Djembe drum lessons at Afrovibe Backpackers

This is my drum lessons:

We get together at Afrovibe Backpackers in George every Sunday night from 5h00PM
And I teach some rythms.

Here are some pics from last sunday....


keep checking...more to come soon!!!!

My Sister Tiffany

My sister showing off her rythm...

Love ya tiffs

new base rythm

try this at home

Bev, her son-in-law and I

playing 2 djembes at the same time

yup I seem to have managed to get these rythms right...

Bev's rythm

My friend Bev...jamming at her house in East London

jam session

I had a kiff jam session with my brother and a friend.
I didn't have a drum with me so I ended up playing a coffee tin....

Richard Pipe

My good friend and drumming mentor is Richard Pipe from East London
reskinned my djembe for me with a senegalise goatskin

This clip was taken in front of Macdonalds in George

and more....

We met this Great musician, a operatic singer, Evan.
We didn't know the songs he could sing so we ended up just randomly singing notes,but it sounded o.k

more Monks clipz

playing more than one djembe at a time

This is at a party at Monk's in Wilderness.

My brother and a friend have formed a band...the next time I have a chance I will upload some mp3 tracks,for now though here are some vidz

Monk's party with my brother

Hi There....

Recently I had an amazing jam session(turned into party) at Monk's in Wilderness, South Africa.

It was Myself,My Brother Cole and a long time friend,Auret Van Heerden.
Me on my Djembe's,Cole on Guitar and Auret on bass....Tho we all had a turn to jam each others instruments.

I apologize for the quality of the video's but I'm using a small 2mp Nokia camera phone(If anybody wants to donate a cheap digital camera to the website, it would be greatly appreciate it)

Hi to all.....

Hi,

I am sooooo sorry that I have been neglecting my site for a while...been away to eastern cape(photies coming soon)

Here's a few new updates......

Drum Lesson....in the car!

Sometimes I like to sit in my car with the windows rolled up...

The base of the drum resonates sooo nicely in such a small space.
I also find that teaching yourself to play in such a limited space gets your wrists to naturally do what you want them to do...

Try it, and let me know if you get the same effect.

P.S
Forgive the sound just a little bit...vid was taken with my cellphone

Drumming at Cactus,South Africa

I enjoyed playing a couple of rythms at Cactus,a mexican restuarant and pub in George,South Africa...unfortunately the owner didn't enjoy it as much as the rest of the people there, so I had to can it after a couple of rythms...

Muhammid....Sorry it took so long!!!

Hey there,

This is Muhammid.

He was at Zanzibar(Club in South Africa) when I bumped into him.

All the way from Egypt, heres Muhammid

Drumming at Zanzibar club in S.A

Hi there,

I LOVE my drums...I take them wherever I go.
As you can imagine, lots of other people love them too...so I get to play in all sorts of places.

This is a club in George,South Africa called Zanzibar...here are a couple of clips for you(Hope to see you there sometime...)

AND SUM MORE...

This clip has got My brother Cole(guitar) My friends Dane(guitar) and Auret(guitar)
Jamming at the Botanical Gardens in George.

You may not believe this but we had never even played together before...we all just jelled so gr8 tho.

Hi all, I managed to get a cable for my phone so heres a few clips I would like to share with you...

This is my buddy Dane, we were just chillin...note the slippers... and jamming along.

I loved this tune so much it is currently my cellular phones ringtone.

KEEP WATCHING THIS SPACE...NEW STUFFS COMING SOON!!!

Hello to all, and a heartfelt thenx for your patience.

I have not got a digital camera anymore and that has been a real bad loss as I am struggling to upload new clips.

Hopefully I have managed to arrange a data cable for my Nokia 6600 cellular phone, and next week Sunday I will be uploading all sorts of stuffs from my phone.

Once again...please feel free to e-mail me pics and vid clips and I will only be too happy to share them with the rest of us fellow drummers...or send it to me via facebook, just look for "danmish"

Thankyou
Daniel Nicholson of "djembedrumparadise"

I MISSSSSS HAVING A COMPUTER

Hi there to all....

I apologize that I have not added anything to this blog in a while....don't worry tho' cos I have not forgotten it, I have just had a temporary setback.

Please bear with me until further notice.

And please remember to e-mail me clips or pics of you doing your thing, and I will post them up as well.

Thankyou again....keep posted
Daniel Nicholson