The Sakara is an old African drum from Nigeria. The drum itself is has an underwire resonator with vellum mounted in. (Blades 57) The shell is generally 10 inches in diameter and 1 and 1.5 inches deep and slopes funnel wise for its depth. The vellum gets stretched over the large rim to the full depth other of the shell and secured halfway down with cord, or smaller material. The lower portion of the vellum is then “doubled back”. Then the membrane is further secured by two or more short sticks. Then the sticks are inserted close to one another along both vellums. While doing this the designer making sure that it surrounds the entire rim. Finally the designer grasps the shell and pushes it outwards making sure there is no extra slack. (Blades 57) With the Sakara the user sits down and plays. Depending on the size of the drum, the drum goes beneath the users legs. The user plays the drum with their hand gently along the outer rim and the center of the drum. In modern days there are many percussionists who still find the work of Early Africa essential to music. The rattle for example is now commonly used to a background filler in for groups, to add an extra layer of flare to a piece.. In most orchestral based bands or occasionally in orchestras themselves rattles are…show more content… Raga is a musical mode in the Indian classical music tradition used in an improvised performance. (Raga in Music) Raga which the mode can be translated to, color, which is the mode gives the piece flare. With western modes there are traditionally only 2 modes a minor and a major. With Indian music there are over 300 different variations of modes, or “ragas”. Each raga has its own scale attached to it. . To more easily identify the notes of a raga scale, Indian musicians assign syllables to each note. The first is called Sa, the second is Re, the third is Ga, and so forth. The whole scale can be written as Sa-Re-Ga-Ma-Pa-Dha-Ni-Sa. (Raga in Music
