Objectives
• Make a drum using various found materials, such as water bottles and balloons
• Make a shaker
• Practice Rhythms
Drum Elements
• Body– Shallow – frame drum– Deep – barrel drum
• Membrane– Single– Double
• Attachment
• Decoration
cardboard drums
Drum Examples
coffee cuica(friction drum from Brazil)
water drum(water inside the drum
changes its tone)(Native American)
Sources of Drum Bodies• Plastic bottles
• Tin cans
• Cookie tins
• Flower pots
• Wooden kegs
• Round cardboard containers
• Pots, pans, salad bowls or other stuff from the kitchen
Sources of Drumheads• Broken drumheads from music stores• Paper
– 2 thicknesses of wrapping paper glued together– Cardboard– Heavy wrapping paper with cheesecloth attached over it
with shellac– Patapar cooking paper (available at department stores
and used in cooking?)• Cloth
– Canvas, heavy duck, canvas substitutes– Leather, fake leather (a heavy plastic)– Heavy linen
• Plastic bags• Rubber inner tubes (from tires)• Balloons
Make a Drum Usinga Water Bottle
• Cut the flat end off the water bottle• The drum head should use a material that doesn’t break too
easily so you can hit it without destroying the drum• Test the material you want to use for the drum head by
stretching it tightly over the open end of the bottle and hitting it – pull it a little tighter if you don’t get a good sound at first– Balloon– Piece of heavy plastic
• Carefully cut a round drum head and make the circle a little larger than the opening in the bottle
• Carefully glue the drum head tightly to the body of the drum and wait for the glue to dry before you hit the drum– The drum head should be pretty tight to get a good sound
• To make a double-headed drum you can cut off the other end of the water bottle and put a drum head on it
Shakers
• Make a shaker by putting some beans or rice in a small water bottle
double-sided drumswith external rattles