Tag: belize drums
Garifuna Drum Making in Belize
Learn all about the way Garifuna drums are made in Belize! Drum making lessons at Warasa show you the basics of making a Garifuna drum. Help us with some of the key steps: chisel, plane and sand a solid log into shape, prepare the ropes, jungle vine rings or wooden pins that fix the deerskin…
Garifuna Drums of Belize and the Caribbean
Here at Warasa we make Garifuna drums by hollowing out solid trunks of hardwood. Garifuna drums are genuine solid wood drums with no joins or glue The hollow is traditionally started by burning hot coals in the centre of the trunk, but these days, unless some termites have chewed out a hollow for us, it…
Drums of the ancestors
Listening to many Garifuna songs, they are very up-tempo. My Scottish indie-rock loving music tastes assumed that they must therefore be quite cheerful – maybe about catching lots of tasty fish a particular day. But that’s not how Garifuna music works – there is a particularly up-tempo Garifuna punta song that is all about when…