Drums

He's only there to keep the beat and lead the band

I'm assuming you mean for snare drum.

If that is true there are two basic grips. There is a traditional grip(older) and matched grip(newer).

A basic matched grip is made by extending your hand like you are about to shake hands with someone and then just "shaking hands with the stick". Your thumb should be on the side of the stick pointing towards the bead(the small tip that you hit on the drum). Then you just close the four remaining fingers around the stick comfortably. You should have white knuckles from gripping it to tightly but it also shouldn't feel like the stick is going to fall out of your hand. With a standard snare stick the butt end(the end you don't hit on the drum) should be sticking out about 1 inch from your closed hand.

If you are standing, the snare drum should be at about belt height with the snare lever(how you turn the snares on and off) directly in front of you on the closest side.

To make a basic stroke put the tips of both sticks on the center of the drum head. They should make the shape of a piece of pie(about a 70 degree angle but it's fairly variable from player to player). Then using the wrist and some propulsion from the fore-arm strike the bead of the stick on the center of the snare drum.

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Take your pick:

-Béla Bartók

-Alban Berg

-Luciano Berio

-Leonard Bernstein

-Ernest Bloch

-Benjamin Britten

-Buddy Bolden

-Ferruccio Busoni

-John Cage

-Teresa Carreño

-Carlos Chavez

-Aaron Copland

-John Coltrane

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-Frederick Delius

-Edward K. "Duke" Ellington

-George Gershwin

-Stan Getz

-Dizzy Gillespie

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-Charles Ives

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-Scott Joplin

-Karl Lawrence King

-Zoltan Kodaly

-Gyorgy Ligeti

-Ervin Litkei

-Witold Lutoslawski

-Henry Mancini

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-Arnold Schoenberg

-Aleksandr Scriabin

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-Pierre Boulez

-George Crumb

-Steve Reich

-Chinary Ung

-Paul Lansky

-Libby Larsen

A simple web search for your desired drum kit will turn up a number of business selling just what you seek. Some of the more reputable, popular sellers include: Guitar Center, American Musical (also owned by Guitar Center), zZSounds, Musician's Friend and Sam Ash (links below).

Snare drum, bass drum, and toms. There can be different variations, like piccolo snare, double bass, and multiple high and low toms.

There is Snare drum, bass drum, high and low toms, floor tom, hi hat (close and openable) ride cymbal and a crash cymbal (Same as the handheld cymbals).

Snare drum, base drum, left tom, right tom, floor drum, crash cymbal, ride cymbal and a hi-hat

ok im a different person upgrading this.....!!!!! there are the hi hat, ride, crash, splash, china, cow bell, double kick pedal and more which ii forgot

Some variations of the names :

Snare drum : Military drum / Side drum / Field drum

Toms : Tom-tom / Mounted tom / Racked Tom / Floor tom

Bass drum : Kick drum / Big drum

On most drum kits it will be made up of a base drum (18'', 20'' or 22''), a small rack tom (10'' or 12''), A large rack tom (12'' or 13''), a floor tom (14''), a snare drum (14''), hi-hats (14''), crash cymbal (16'') and a ride cymbal (20'')

Zildjian, Paiste, Sabian, and meinl, have great drummers and have great sounds.

Zildjian is famous for being the first cymbals made. When you buy zildjian many people are just buying them for the name. However they do have good sound I recommend the a custom or a series. They have quite a few drum endorses which include the drummer from linkin park(Rob Burdon), Carter Buford, and the great buddy rich!!

http://zildjian.com/EN-US/home.ad2

For Paiste they are the third biggest cymbal company and my personal favorite.

Joey jordison, Nicko Mcbrian, are both avid paiste lovers as well others.

Paiste has made many innovations to the cymbal community such as the edged bottom hi-hat flat rides and flat bells.

http://www.paiste.com/

Sabian the second largest cymbal company has quite an interesting background.

It was tradition that the father of the zildjian family pass down the formula to the oldest son but Avedis Zildjian III passed it down to both his son Armand Zildjian and Robert Zildjian. The was a conflict between Robert and Armand so Robert split from Zildjian and formed Sabian cymbals Sa from his daughter sandy, bi from his son billy, and an from his daughter anne. Sabian cymbals are known for having some of the worlds greatest artist. Tony Royster Jr., Neil Peart, Mike Portnoy, Chad Smith, and tons others.

http://sabian.com/en/

Meinl is the 4th largest and are great cymbals!

The have a very nice range of cymbals with amazing sounds.

Meinl and Paiste are both considered the Euro style sound.

The great thomas lang is one of meinl cymbal artists.

http://www.meinlcymbals.com/

So basically Is all boils down to personal preference. You can go to your local music shop and try out cymbals. See what you like and what you don't like.

Exactly what you referred to them as: drums. In reality, however, you can't call all african drums by one name.....otherwise they would all be the exact same drum haha! Just to give you an idea, here are some of the different types of African Drums:

Djembe

Talking Drum

Bata

Bougarabou

Ngoma

Check out videos and recordings of the different types and you'll realize how unique each drum is!

Some percussion instruments that are not standard drum sets or drum kits are:

bell

chime bar

cow bell

cymbal

pian

siren

sleigh bells

timbal

timpani

triangle

whip

whistle

wood block

xylophone

In 1949 the first electric drums were created.

Not traditionally, but there are a few pieces that call for one. Usually something with Irish or Celtic themes.

max has used dw drums in a wmp drum finish since1989. Has seven different dw drum kit two for Conan two for the e street band three for his big band and cymbals all zildjians 14 a master sound hihats 17 a medium thin crash 18 a medium crash 20 rock ride and for Conan same thing and big band some times a 16 k dark crash

What Instrument did the Chippewa Indians use

1)claranet 2)clapping sticks(i'm in primary school) 3)umm err i forgot the rest

The basic beginner drum set usually includes (to the far left) a cymbal called a hi hat which looks like two cymbals on top of each other. The cymbal (in the diagram) at the top in the middle is called crash and comes in many sizes from 13" to 19" usually. The cymbal (in the diagram) to the far right is a ride and is usually bigger than the crash. the flat drum beside the hi hat is the most used drum on the drum set and is called a snare drum. The big drum on the bottom is called a bass drum. The two drums on top of the bass drum are called rack toms and the drum on the ground is called a floor tom.

Now that's just the basic drum set. As beginner drummers progress and get money perhaps they tend to want to expand their drum set to mach their talent. Some othe cymbals are the china or Chinese cymbal and almost looks inside out or wavy. Splash cymbals are small ranging from 4" to 12" also there are cymbals called accents that look like splashes but have a very ringy high pitched sound. Cowbells, wood blocks and tamborines are sometimes added to sets to add different dimentions to the sound.

That's about it but there are other unusual peices of equipment that are sometimes added to drum sets.

well it depends on what kind of drum you are talking about. if you are talking about a snare, the bottom head shuts off all the ringing sound and adds a surface for the springs to "buzz" up against. without it it will sound like a tom.

it's a symbol, part of a drum kit and makes a clang-like sound when stuck with a drumstick.. it's a thin, mostly flat piece of metal that is suspended in the air on a pole...surely you've heard one, unless you don't listen to music at all

The bass drum generally provides a strong beat for the music. Mostly played on a downbeat, or the other strong beats in that meter (Time Signature)

You tighten or loosen the head, the drum's membrane, (very carefully). A tighter head will give a higher pitch. To avoid shearing stress on the head, you want to make sure that tension is as evenly distributed across the head as possible.

It all depends on what you want to call a drum kit. So I guess it's anything with at least 2 percussion instruments of which at least 1 is a drum.

Some drum kits (if we're talking about non live players) have big drum kits on their harddrives. I personally like each of my kits to contain

10 kicks

10 snares

10 hi hats

10 open hi hats

Etc...

The melody controls the feel which dictates the rythms of the accompaniment.

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