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    So I've seen various acoustic groups use a handhelds drum and brushes but I haven't been able to find anything on youtube besides either regular snare drum or the cajone. I'm wondering if one would just take regular drumming techniques and adapt it or if it'd be a different ball of wax. Any examples on line would be awesome.

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    There is an LP video somewhere with Stanton Moore demonstrating his signature Pandeiro, and at the end there was a great brush segment. I don't remember what the video was, but I think it was at NAMM or PASIC if you look through LP's videos...

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    Thanks!

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    I'm playing brushes and hot rods on a djembe pretty regularly now. Started another band project and the kit for it is 22"x18" bass drum, 14" tom, 14" djembe, and a 10"x6" side snare. I was using my hand strung djembe at first, but decided that if the head couldn't handle it, it was a lot of work to replace it, so I switched to a Remo Djembe with a synthetic head and quick tuning. I put it right in front of me and play it like a snare. It is a lot of fun and really changes the feel of a song. Just make sure you use nylon brushes so you don't damage the head of a hand percussion drum. I don't have any video yet, but will post it as soon as I do.
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    there are a lot of YouTube vids with djembes being played with brushes
    Here is one
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUZawCTs2iU

    A whole different approach

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ypyf--joY

    Then if you are a Jen Lowe/LP fan

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhqC3kFLE3I

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    I found this of a Bodhran player using brushes:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4IjdiVyCX8

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    Here are a few which may be of interest to you:


    Florian Alexandru-Zorn playing brushes on frame drums


    Rónán Ó Snodaigh plays the Bodhrán with brushes and explains his technique (towards the end)


    Frame drum solo using brushes - not in a kit set up


    The guy who played the solo above explaining his brush technique
    Last edited by Grace :); 06-06-2013 at 08:01 PM.

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    Thanks! That Bodhran player was off the hook!

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    Check out clayton cameron's "living art of brushes"
    its a new bible ,,alot based on old soft shoe dancers...
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    I normally don't do brush work on hand drums, but I've tried them on bongos and djembe and they work very nicely (and a darn sight better than sticks, which to me is a bit of overkill)!

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    This guy takes it to a new level altogether.....not!

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    Also- Try LP one shot finger shakers. You have cajon snare sound.
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    Here I am playing a kanjira drum from India, with brushes. No doubt traditional Indian kanjira players would frown on this, and maybe karma will get me for trying it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQnKPklVTg

    Nuthin' fancy... just comping along with my troubadour friend Frank J.

    Kanjira is a neat little drum ... fish skin head, and a single tambourine jingle in the frame. Use a little bit of water on the head to get it to the desired pitch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JoePasko View Post
    Here I am playing a kanjira drum from India, with brushes. No doubt traditional Indian kanjira players would frown on this, and maybe karma will get me for trying it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQnKPklVTg

    Nuthin' fancy... just comping along with my troubadour friend Frank J.

    Kanjira is a neat little drum ... fish skin head, and a single tambourine jingle in the frame. Use a little bit of water on the head to get it to the desired pitch.


    Good stuff

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    I've never expiremented with brushes not on regular drums. I'll have to try some now

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    When I play a drum with brushes (which is almost 100% in the bluegrass band), I really feel as though the brushes are the instrument, and whatever drum is more or less just an amplifier. I prefer Vater Wire-Taps (metal) and Vater Poly-Flex (nylon). Both are wood-handled. I'll frequently play with one of each.

    I use the retractable style brushes on my washboard, for a poor-man's snare drum sound. Flip them around and us the wire loops for the zydeco sound. Or mix and match: left hand brush, right hand loop.

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    I tricked out an old stool for the expressed purpose of playing small hand drums with brushes. I added a lower deck to stash a second drum (there is a pandeiro in this picture), so I can swap them around. Also bolted in a cigar box, mid-level, to put small hand percussion.

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