Brendhan,
Below is a section taken from my ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture 40th Edition on Page 142. Hope my typing is good enough not to miss anything.
As written;
DRUMMING - If one beats rhythmically on the side of a honey bee hive,gum,box hive or natural nest, the bees will respond by moving upward. The Queen and the drones will follow the workers, If a covered, empty super or box is placed above an opened hive, the bees will march into it in a orderly fashion in a matter of several minutes. This process, called drumming, is one method commenly used to force bees out of a fixed comb hive. It is important to smoke the the bees moderatley before starting the beating process, but once the bees start to move further smoking is not necessary. An uncoordinated beating will arouse the guard bees and cause them to attack but a rhythmic one does not. One may drum with bare hands, a stick, or other instrument, a rubber mallet works well.
The origin of drumming is unknown, but the method is widely used in Europe to drive bees out of straw skeps and other contrivances used as hives several hundred years ago. It is curious that bees will abandon brood when drummed, something they are not prone to do under ordinary circumstances.
Some producers of package bees place a queen excluder over a colony and drum the bees up into the empty super. The bees are shaken from the super into a package. The excluder prevents the Queen and drones from moving upward into the empty box. If the drumming is done in the middle of the day, the older bees are out foraging and the package is made up of young bees. This method of making packages is safe, fast, and convenient.
We do not know why bees respond as they do to drumming. Honey bees can detect substrate borne vibrations, and certain frquencies will cause them to freze or stand motionless on a comb. The sensory organs involved are apparently located on the feet. How far bees will move when drummed has never been tested.
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The only problem I see from what is written above is that if all the bees and queen move when drumming and leave the brood nest, you would have to do this a couple of times or more to get the new bees. Short of that, if you were sure you had drummed the queen out, would be to kill off what might be left in the block wall.
Hope this helps you.
Jack