Sentence examples for hand percussion from inspiring English sources
noun
Any percussion instrument that can be held in the hand.
Strings, cuatro, hand percussion, glockenspiel and grand piano on another?
HEALING HAND PERCUSSION CIRCLE, Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, 257 West 88th, Manhattan, 212) 787-7600.
Nowadays he tours with Eddie Palmieri's large ensemble, in which his effervescent hand percussion often becomes a point of focus.
In addition to guitar and vocals, Mr. Cantuária plays overdubbed hand percussion; Mr. Frisell plays acoustic and electric guitars and tends to an array of sampled loops.
And despite all the synthetic elements here, you hear the rattle of hand percussion, the light scrape of fingers on a fret board.
The additional figures in her equation will be John Ellis, on tenor saxophone, and Yosvany Terry, on alto saxophone and hand percussion.
"It's weird because even though I knew I wanted to DJ while I was producing, I used guitar, bass, vocals, and hand percussions...real instruments in this supposed dance music.
They all sang "Dance This Mess Around," by the B-52's, Trask banging on a wooden hand-percussion instrument.
They wore rainbow-hued robes and pounded on hand-percussion instruments with scythe-shaped sticks, creating a hurricane of swirling colors, thrashing movement and throbbing drumbeats.
With just hand-percussion instruments, fluid movement, thought-provoking lyrics and an assortment of remarkable voices, the Grammy-winning ensemble's roots run deep from the spirituals, hymns and gospel of the church, to blues and jazz.
He ditches his crutch of rickety keyboards and synths, too, in favour of skeletal, spooky hand-percussion and sparse, jazzy piano, as he turns away in horror from global atrocities: "I saw some people starving / There was murder, there was rape / Their villages were burning / They were trying to escape".
