Talking drum, any of various types of drums that, by imitating the rhythm and the rise and fall of words in languages, are used as communication devices.
Musical building blocks include drumming styles of various regions, traditional rhythmic patterns and folk songs.
In contemporary times, taiko are carved out on a large lathe using wood staves or logs that can be shaped to fit drum bodies of various sizes.
He had a penchant for drumming on various objects around the house with a pair of chopsticks, so for his 13th birthday, his parents bought him a pair of drum sticks, a practice drum and some lessons, with the promise that if he stuck with it for a year, they would buy him a kit.
And David Mayoral performed on drums and tambourines of various kinds, sizes and origins, usually with an appealing subtlety born of playing with fingertips and palms rather than sticks and mallets.
In one section, musicians throw tennis balls at a thunder sheet and a bass drum, creating explosions of various magnitudes (or missing entirely) while others play badminton.
This Canadian trio — Bear Witness, Dee Jay NDN and DJ Shub — specializes in a simple but effective hybrid of the more urgent end of electronic music with pow wow music, the traditional drumming and singing of various American Indian tribes.
For boats under 65 feet long, the Coast Guard oversees what it calls a simplified stability test, in which owners simulate full capacity by loading 55-gallon drums of water in various locations on board.
Figure 4 Relative occurrence frequencies of various drum combinations in "ENST drums" [25] data set.
