Good luck to all of those learning the bodhráin. It is a beautiful instrument and reminds me of some many excellent times spent in Ireland as a child and in pubs where someone would turn up, then a fiddle player and a whole session was taking place

I have never tried and only have one as display on a wall tho in my defence I did spend 4 years in a Pipe band as a tenor drummer (have had to stop for time being due to work commitments etc) so do have drums in my blood.

As GBS say "Beat the drum, beat the drum, like a heartbeat loney and strong - beat the drum"