African music

African music
African music is extremely lively, colourful and fun. It is used in so many occasions such as; weddings, funerals, birthdays.

African drumming
In African music, the drum is considered to be the most important of all the instruments. It controls the rhythm. The drummer cant create different beats to symbolise different things. For example, a slow beat, could be used for funerals, and different beats for religion as well. There are hundreds of drums in Africa but the most common drum is one called the djembe. This is a single-head instrument shaped liked a globet and is made in a range of sizes to produce different pitches.

Instruments.
Kalimbas Marimbas Drums

Nyanga pan pipes

And so many more.

More
Solid instruments
Rattles Bells Mbira Xylophone Clap sticks Slit gongs Stamping tubes

Wind instruments
Flutes Ocarinas Panpipes Horns Trumpets Pipes Whistle

String instruments
Zithers Lutes Lyres Musical bows

Glossary
Donno hourglass shaped talking drum held under the arm and played with the band. Dundun double headed drum played with sticks. Tone language In African music, language made up of only a few pitches, called tone languages. The pitch level determines the meaning of the words. Membranophones Category of instruments that have a drum skin. Vocables Effects made by the voice, using vowel sounds such as eh, ah, and oh.