Contributors in Drums

Drums

Shaker

Musical equipment; Drums

Any percussion instrument that can be shaken. Usually a hollowed out container filled with beads or pebbles.

Shekere

Musical equipment; Drums

A large hollow gourd surrounded by woven beads. Common in Afro-Cuban music.

Four-four time (or 4/4 time)

Musical equipment; Drums

Time signature indicating 4 beats to the measure where the quarter note receives the beat.

Frame drums

Musical equipment; Drums

Drums that consist of a head stretched over a narrow framed skeleton. Simple in design but capable of many types of sounds.

Simbi

Musical equipment; Drums

(African term) old hunter's harp, like the donsongoni

Fulcrum

Musical equipment; Drums

The point on which a lever rests and on which it pivots. (My fulcrum is jacked, I need to go back to the technique modules from GIK.)

Single stroke roll

Musical equipment; Drums

One of the most important of the 40 drum rudiments (R L R L, R L R L), as it helps to make up all the others.

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