Good luck, remember, get it stretched scary tight. You can tune them with knots etc in the string. And take your time on the decoration. It's your drum and will hopefully be around a long long timeI got it! It's a gourd, so I have to decorate it somehow. I don't know if I'll stain it, wood burn it, paint a design....still trying to figure that out. And yes, it came with *choke* goat skin.