Teacher Resources

Many objects in your home can be used as a percussion instrument. Here is a short video of a few sounds that I found in my home.  

I often talk a little about West African geography when sharing about the djembe drum with my students.  It goes something like this: “The djembe drum originated in Mali, West Africa.  Texas is slightly bigger than France, but Mali is two times the size of Texas!  The djembes that we are playing today were made

Click the photo below to see a slide show of pictures from David’s recent trip to Senegal during Spring Break of 2018!

Click the picture below to see some photos of David’s 2016 trip to Senegal!

Click on the photo below to see pictures from David’s trip to Ghana & Senegal in 2014.

Watch the video below to see an artisan in Ghana carve a giraffe design into the drum.

Here is a short video of David replacing the goat skin on a djembe.  It is very time consuming work!  This drum took 2.5 hours  to put the new drum head on.    

Click the photo below to view a slide show from David’s first two trips to Senegal in 2006 & 2007.