How to Tune a Djembe, Rope Tuning Instructions - X8 Drums
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- www.X8Drums.com Learn how to tune your rope tuned djembe. Kenya Masala will show you step by step instructions on how to create diamonds with the extra rope on your drum in order to tighten the drum head. He also explains what a tuned djembe should sound like as well as advanced instructions on how to create a second row of diamonds for drums that need extra tightening. Lastly you will learn how to re-wrap the extra rope around your drum once you finish tuning.
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After watching your video I feel empowered to tune my own drum versus paying someone. Thank you so much for such a visually clear concise step by step video‼️
Great job! You are a good speaker. Pleasant to listen to. Easy to understand. Your instructions are clear and well illustrated.
Who else was waiting for him to play the drum at the end of the video?
What an excellent tutorial! Made nice and simple...takes all of the fear out of tuning! Thanks so much for this!
YES! I finally know the proper way to tune my rope djembes. Outstanding, many thanks!
Hey guys, thanks so much for this great video! I have been putting off tuning my drum for 6 months because I was tired of paying someone to do it for me but afraid to do it myself. You made it so easy and I have a delicious sounding drum again!!!!
thanks for the video!.. pulled 10 diamonds on my new toca freestyle 2 synthetic drum and it converted it from sounding dull and ringing ringing to alive and crisp! almost sounds like my wula drum now . who knew tuning could make such a big difference? was afraid to try but your video gave me the courage. much easier than it seems
I have played my Djembe for 60 years that I got from Africa and I never had to tune it and it still has perfect pitch as heard on my video's
Thank you for this tutorial. I was able to grasp the basics of how to tune my djembe. Cant wait to put it to good use.
I am still using this video to teach my students how to tune .
😁🤘 Thank you
Thank you for demonstrating this livel ! I got a jembe that need titening & am thankful for this info ! give thanks ! .
Awesome! Followed your demonstration step-by-step and tuned my son's djembe! He's so pleased about that!
Excellent Lesson my brother, thank you!
Thank you so much! Im so proud to finally starting to tune the djembe myself!!
Thanks for the tuning lesson, great job!
I was looking for how to do this, great info and well explained! Sweet!
Thank you for a first class Tutorial on how to tune your drum.
Great job, sir. Your instructions are very easy to understand and follow.
Great rule of thumb = "Over 2, under 1" AWESOME!!
Best one I've seen so far. Clarifies a fairly strange concept for someone who's carried a drum key on his key chain for 50 years ,-]
Great video, perfectly clear, totally helpful. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Really helpful, nice and simple!
You are a very good teacher, thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
What a lesson. Thanks very much for this lesson on how to tune a djembe drum. I practised on mine and I got a different good correct sound. Bravo !
Nomthandazo
Thanks so much!! Didn’t think I’d be able to do this on my own!
Easy to understand and put into practice. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the really good instructions on rope tuning of hand drums.
Excellent video! Thorough and helpful. Thanks!
Thank you for the tutorial. I hadn't tuned a drum in years and my BF's djembe needed a handful of knots to sweeten the sound.
this was perfect...i was taught once but needed a refresher...thank you =)
Excellent tuning instructions, Thank You!
Very good tutorial, thanks! cheers from Brazil
Thank you, I borrowed a friends drum and it was so flat. I needed a refresher in tuning and this was perfect. Now I can return it sounding sweet.
Thanks for the tutorial! Really simple and direct! Gracias!
Thank you so much for these videos!
...much thanks bruddha! added few diamonds and the sound cannon is hitting nice n tight!! bless!
gr8 video demo very easy to follow. my djembe sounds super good now!! thanx!
Great tutorial! Thanks!
Kenya,
As you've shown me this before (on stage... right before I popped it); it's good to see your video. Hope all is well with you and yours; appreciate your being a positive role model.
Thank you so much ! Perfectly explained !! :)
Top marks for clearly demonstrating how to tighten a rope djembe. I was avoiding the project, now I will tighten/tune with ease when needed. NOW, do one on replacing the vertical rope.
Update: I suggest using a (white) rubber hammer to loosen the adhesion, between skin head and the wooden drum rim, before you begin weaving a tune.
Thx, this worked really well for me.
Thank's for this info I gave my 4 yr. old a Dejembe drum for his Birthday and he was so excited .
Great lesson I'm rope tuning. Thanks I got it now
Fantastic video. Very helpful.
Very helpful, thank you!
I can't wait to try this
this literally just convinced me to buy a fiberglass, key tuned djembe, perfect!
Rope tuned is the way to go
There are also key tuned wooden djembes. They sound So much better.
I have both, and the key tune is easier to tighten, but I think the rope tuned will give a much more balanced tension on the head.
Thanks for the video mate!
awesome video!!!
Thanks for the video, I'm definitely looking for a key tuned djembe now :----D
Awesome instruction... Thanks!💯
This was excellent. Thanks!
awesome! crongrats dude!
Great job! Thank you
Perfect explanation. Thanks
Thank you - my djembe was starting to lose its luster - this was very easy to understand!
TO UN-TUNE -- Pass a stick under the last horizontal weave, wiggle and pull it around a little bit to loosen that weave and undo those 2 twisted verticals (makes a sharp snap). Then pass the free end of the rope back from under verticals 2 & 1. Pull the loose bit out from there all the way until the last bit is 'stuck' under the tension of these verticals. Then give it one hard, sharp tug in the same direction, and the last stuck bit will snap out. Do this backwards for each weave as required.
Nice tutorial, X8 Drums! Tuning rope djembes is really way, way easier and quicker than it looks. :)
Wow, this was never tought at KIPP Sankofa Charter School. We killed it at the Drum and Dance Assemble, forever Buffalo
this literally helped me tune my djembe lol thanks dude
+Noah Orcutt Could you literally hear the difference with your literal ears?
Thanks so much for the tutorial! Worked like a charm. It would be cool as well to how to use the excess slack at the end to tie into a handle type of thing. I see in the video your drum already has one at the top (a little loop handle).
great tutorial bro!
well done, thank you!
thank you very helpful!
Very well explain 😁👏🏼thanks
Great video, THANX!!!!
good video my man!
thank you. very helpful
Wow thank you dude!!!!
Your tutorials are great. Thank you.
Excellent!!! Asante sana (Thank you very much)!
It finally seems to be working!!
Can’t be anything better than this
Gracias, afinado! listo para darle!
cheers dude!
Thank you so much !!!
thanks man! I have a small one and this helped a lot. should I detune it. if I don't play it much? also, what do I put on the Goat Skin to keep it smooth?
very helpful...thx
Great video! How do I get the "diamonds" nice LOW on the drum? They tend to stay higher up than I would like.
Thanks man! The djembe i bought in senegal was sounding really low
When you rope tune a traditional djembe,the vertical pull ropes are the equivalent of lugs on a mechanical tuned djembe, conga, snare,etc. Most premium traditional djembe have between 27 to 35 vertical rope pulls.Try to find any mechanically tuned drum with 30 lugs per head,lol.Actually,a traditional rope tuned djembe/drum is a more sophisticated way of tuning a drum.
Thank you!!!!!
Excellent example
Thanks
Thanks!
I have a small djembe and the bass sound is like muted but the leather is pretty stretched.Also it has no extra rope for tuning what can I do?
How do I get the initial tension correct, before making the diamonds? My drum has an uneven tone
As we create more diamonds does it become more difficult to pull them lower? I'm on a second row and it is starting to look uneven (they arent all pulled down to the bottom)
Do all djembe’s take their own amount of rope to be tuned? For say if they were all at the same pitch would they have different amounts of rope used in tuning?
Which drum is this, Kenya? Size/brand/name? I love the sound. Just the right amount of bass that I like.
Great instructions ! You are a gifted teacher and speaker . Excellent tutorial ~ thank you 😊
thank you
If I want to tune just a little bit, is it possible to make just 2 or 3 diamonds? Don't you have to go along in every row?
Isn't there goning to be a tension problem?
what happens when you need to change the head? What do you do with the knots on the top by the drum head?
How many knots can I put in at one time without risking to rupture the skin? And then how much time do I need to wait until I tune it again?
What if you want something in between, could you skip one in between?
so...how far around do you go...just until you are happy with the sound? can you over tighten?
thank you finally i tune my djambe after lazy times ahahha
What model is that djembe if i may ask.
Does it matter of where you start? Left to right or right to left?
Hi. Where is this drum in your website? I cant find it.