When playing, the holding method and playing method of male and female drums are different. When playing the male drum, hold the drum waist with the left hand, hold the drum in front of the chest, and dance up and down, left and right, and slap the drum faces at both ends alternately with the right hand; when playing the female drum, hang the drum tie in front of the abdomen and slap with both hands respectively. Drums at both ends.
The performance of the yellow mud drum is often combined with dance, mostly beating and dancing, which is called the yellow mud drum by folks. Two people can also play a drum together, often played by a female drum and several male drums. The yellow mud drum has no fixed pitch, and all drums participating in the ensemble need to be coated with wet yellow mud to make the pitch consistent and the sound sonorous and bright. For ensemble or to accompany song and dance.

On occasions such as festivals, teacher's activities, festive harvests, sacrificial prayers or funerals, the Yao people will play the yellow mud drum.
In Liuxiang and other places in Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, there is a "Langping" in the forest next to each village. During the Spring Festival, young men and women come here to sing and dance, talk about love, dance yellow mud drums, and many happy marriages are concluded in this way. of. The yellow mud drum is not only an accompaniment instrument for singing and dancing, but also a dance prop.