African Drums

Powerful Earth based, natural world instruments that invite full body movement; djembe, talking drum, bata, djun djun, ashiko, udu (clay drum) with natural hides and local woods; work the first three deep chakras and initiate release through vocalization

African Percussion

Eclectic group of designs that make a wide variety of sounds that are natural and found object based. Plants, bottle tops, gourds, metal cans, seedpods…and on and on. Like all shakers and rattles they are higher in frequency and good for quick clearing of energies. They provide texture in a song/recording.

Latin Drums

Classic drums made of wood and natural hide; they are especially potent in the sacral chakra as they are passionate and moving helping to clear past wounds through hip based movement; latin rhythms are sensual and evocative; drums include the congas, timbales, bongos, and the cajon.

Latin Percussion

Shakers galore, all strong and piercing to shake loose old energies within the main body chakras; afuche, shekere, berimbau, maracas, cuica, caxixi, claves, rainstick

Native American Drums

Carved from trees and laced with cow, elk, and buffalo hides; earth based drums that also activate the solar plexus; great for strength and change and survival issues

Native American Percussion

Powerful lower chakra rattles made from animal parts, gourds, rawhide, cactus,, horns, bones, etc; very useful in clearing power issues, woundings, and grounding issues.

Other Culture Drums

Powerful drums that add unique textures, energies, and frequencies to your songs include the doumbek  form the Mid East, Tablas from India, Bodhran from Ireland, and Framedrums form multiple cultures (bendir, pandeiro, rain drum, ocean drum, tar)

Tuned Percussion

Xylophone and African balaphon are wooden marimba-like instruments that are soft and woody and soothing and safe; Balinese Gamelan (come in pairs ¼ step apart in tuning to produce binaural beats to impact brain and induce trance states), Mouth Harp,

Electronic Percussion

Electronic drum machines provide a wide range of decidedly electronic sounding drums (TR-808) as well as very accurate samples of real drums. When amplified they provide authentic rhythm to propel your song or performance. Unless accurately programmed they will basically provide a continuous loop- with which to solo over; very useful and portable; there exists some electronic tablas from India that provide authentic tabla rhythms at various tempos;

Flutes

Express agility, freedom, poignancy, and desolation; resonant in upper chakras more; includes ocarina (warm, earthy sound), North American Native Flute (soft warm tone in a pentatonic scale; evocative, reflective, sensitive, calls into the past, blends well with nature and animal kingdom), Irish Whistle (Light and high pitched for fairy like sound, inspires spry movement and dance and activity), Pan Flute (South American; smokey and breathy sound), Ney Flute (Mid Eastern breathy flute with hollow haunting sound, spiritual in character), Shakuhachi (Japanese breathy flute made of bamboo; allows fiery playing)

Woodwinds

A wide variety of reed based instruments that includes the saxophone family and the oboe, clarinet and bassoon; woody and square wave based; provide moving melodies that impact belly to throat; fiery flourishes are possible with them; though tonality, especially of oboe and bassoon calls us back to deal with current and past life issues; melodies are haunting; saxophone impact all chakras with baritone moving the lower and soprano working the brow and crown; oboe and English Horn are  harmonically rich: saxophones are metal with  a brassy timbre are versatile sound healing tools

Brass

Bright and radiant, teaming with high harmonics; abrasive to mellow but dynamic;player adjusts tonality through lips and velocity of the airstream; using mutes gives the instrument a nasal quality; French horn good for stimulating the heart and solar plexus, by exciting the greatest number of harmonics, its mellow sound blends well with orchestras…it is an inspiring sound that motivates as well as being both strong and tender; trumpets stimulate the solar plexus; trombone strongly impacts the belly; tuba vibrates the body the most as its low tones with harmonics are full and vitalizing

Ethnic

Particular the Digeridoo, the Tibetan Templehorn, and the Conch; the digeridoo, made from the eucalyptus tree, is a primal Australian Aboriginal instrument that vastly improves the foundation and grounding of both player and listener. It requires a special circular breathing technique and uses drone and pulses voicings to speak;the Tibetan Templehorn is ceremonial and is used to invite the soul/mind to leave the body for journeying. It is powerful and can draw long suppressed energetic memories from the body and subconscious for clearing; The Conch is a shell that provides a potent blast that can be used for ceremony and cleansing

Harmonium

An Indian keyboard instrument played by pumping air through the bellows. It is a beautiful accompaniment for chanting, especially in the Kirtan process using Sanskrit and Sikh mantras. The timbre can be altered to include harmonics by adjusting the pull levers. It is soothing and nasal at the same time.