to size, so now count your ring, count your…

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