Drum major

Drummers are perennially underrated. Some writers make rock critic jokes, even other musicians make drummer jokes. But where would the Beatles be without their drummer Ringo Star. The real human drummer was replaced with electronic computer machines during the eighties and nineties for a while, but music fans realized that this was not as good as the sound of a real talented drummer. The drummer does not just support the band they hold it up and push the forward. Robert Plant, the lead singer of

peach pit “struck once like panic” (comparing the startling sound of the pit hitting the drum to the panic the sound created in the boy’s imagination) p5 3. Soldiers’ whispering “was like a natural element” (comparing the combined whispering of all the soldiers to the sound of a great wind approaching p5 3. “this drum which was worse than a toy” (comparing drum’s effectiveness as a weapon to a toy) p6 4. “him lying small here, no more than a toy himself”

Dongson Drums: A Snapshot of the Village Life in Bronze Age Vietnam Thesis Statement: Although many scholars believe that the feathered figures on the drums are depictions of ancestor figures, ethnographic evidences from the Karen’s use of the drum and the Toraja’s funeral rites suggest that the images engraved on the drums are mere portrayals of village life in Dongson. Located in the Hong (Red) River valley, the Dongson society is said to be highly dependent on water for agricultural purposes.

October 2014 Drums What is the absolute best sound in the world? Is it the crashing of waves, the sound of a V8 hemi, or the sound of a credit card being swiped and approved? For a musician, in particular a percussionist, the sound of a drum set would be their favorite sound in the world. Today I am going to briefly talk about the origin of the drum, the components of the modern drum set, and the benefits of drumming. I) Percussion instruments have been used since prehistoric times. A) Drums are found

York. He has been banging the percussions since he was little boy and dreams to be one of the greats such as Buddy Rich. Andrew has been cherry-picked by Terence Fletcher, the authoritarian leader of the school’s jazz band for a spot to be the new drum alternate. Andrew Neiman feeling in awe turns up to his first practice, soon to find out his conductor uses a barbarous method of 'teaching'. Andrew's astonishment got cut off when Fletcher flings a chair at him from across the room for not keeping

Kingdom lasted 29 hours, and 3 quarters in I was pronounced dead, with no steady pulse or heartbeat. The doctor left the room and I came back to life. It was a miracle for my parents and the music industry… because now I’m making my heart race and the drum beat. So many years later, after my parents worrying about my well-being, I attended Lodge Farm secondary school in Great Britain, but never pursued it to a full extent. It was never really for me but

-to-cymbals Clark, Alan. Thomas Heflin. Jeffrey Kluball. Elizabeth Kramer. Understanding Music Past and Present. Pp. 11. University of North Georgia. http://ung.edu/university-press/. Pinksterboer, Hugo. “5,000 Years in 3,000 Words Cymbal History.” Drum Magazine, March 26, 2013. http://drummagazine.com/. Sibson, Jeremy. “Development of Percussion in the Orchestra 1700 to 1850.” Academia. Pp.3.

The evolution of the drums has varied from being made from a simple wood log, to having a hollow object covered in rawhide, to being completely electronic. Like any instrument, each one produces a different sound. Some may sound light like a snare, deep like a bass, or metronomic by simply producing a clicking noise to keep count. Some are completely electronic, even. Starting from one of the oldest drums in the world, the slit drum is an instrument originating from Africa that is made from a hollow

When most people think of a drum line they categorize it all as “drums”, but what they don’t know is that each drum, although similar, have their own role. The most known drums, the snare and the bass, have many similarities, but they are also different in many ways. The bass drum and snare drum are very structurally similar. Both have a cylindrically shaped shell and two tightly stretched drum heads. The shell of the drum is usually made of wood such as poplar, birch, or maple that is veneered

“Time is gone the song is over”, now what? In life humanity craves more time. Time is the one fixation we cannot get enough of. Since humanity is required to age, time seems to slip away. We don’t comprehend how time is synthesized. Society knows it goes on forever, regardless of what happens in life. Pink Floyd’s album, Dark Side Of The Moon, had immense success. It was recorded in the summer of 1972 on Capital records. The song Time was written by Roger Waters and recorded in the progressive