Sabar dance is the traditional dance in Senegal. The Dance is a energetic dance, you use the arms and the legs. They so many different ways of dancing Sabar. One of the dance is call (Thieboujeun) by moving left and right by using one of your arms that you prefer. Drums are also used for the dance . The drums are the instrument that is used. The drums are used for beats and better sounds. These drum sounds, allows the people to dance and to be on point with the beats at the beginning or ending of the dance. Sabar drums, are Native only to Senegal. However, Djembes are played all over west Africa.
For the Sabar dance there are seven drums which are played during the performance. It is played with one hand called the Galan. Around the drums there are seven pegs which give the rhythms when they are played together. With the drums, there are several woods that are used, the wood that is around the drum, it comes from a Baobab tree. The pegs are made from a sump tree. What is on the top of the drum is a piece of the goat skin, they clean it, take all the hair out and then they dry it on the sun until it is very hard, and ready to be use.
The first drum is the M’bung M’bung which is one of the main drums that is played. There are two types of M’bung M’bung which are M’bung M’bung bal and the M’bung M’bung Tungone. The Tungone is shorter than the bal. However, the ball gives a stronger bass sound. Another type of drum is Sabar N’der. The Sabar N’der is the leader of the other drums. It tells the drummers what to play. It is the tallest out of them. The other drums is the Lambe and Talmbat. The Lambe is pretty heavy, the bottom is closed, it is a bass drum. It is also call the thiol in Wolof. The Talmbat is similar to the Lambe but different shape. The Gorong Yeguel which is new created by Doudou Ndiaye Rose who wanted the Gorong yeguel to be similar with the Sabar N’der. Another drum is the Tama. The Tama accompanies the drummers , the Tama is a small drum that is wrapped around your shoulder. The Tama use a smaller stick, it is much more complicated and tiring. All of these drums give different sounds and they also talk to each other. It is interesting knowing that these Sabar give different meaning but play the same exact sound.
