Percussion Instruments

https://www.britannica.com/art/percussion-instrument ^ | Dec 11, 2018 | Edmund Addison Bowles, Sibyl Marcuse

[kawhill]

Percussion instrument, any musical instrument belonging to either of two groups, idiophones or membranophones.

[kawhill]

Been trying to learn and play a drum set. Got a very long way to go before I'm Neil Peart. Was wondering about other percussion musicians on Free Republic.

[Repeal The 17th]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4o4Q9sd_y4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4o4Q9sd_y4

[DoodleBob]

I’m pinging people who are musicians. They may know actual drummers or percussionists.

[T.B. Yoits]

My two cents is to start with just the rudiments, even with a practice pad on a stand.

I recommend to learn playing Matched Grip instead of Traditional Grip. Traditional Grip is a holdover from marching with a snare drum where your left hand had to hold the stick more like a pencil because the drum skin faced forward at the hip.

I also recommend learning Open Handed drumming instead of traditional cross-handed. Cross-handed is a holdover from the Traditional Grip due to a marching snare and from older kits where you couldn't move your equipment wherever you wanted.

https://www.amazon.com/Open-Handed-Playing-Vol-Claus-Hessler/dp/0739054155

[kawhill]

I’ve read that Pearl drums are pretty good and the Avedis Zildjian Company makes good cymbals and have been for a long time. That’s what I’m trying on. I doubt my skill level in this evolution of my development is even worthy of playing that equipment, but I will continue on.

[fretzer]

I’m not a musician but Portnoy is back with Dream Theater. He’s in studio here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dxGRq0cNDY

[kawhill]

Discovered this young lady and thought woah nelly, she good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7HnviWfpo

[kawhill]

I really appreciate your time to educate me.

[Disambiguator]

Listen to this song with headphones on and learn from the best.

Percussion - Morris Pert
Drums - Phil Collins

Brand X - Malaga Virgen (studio version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vozCJdLUFv8

[Disambiguator]

I play the bass, so I can’t help with drums and percussion.

:^)

[Organic Panic]

Irish Bohran.

Scottish snare.

[kawhill]

A guy told me this one time: What do you do if you’re a drummer and you make a mistake? You gaze angrily at the bass player because he thru off your timing and you keep on playing! lol.

[jmacusa]

Find a good drum teacher.It’s as simple as that. Mine was the (late) Joe Morello, one of the best drummers ever.

[jmacusa]

I used to play using the match grip for years. Then I took lesson from Joe Morello and learned what rudiments were and what a metronome is. After a while I found the Match grip wasn't conducive to how I liked to play and found the Traditional Grip to be much better.

[Fido969]

I’m just happily thumping my bass thinking no one knows or cares what I am doing, until I miss a beat (rarely, but usually caused by a finger spasm) and everyone goes off a few a second or two.

Also, I am amazed that the drummer is listening to me to get the beat and groove.

The bass is the foundation of the music!

[Fido969]

It’s all about the backbeat. I wish more drummers knew that.

[zeebee]

A piano is a percussion instrument because the sound is from hammers hitting strings.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Hey Organic,
It’s great to see that a fellow FREEPER plays the Bodhran. I live in the Blue Ridge mountains of western North Carolina and have mostly played the Mountain Dulcimer. Having a Scots-Irish heritage influence in the old-time traditional music that is played in many of the community jam sessions here, 5 years ago I decided to add the Bodhran and bought one at a music festival and dove right in with YouTube lessons. While playing with a little jam group at our local Irish pub we had a visiter with a Bodhran join us one night and she gave me some valuable pointers, her father was one of the famous Clancy Brothers. So then knowing I needed a better Bodhran, I ordered one from Paraic McNeela in Dublin …. A deep rim with a beautiful bass tone and I’m loving it.

BTW….. have you heard the pipe and drum band, Albannach? They play a sort of “primal“ style that is incredibly awesome …… went all the way to Asheville to hear them when they played at a Celtic festival there.
https://youtu.be/2DF-pIojGME?si=l1c9yBXTIXcnLtlH

[Openurmind]

Flamadiddle, paradiddle, roll.......................

Very cool! Good for you!

Been playing since I was four and even made a living at it for awhile before I settled down and got married.

I love to see someone trying to keep cultural arts alive by learning an instrument!

Did you get set up Acoustic or electronic?

[Openurmind]

“I’ve read that Pearl drums are pretty good and the Avedis Zildjian Company makes good cymbals and have been for a long time.”

You did good. I have had many sets over the years and my current set is a Pearl with Zildjian Cymbals. My largest two Zildjian ride cymbals I have used for over fifty years now without them cracking. :)

Single bass with a double pedal, four ride toms, three floor toms, a set of Timbales, snare and high hat of course, cowbells, and an overhead cymbal rack with seven cymbals hanging.