Sentence examples for hand drumming from inspiring English sources

Under a bass ostinato Mr. Weiss played rhythms slowly with mallets, then quickly with hand drumming.

She now works at the Washington law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, drumming up business in Latin America.

He's integrated into his playing much of what he knows, including swing, rock backbeats, funk and Cuban and Brazilian hand drumming.

There are also some sketchy solo piano improvisations by Mr. Lloyd, decent blues singing and guitar by Higgins, and hand drumming in abundance.

He doesn't swing much in this group, though there's so much else going on that's rhythmically interesting — rolling arpeggiated chords, tremelos, marches, fast-over-slow, cross-rhythms, hints of Steve Reich and gamelan and Indian hand drumming.

The first to focus on Afro-Latin hand drumming, it drew contestants ranging from an ethnomusicologist with a degree from Wesleyan University to a 10-year-old from East Harlem.

He began on Saturday by hand-drumming on the piano lid against Sebastiaan de Krom's peppery snare-drum crackles and rolls.

I did go to a party in Venice Beach, to a bungalow near the ocean with bougainvillaea shading the walk, the fire in the pit out back ringed by balding men playing guitar and hand-drumming.

Nat King Cole's Walkin', then Lovesick Blues and Don't Stop the Music followed fast, with Rebello and Cullum swapping the piano stool, and an increasingly relaxed and spontaneous Cullum eventually beatboxing and hand-drumming on the woodwork.

Hands drummed on tables and feet stomped.

Rhythms were shared by traditional instruments — tapped on a calabash, hand-drummed on a djembe — and a drum kit.