Drumin' workshop by Attila Baracsi

Tonight the Kent School of English organized an exotic Drumin’ workshop which contained trying to play on a traditional African musical instrument called djembe. We were together with an Austrian group. The man who explained what actually a djembe is, where it came from and helped how to make a sound with this kind of instrument was very funny and tried to make us comfortable in this situation. He knew a bit German so he welcomed the Austrian group in their own language. But he hasn’ t learnt any Hungarian yet. Nevertheless he asked us to help him, so we told him some words in our language like ‘thank you, welcome’. But he had difficulties with the pronunciation. After that we started to play, he showed some rhythms and we had to do the same. When we became ‘professional’ djembe players he asked some people to show a rhythm and everyone had to do the same. I was the last one who had to perform something but I’m not as good so I showed a very easy one.