• There are many drum circles going on.Be aware there are different focuses that are explored

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    • To connect to others that drum, here are a few ideas.

    1. Go to yahoo groups, meetup.com, and Tribe.net and search for drum and drumming there are over 400 listings and it may take a bit to find the right one for you.

    2. check drumcicles.net for a drum circle near youdrumcircles.net http://drumcircles.net/

    3.check out drums on the web athttp://www.drumsontheweb.com/DOTWpages/Drumkeypages/drumcirclehome.html

    4.Note that there is a circle every Sunday afternoon in Golden Gate park in San Francisco ; Liberty park in Salt Lake; Edmon g. Fein park 2nd and Arapaho in Boulder; Just on campus off Telegraph in Berkley. And others like it I will post here as I find out about them.

    5.Check out sacredfirecommunity.org where a "Fire Circle acknowledges the sacredness of fire and these regular gatherings bring the blessings of fire into our lives. Through the fire circle we find ourselves connecting to the warmth in our hearts, in nature and in our lives." http://www.sacredfirecommunity.org/connecting.html

    6. Check out this hippy web ring

    Hippies Peace WebRing


    7. Search free drum circles on the web

    8. I have listed some emails I have recieved with contacts from these areas I am more familiar with

  • From the Front Range in CO

  • For the Southern Oregon area

  • Drummin around the Bay area

  • Drummin around Ashville NC

  • Drum circles in Ohio/Northern KY
  • DRUM BEATS TO EXPLORE AND PLAY ALONG WITH
  • Capitols indicate dominant hand and subscript indicates subdominant hand playing. You must pick up the intonations from the sound. These are short sound bites played for 99 loops. I can apriciate any comments and donations.
  • B,b,T,t,T,t,T,t,T,t,T,t
  • B,B,T,t,T,B,T,t,T for Belly Dancers

  • B,B,T,t,T, or B,B,T,t,t,t,T This has five beats to the measure some say seven and may be difficult at first

  • B,t,T,b,T,t This is the basic 6 8 pattern known as the mother beat.

  • B,B,T,t,T,t,B,b,t,t,T Note this beat has three left or subdominant hand beats. There is a difference in the sound of the left and right hand beating the drum; resonance can occure more easily if those playing together know the basal pattern

  • B,t,T,t,S,t The root of this beat is the dominant hand shifting center to edge in three beats Base,Tone,Slap while the subdominant hand strikes alternatly at the edge

  • B,T,t,t,T,t

  • T,t,T,B,T,t,T,t,T,B


  • Base,Base,tone,Tone This has a native ameriican root