Pop music percussion
Tuning: not specific
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Drums set
Drums set
A combination of percussion instruments that jazz and pop drummers use to play. Includes a snare drum, bass drum, tom-toms, and cymbals. The drums set evolved during the end of the 19th century when technical inventions allowed a few drums and cymbals to be played by only one performer at the same time. In the beginning, ragtime and jazz players used it, and since the 1950s, drums became the rhythm section's heart of rock and pop music.
In the 1970s the drum machine appeared and a few years after, the electronic drum pad. The latter is activated by striking the drum-like pads with drumsticks in order to produce a series of preset analog or digital sounds.





Listen to drum pads play with a band...Electric Drum pad




Congas

The Congas
This Afro-Cuban drum is played with the fingers and generally used alone or in pairs. When more than one drum is used the instruments are of different pitches.



Bongos

The Bongos
This Latin American pair of small drums played with the bare hands and is held between the knees, or fixed to a stand. Created in Cuba in the beginning of the 1900s. While having an important position in Latin American dance music, the bongos have played a less important role in jazz than the conga.
Timbale


Timbales
A pair of single-headed, cylindrical drums, most often used in Latin American dance music such as the Salsa and in Afro-Cuban jazz. The timbales set-up includes one or two bells: a long, wide, low pitched bell - the mambo bell, and a small, high pitched bell - the cha-cha bell. The timbales player is called a timbalero.


Drum machine

Drum machine
An electronic device with digital percussion sounds and samples. The drum machine organizes those sounds into rhythmic patterns and loops. Can be connected to other digital musical instruments via MIDI.
Famous
Drummers


Ringo Starr


Art Blakey

Buddy Rich

Omar Hakim

Peter Erskine

Max Roach





"...and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD...þ" (Ezra, chapter 3:10)


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