Intermediate and advanced players usually join workshops with many students (sometimes up to 15) and learn dissimilar phrases and rhythms from master drummers. Literature for these two levels of drummers is still infrequent if not unavailable.
As a aftereffect of the goblet shape, the density of the wood, the internal carvings, and the skin, there is a dilated ambit of tones that can be produced by the djembe. The rounded shape with the extended tube of the djembe body forms a device known in physics as a Helmholtz resonator, giving it Djembe the deep bass note. The main notes are generally referred to as "bass", "tone" and "slap", though a miscellany of other tones can be produced by advanced players. The slap has a high, sharp sound and the tone is and "round" and full. The bass is the lowest.
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