The Drum Research Paper

The drum set is unique among musical other instruments. It has many individual parts originated from all over the world for over thousands of years. Percussion and drums can be defined as an instrument that must be hit with a mallet or shaken to make a sound. The surface can be made of animal hide, wood, metal, or really anything that produces sound. The mallet is used to produce the sound that includes a human hand. Drums include a variety of instruments that make similar sounds to a piano such as a xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, etc. Percussion instruments that must be shaken are mostly made up of contained beads or metal. The most famous percussion instrument the snare drum also has beads with adjustable tension along with metal disks …show more content…
Since drum sticks were not around then, people would use their hands. From there onward drums have evolved by the people and cultures that made them and the styles of music they were designed to play. Now there are a wide variety of drums, such as the bass drum, Cymbals, tambourine, timpani etc. In almost all types of music, percussion plays a fundamental role. In a military parade, it is the strike of the bass drum that holds the soldiers in step and at a normal speed, and it is the snare that endows that crisp, vital air to the tune of a troop. In more current popular music genres, it is almost impossible to name at least three or four rock, hip-hop, rap, funk, punk, techno, grunge, alternative and blues songs that don’t have some kind of percussive beat maintaining the beat. A person who has played a major part in the percussion history is Leopold Auenbrugger who developed a new technique of music, which he called percussion. He tapped on the chest with the fingertips with the hand drawn closed, and noted of the sounds that were conveyed to identified something odd. He referred to these "percussed" sounds as either high pitched, muted or