Homemade Percussion

Homemade percussion tells you, for example, how to make musical instruments from, for example, a colander, and other miscellaneous household bowls, or perhaps water jugs. Seriously. Instruments, made out of those water-fountain-size water bottles, that you can make music with. Really. Real music. As evidenced by Water Ritual 6" (see this for more.)

It's only after you've had all the fun of inventing a junkyard sport that you're ready for the fun of playing it. Really ready. Because it's your game, don't you know. And I think it's the same thing with homemade instruments. You make them. And what you play on them is somehow in some way uniquely and entirely yours. So you want to make them better. Same thing with a junkyard sport. The more fun it proves to be, the more time and care people take in creating it again. After a while, it all tends to get very, well, exotic. Like the Ceramic/fishskin Hibachi drum, for example, and the group Boomwhacker.

Homemade percussion is but a section of the Rhythmweb. Stu explains: "From the Mid-East to Australia, and from South Africa to Europe to New Orleans to Brazil to Papua, New Guinea, musicians are connecting. Truly, rhythm is a universal language, love of music a universal love...Our mission is to further the use of rhythm, music, and percussion & related arts as a healing tool." The result: a resonantly rich resource.



thanks J-Walk