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African drums, djembe, drumming holidays in Gambia, West Africa

Free 'pdf' drum lessons, an interactive drumset, videos and more! Home to percussion artist/educator Mark Powers.

Free music lessons, mp3, QuickTime and pdf files from Berklee College of Music.

The jembe is on the verge of achieving world status as a percussion instrument, rivaled in popularity perhaps only by the conga and steel pan.

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At Gambian Griot you can learn to play kora, balaphone and drums. We also teach westafrican dance. The school is located in Serrekunda, The Gambia.

At this site you will find info and Arabic Music Scores Literally, 'ud means 'twig', 'flexible rod' or 'aromatic stick', and by inference 'piece of wood'. In Ibn Khaldun (14th century), 'ud denoted the plectrum of the lute called barbat. The etymology of the word has occasioned numerous commentaries, among them Farmer's alluring thesis that the Arabs adopted the term to differentiate the instrument, with its wooden sound-table, from the similar Persian barbat, whose belly is covered with skin.