How to Play Steel Pan Drums in a Band : Playing Leads on Steel Drums

Learn how to play leads on steel pan drums and get professional tips and advice from an expert drummer on playing steel percussion instruments in this free music lesson video.

Expert: Alan Mark Lightner
Bio: Alan Mark Lightner generates excitement through his energetic, charismatic, and highly skilled approach to playing and teaching music.
Filmmaker: Louis Nathan

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• steel pan drums
• playing steel drums
• steel drum playing
• steel drum pans
• steel drums in band
• steel drum tips

[hadeslovesgreenday]

I can't believe there are morons who dare comment and say th steelpan was invented in Jamaica or whatnot, when they don't know what the hell they're talking about.............GOOGLE IT IDIOTS!!!! THE STEELPAN WAS INVENTED IN TRINIDAD!!!!!!!!! whoever told you otherwise has probably never used the internet.........

[HansumTrini]

TRINIDADIANS R THE ONES WHO INVENTED THIS THANK YOU

[conyelp]

@hadeslovesgreenday Yes, the steel pan drum did originate in Trinidad. Music used to be outlawed there so the people would take a hammer and pound on steel drums like the ones that used to sit behind a house with garbage in them. The hammering slowly beat the shape of a pan. Then the people started to see how many different sounds they could get, that's what ingenuity can do. True story, look it up.

[longdongtidleydee]

@rieg10 i am from jamaica and we use it a lot and most reggae have it in, it was invented in trinidad but it is used loads by jamaicans :)

[flspy]

@AManandHisPan Lighten up man!

[sebamurgui1]

woow i never heard this instrument before, it´s fucking awsomeeee!

[georgecimadon]

Hey, just wondering... isn't the steel pan a jamaican instrument after all?

[ironmanozzy]

I HEARD THESE WERE INVENTED IN JAMAICA LOLOLOLO

[dogshmog]

@hadeslovesgreenday Well thank god for Jamaica, I don't know where we would be in this world if Jamaica hadn't invented the steelpan!

[AManandHisPan]

I am willing to bet this guy does NOT play pan professionally. First of all his pan is a D pan and it has a MIDDLE C AND a high c. I know because I play D pan as well. And I absolutely DON'T LIKE when people refer to this instrument as a 'drum'. THE STEEL PAN IS NOT A DRUM!

And big up T&T for inventing this instrument but the country dropped the ball on the pan a long time ago...As a country it does little to promote and advance the pan..It's a shame because now Europeans are doing it.

[SPS148669]

I alway hear thus instrument being played in Nintendo Mario games!

[TheJosh909]

@godsangelfella aamm ok i am a trinidadian living in trinidad....n u all need 2 come trinidad 2 understand jamaicans can't play it shit as gud.heheheh come round carnival time!!!! den allyuh will never make the mistake and say it was invented in jamaica again!!!!!! my humble opinion :)