Among musical instruments, the drum (has) the greatest power to tune to life energy. The surface of the Earth and the vault of the Sky are like drumheads. The steady drumming...causes the Earth and Sky to resonate, like the heartbeat of Nature."
This quote by Kenneth Cohen gives insight into some great characteristics of drumming. Rhythm in our bodies with our hearts or in nature give a great reason for drumming has such an awesome ability to be a medium in which Sacred communication may occur. Also, the idea of the surface of the and sky being a drumhead which leads to the resonation by the volume of the earth and sky gives way to connection drumming creates for individual with nature. Also, the pattern of rhythm is something which can be connected with patterns of our natural world. Changes in the beat coincide with the changes of the natural world and connect the drummer with rhythm of the earth. Sacred communication through the medium of drums not only provides the individual communion with the Divine, but a connection to the natural world in which the Sacred can be experienced also.
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