How to Play the 4 Elements on Drums 

Hi. There is no exact system in the universe. Like the medicine wheel changes with tribes the drum sounds like earth when open bass in Native American style and I go with that. Play as you wish of course.

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Yes. We reverse that in feeling energy of earth is bass open sound to resonate. Play as you wish of course.

Exactly. Having studied with Layne, this video is mistaken. Kah stroke is Earth and Dum stroke is Water.

Hi. Yes. I feel to reverse the Hamza el Din idea and play earth as open bass sound. Based on Native American teaching and my own research. Thanks

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Yes! This was Exactly what i thought....i learned the other way around. Dum = water and Kah= earth....

You are correct 😊

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It looks like a REMO drum, made in the US but available worldwide, depends where you live. I bought mine online from Germany.

That’s true

It’s the actual ocean.

Hi, I can answer that for you. Hamza el Din, a Nubian drummer, shared the concept of the elements relating to the strokes of the frame drum, to Layne. I never thought of him as her teacher, though. Her teacher was Glen Velez, and they went on to perform together.

Yes. hamsa El Din from San Francisco and Nibian

Yes I’m aware of that and put it in the description.

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I’m in Australia and had to buy from one of the local music stores here

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It’s a remo Renaissance frame drum 22 inch

She mentioned she was on the ocean, so I'll assume that's the actual ocean waves crashing.

Just the actual ocean

Yes - there are some traditions that teach it that way. To me - its more of a match the way I presented it - based on the sounds and energy of element to me. Thanks for watching it. The point here of course is connecting to the elements with your drum. However you hear and feel it. ashe!

I thought the video was cool, but I believe you changed the beat "WATER" to "EARTH". Just because the vibration of the EARTH element is static, and water suggests waves, precisely with the prolonged vibration beating.

Yes. Play as you feel it.

His name is Hamsa el Din, but he wasn’t exactly Layne’s teacher, she just learned the element’s relationships to the strokes of the drum: dum is water, kah is earth, toc is fire, and cha is air. He’s a wonderful and famous Nubian musician, you might wanna check him out!

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Hamda El Din who also plays oud

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Hi, I can answer that. On the jingled frame which is the tambourine, air is ‘cha’. On the frame drum without jingles, air is a brush stroke, brushing the pads of your fingertips up and down on the drum head, making a shhhhh sound. Hope this helps!

Cha…

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I thought the same thing. Even it's not ill intended, it lacks that honesty.

Yes it is indicated in the description. Thanks

The concept of relating the elements to the strokes of the frame drum, was passed to Layne Redmond by the famous Nubian musician Hamza El Din. Not an intellectually derived thing at all.