Djembe

• Striking the skin with the palm and fingers toward the drum's centre produces a bass note; striking the skin near the rim (with the fleshy part of the palm just above the rim) Djembe produces the tone and slap

• The tone must ring by striking like it's a hot pan
• Beginners may think of the tone and slap as fingers "together" and "apart." Advanced players will not take the extent to make that obvious physical change, but rather make a less visibly obvious change from "focused" to "dispersed."

Written transcriptions of rhythms tend to be imprecise. Unusually only the principal flash of the rhythm is transcribed but the essential motor response that it carries can't be put down on a essay bona fide easily.