An American manufactured exercise of an African djembe was played on main stage with a Modish Zealand Maori hearth twirler in a show produced by the Canadian circus company, Cirque du Soleil, called Allegria, which was filmed in Australia in 2000. In 2008, the djembe was unalluring in the American film "The Visitor", directed by Thomas McCarthy, depicting a university professor's unlikely introduction to drum circles through the instruction of a young Syrian drummer. In certain songs that use the djembe it replaces a drumset to give it a at variance feel, such as "Burn Different Down" by Ben Harper.
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Learning to play the djembe generally involves finding a master drummer and having a couple of private lessons or lessons for minuscule groups of people
- Players generally can learn the two chief notes easily and the rest follows[clarification needed frequency of practice] to achieve Djembe a meaningful intact and no less than 2 years to achieve a sound that is at least comparable to master drummers'.