If you navigate to (and join) the framedrumming group here at Tribe, you can look up several of the posts that I've made over the
past year or so where I share a lot of concepts for rhythmic creativity and improvisation that I teach normally in a more formal
way to the 2,500 some odd private students I've taught in the past 30 years as a professional trapset, hand and finger styled percussionist.

This one post is particularly apropos
This is a series of exercises I invented that represent not some, but all of the possible double stroke balancing exercises that one can
play in any half measure (of 16th notes).

DOUBLE STROKE BALANCING EXERCISES
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With the Hang Drum, you can play these exercise by keeping your left hand on the lowest note of the drum (which will be called the Fundamental or Tonic of the particular scale that the Hang is tuned to (with enough money , you can buy many hang drums in different scales , because they are all tuned diatonically (or basically, using only the correct notes in one particular scale)

Keep your left hand on this lowest note and play all the right hand patterns on a different note.

After getting the hang of the exercises, you will notice that the right hands always can be clustered in three separate note groupings.

In the first exercise, as an example.................

R R l R l R l l

there is a double note on the right hand first, followed by a single note and a second note (all separated by left hands on the bass tonic note)

in exercise two
R R L R L R R L

there is a double note on the first two right hands, a single right and then another double right hand

All the exercises will end up with this pattern.

This means that you have time to move your right hand from one note on the hang to another adjacent note.

When you get this down and pick up speed, you can vary which notes you are playing , but you will always have a bass note in the left hand
to contrast with the right hand 'melodies'.

You can play this game for hours with each of the different exercises and later, you can reverse the hands and make the left hand do the moving.

This will result in hundreds of potential rhythmic ostinatos (repeated syncopative patterns) that will always have that bass note as a melodic point of departure.

Try that for a good long while until you can master all of those exercises and you will discover that you have played
EVERY possible double stroke balancing exercise and suddenly, improvisation will be really fun and fruitful.

LOL, next up...............by a cheap (but very effective) $29 stomp box pedal by Danelectro called a 'Chili Dog' which will let you
pitch the Hang drum down one or two octaves. Buy one of the two cheapest live looping pedals on the market (Boss RC-2 $175
or, better yet, LINE 6 DL-5 $250) and start looping those bass lines so that you can improvise over them in real time adn become
a Hang drum one person band!

The Hang, especially (like most metallaphones) sounds incredible when played backwards, which the DL-4 allows you to do in
almost real time.

Enjoy!!!! its a wonderful instrument (and you are right) and hard to locate. You are lucky that you got one.
What scale is it in?