Wolof Tribe

Wolof Tribe

The dominant ethnic tribes of the nation of Senegambia in the West Africa. The Wolof states were the first to trade with sailing Europeans in the 1400s. Wolof tribe will use four drums, one for lead, one rhythm, one bass and one talking drum.They call the music (Sabarr).

Tarran bat is a drum that has no hole at the bottom of the carved tree. This very special drum too, because the drums in the other tribes will have a holes under the carved tree and skin on top. But these drums don’t have had a holes under the carved tree. So when you play on it, the sound comes out of the top, and is deep sound like a bass tone while the other one has lighter sound.

The Tama drum is a wonderful drum, and it has skin on both sides. A tama player and the lead singer can exchange words together during a ceremony through drum speak. Tama drums can be used as the lead drum. It has skin in both side of the carved tree. You can play on only one side at a time. But you can always change sides and see which side sounds good to play on.