According to the folk artist Đinh Văn Nhật, before creating the đất drum, the maker has to sacrifice to the God. The next work is digging a jar-shaped hole with the diameter of 18 cm-20 cm and the depth of 30 cm-35 cm on the flat ground.

The maker puts two dry bamboo ocreae in the way that the head of one ocrea is at the same direction of the end of another. He covers the hole to be the drumhead. After that, one bamboo string is used to tie one end and goes through the middle of those two ocreae. The drumhead is fixed to the ground with four bamboo sticks and then it is fastened tightly to the ground with four neohouzeaua splints.

The next work is driving two sticks made of bamboo brances 1 m distant from the drumhead toward two directions. One wild-cassava string with the diameter of 5 mm – 7mm is utilized to tie two ends of those driven sticks and then the maker ties the string from the drumhead tightly and stretchedly to the wild-cassava string. All above actions are done within about 10 minutes. The creation of the đất drum is finished.

The sound of the đất drum depends on the tightness of the drumhead, the stretch, the diameter, and the length of the string as well as the width and the depth of the hole.

The smoothness, the condenseness, and the plasticity of the earth influence the drum sound. Two sticks tied to the wild-cassava string play the role of the sound neck. The performer plays the drum by using two bamboo chopsticks to strike the bamboo string and the sound is transmitted from the drumhead to the ground.

The deep and high sound is sometimes successively resounding like the generator. If the performer uses one hand to pull down the sound neck, the drum sound will have the long vibration like the sound produced by the bầu monochord. If he touches the string with his finger, the drum sound will be dry and sharp. Furthermore, the drum player can create the sound like the successively running of the horse to inform of the battle winning or like the tumultuous cheer of soldiers.

According to local folk artists, in the past, the đất drum was played in the combination with other traditional instruments to accompany giang and ví singing of Mường group in festivals. At present, the position of the đất drum, a folk instrument, is partly overshadowed in front of the encroachment of other modern instruments in festivals.