Whether you are planning to learn a percussion instrument or want to switch from one to another, you need to check out some good percussion instruments for beginners. There are plenty of choices ...

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún players match ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to the varied, explosive, resonant sounds of instruments struck, shaken, pounded, scratched. In the past, we’ve chosen the five minutes or so ...

TO A stranger, I’d probably look like an octopus having a fever dream—my twitchy appendages stomping the hi-hat pedal and whacking the snare when they should be doing something else. To my ...

When technology takes the lead, music always follows, and while the simple provision of a reliable beat doesn’t sound like much, the invention and adoption of new drum machines has consistently ...

IT is well known that percussion instruments as a class give inharmonic overtones, and are thus musically defective. We find on investigation that a special type of musical drum which has long been ...