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Volume 1
Djembe-L Mailing List Basics
How to Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Find Archives, data, information on mail format & Djembe-L netiquette.

* Drumming Listserv's
* ** Djembe-L Calendar Post your events
** Archives of past issues, Search Engines, & Translation Svcs
** Djembe-L Questions & Answers
*** Join Djembe-L Moderator Circle
***Posting Guidelines

Volume 2 -
FAQ Glossary

Djembe-L FAQ Glossary - do you have any "words, rhythms or terms to add"?

Learning Malinke aka SuSu & Other Languages

Volume 3 - Origin & Cultural Context of Hand Drums

* Eric Charry's Guide to the Jembe
Eric Charry's "Mande Music"
Map of Africa (12/00)
Guinea States (12/00)
* Historical Perspective on African Drumming
History of the Ashiko
* Bata Drums - An Overview of Santeria
** Collected posts from Fall 1996 on Race, Culture and Community
** Wooden Drums and Environmentalism
** Regarding Male & Female Genital Mutilation

Volume 4 -
Playing Basics & Beginner's Path, "FAST START!"

**** Beginner's Path, FAST START: understanding our rich djembe culture and its traditions
* Warm Up Exercises
* Do lickers - Warm Up Exercises - Another Vision
* Practice Tips
* Handing positions for djembe
* Slaps for djembe
* Posture for djembe
* Drummer's Equipment (04/00)
* What Kind of Tape to Use (12/00)

Volume 5 -
Rhythm Basics

* Clave and Bell Patterns
* Fankani - rhythms rhythms
* WAP rhythms
* Bembe Wheels -
Cycling the 6/8 Bell Pattern
* Djembe Hand Drum Notation Systems
* Discourse on Notation
* Link to African Music Encyclopedia
* Rhythm Catalog.
A collection of rhythms in simple notation for hand drum compiled by Larry Morris (new location 11-01)
* Background Info on Rhythms

Volume 6 Costumes, Adornments, Mask

* Cowrie Shells
* ksink-ksink (Guinea-jingles for djembe) -jingles for djembe)
* Orisa's (04/00)

Volume 7
Purchasing a Drum & Accessories

* Tips on Purchasing an African Made Djembe
* Tips on Purchasing a bag for your Djembe
** FAQ Shopping Mall
* How to Ship a Djembe (12/00)

Volume 8
Making Drums & Percussion Instruments

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** Drum Dimensions and Descriptions
* Table Of Drum Dimensions and Descriptions
* Ashiko Construction
** History of the Ashiko (08/03)
** Djembe Design
** Making djembes / ashikos - bowl shapes, lathe designs, bearing edges
* Djembe Bowl Shapes - a compilation of email
* Djembe Bearing Edges
* Djembe skin painting (08/03)
** How to Make a Shekere
* Growing Hard Shelled Gourds
* Balafon Tuning - a compilation of email from the members
* Making djun djuns
Sizing dundun rings
*Dununba Repair & Tuning (07/06)
* Dunun sticks

Volume 9:
Making, Maintaining and/or Repairing a Drum

*Repairing Cracks in Djembe (03/03)
* Tuning Djembe or Ashiko
*Reskinning Sabar12/02
**Pictures of tying knots (09/09/02)
* Link to: Pulling Diamonds Flip Book
* Djembe Rings - a compilation of email + Ring Maker
* Welding Rings (01/00)
** Drum Repair Resource (10/00)
** My drum has "bugs." What do I do?
** Goat Skins - everything you want to know about goat skins
**B. anthracis (the bacteria in Anthrax)
*Shaving skins
* Tips on Re-skinning a Djembe
* Link to: Re-skinning a Djembe
** Ringing Ears - how to eliminate ringing heads in ashiko & djembe
* How to Travel with Djembe
* Proven Method to Playing African Djembe in the Rain
* Oiling A Djembe
* How to make Linseed Oil?
* Djembe Overtones, ringing & pinging
* Djembe Rope & Verticals (12/99)
* Straps for your djembe or ashiko
* Stands for your Dununs
* Link to: Heading Hand and Frame Drums
* How to repair cracks in conga shell
* How to Refinish Conga Shells
* How to rehead Conga (Duplex) (01/01)
* How to Lace a Doumbek
* Pandeiro (frame drums)
* How to Tune a Remo Djembe
* More Thoughts on Remo Djembe
* Experimenting with Reinforced Mylar

Volume 10 - Who's Who in Djembe/Dunun/Dance

* International Djembe/Drum Teacher's Listing
* USA Djembe/Drum Teacher's Listing
* Dance Teachers Directory with links & videos
* Africa Workshops & Trips (04/01)
* USA African Dance & Drum Workshops
** See West African drumming and dance videos
** Links to W. African Drum Circles & local drum communities
* Djembe-L Members Pages - listing of Djembe-L subscribers (need to be a member to gain access to members pages)
* Global Drum & Dance Workshops
* French Interview with Mamady Keita
** What's a Master Drummer? *** Djembefola Passings

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