Frame Drum Making Workshops
So many people have passed through our workshop door and walked away with their drum, each one crafted and fashioned individually by their own hands. Here at JamBeats we will guide you through that journey from start to finish, encouraging you to step out of and slow down your busy life for a few hours and to enter in to an experience that is beneficial in so many ways.
Making music, drum healing, sound vibration and meditation are but a few reasons that people come to us for drum making.
There is nothing quite like investing your time and energy in creating such a wonderful instrument and it will be with you for a lifetime.
Our rawhide is sourced in the UK and comes from red deer. The deer live naturally in the wild and the skins we use are a wonderful way to keep the spirit of the animal alive once that spirit has been released from it's earthly ties.
Our hoops are made of Ash.
Our Drum Making Workshop has a loose timetable - usually running between 10am and 4pm with around 45 minutes built in for lunch. We can work with up to 4 people at time in our own Essex based workshop. At present, we are able to keep the cost down to £160 per person for a 14” drum if you come to us, £170 for 16" and £180 for 18", which is a very competitive price - but this does depend upon the cost of raw materials and can therefore be subject to fluctuation.
A deposit of £50 required upon booking please.
If you’d like to host your own drum-making day instead of coming to our workshop, we can do that - we’ll come to you and bring everything you need.
Drum-making can offer people a fascinating glimpse in to the ways of the ancestors,
making that connection with the ancient ways when life was lived using what they had around them and with ingenuity and invention. And you get your very own drum and drumstick at the end of it.
Drum-making can be fun for all sorts of occasions and groups - celebrations, grown-ups and children, and so on….we’re only limited by imagination.
We can offer you and your group a day working with rawhide and wood, to create something simple yet beautiful and meaningful. Our workshops usually run 10am-4pm. We can work with a group of up to 6 people at a time if we use your venue, as long as you have the space. See costs above.
Also of course - if you fancy your very own drum but don't fancy the crafting process, I will happily take your commission and make it for you myself. Prices similar.