Some shaky footage of our latest drumming gig....

[mustangclaire]

Apologies for the slightly poor quality but here are some clips of my latest drumming gig with my band Muso Bango. I'm at the far left as you look at the line up Just thought i'd post as some of you have been kind enough to watch before and ask if there were more clips.


On this one, i'm giving myself the usual bruises on my leg using my Shakira (shaker)... it's covered in tiny shells, that help the noise, but not my legs

This is my favourite rhythm.. I do play it also but it really is best suited to only 2 drummers, hence rest of us on percussion.

This was the first one we played that night.

 

[Haunted]

 

[Spideyman]

Excellent! Thank you for sharing.

 

[Moderator]

Thanks for sharing! Looks like a lot of fun both performing and being part of the audience.

 

[Shoe]

Woohoo! That was awesome! Thanks for sharing! I Love hand percussions ka!

 

[mustangclaire]

Thanks guys. Sorry for the poor quality, it's only audience members who record really. One day we will get a proper one done . I do enjoy performing, and my band mates are such good friends.

 

[king family fan]

Thats awesome. Thanks for sharing

 

[Sundrop]

Cool drumming!!!

 

[kingzeppelin]

Nice one, to quote AC/DC "girls got rhythm"

 

[Dana Jean]

That is just great! Can you tell us more about the drums? I'm assuming that the size of the drum and the tightness of the skin affects the tone, so are they "tuned" and how do you do that? I'm assuming everyone's drum has a different sound because of the drum and the player. How did you learn to do this? And how did you guys find each other? So fun!

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Now I’ve got Bango envy. My drum is a bit smaller than yours and plain black... And I don’t sound nearly as good as ya’ll pounding away on them.

Mine's been collecting dust lately.

 

[mustangclaire]

They are West African drums, called Djembe's. Brace yourself Dana, they are covered in

Spoiler

goat

skin. The tone is determined by the knots in the rope you can see that go around the base. To tune it up, you bang the rim of the drum with a wooden mallet moving the knots along a little. I've just had my drum re-skinned. They are hollow, and the noise comes out the base (that is why they are played normally tilted between the legs sitting down, we got stands for performances). The lady on the far right (the amazing one) taught my boy drumming at school. I went along to watch, and joined her evening class. Out of the class she chose me to join her, and has picked the others over time also and formed our band. Thank you for your interest. I always have to stand at the end of the line as I am the only left handed player... I always look the untidy one!

That is just great! Can you tell us more about the drums? I'm assuming that the size of the drum and the tightness of the skin affects the tone, so are they "tuned" and how do you do that? I'm assuming everyone's drum has a different sound because of the drum and the player. How did you learn to do this? And how did you guys find each other? So fun!

 

[Dana Jean]

They are West African drums, called Djembe's. Brace yourself Dana, they are covered in

Spoiler

goat

skin. The tone is determined by the knots in the rope you can see that go around the base. To tune it up, you bang the rim of the drum with a wooden mallet moving the knots along a little. I've just had my drum re-skinned. They are hollow, and the noise comes out the base (that is why they are played normally tilted between the legs sitting down, we got stands for performances). The lady on the far right (the amazing one) taught my boy drumming at school. I went along to watch, and joined her evening class. Out of the class she chose me to join her, and has picked the others over time also and formed our band. Thank you for your interest.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW hell no.

 

[mustangclaire]

Sorry...

 

[Dana Jean]

Sorry...

Why can't you use cockroach skin? Surely there is some skin under all that exoskeleton. Sew those little roach jackets together and you have a drum that could survive a nuclear bomb. Because, as they say, who will survive a nuclear bomb? Cockroaches and Cher. And your drums.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Sis Boom Bah

Spoiler

The sound of mustangclaire’s sizzling hot drum play on those stretched goat skins. (well close enough to goat anyway )

 

[mustangclaire]

Sis Boom Bah

Spoiler

The sound of mustangclaire’s sizzling hot drum play on those stretched goat skins. (well close enough to goat anyway )

Dust yours off and play it!

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Dust yours off and play it!

Will do... Next time I want to inflect torture on someone. Far more effective than waterboarding! I call her "Cheney."

 

[GNTLGNT]

...Bravo!....now you need to figure out how to do that when you're touring in your Mustang...set your own soundtrack!...

 

[cat in a bag]

How fun that looks! Is it a great stress reliever?