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  2. Cajón - Wikipedia

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    Another way of playing the cajón is to use an ordinary bass drum pedal, thus turning the cajón into an indirect percussion instrument which can be played with the feet. This enables the player to beat it just like a pedal-bass drum, thus leaving the hands (and one other foot) free to play other instruments. On the other hand, it also ...

  3. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    Drum stick: Unpitched 111.11 Idiophone Drum kit: New Orleans Unpitched Membranophone Dunun: Mandé Both 211.212.1 Membranophone In ballet style playing, a repeating melody is played on three pitched drums Egg shaker: Unpitched 112.13 Idiophone Ekwe: Nigeria Unpitched [clarification needed] 111.24 Idiophone A type of slit drum: Electronic drum ...

  4. Drum tablature - Wikipedia

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    Drum tablature, commonly known as a drum tab, is a form of simplified percussion notation, or tablature for percussion instruments.Instead of the durational notes normally seen on a piece of sheet music, drum tab uses proportional horizontal placement to indicate rhythm and vertical placement on a series of lines to represent which drum from the drum kit to stroke.

  5. Percussion instrument - Wikipedia

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    Orchestral percussion section with timpani, unpitched auxiliary percussion and pitched tubular bells Djembé and balafon played by Susu people of Guinea Concussion idiophones (), and struck drums Modern Japanese taiko percussion ensemble Very large drum kit played by Terry Bozzio Mridangam, an Indian percussion instrument, played by T. S. Nandakumar Evelyn Glennie is a percussion soloist

  6. Classification of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    211.1 Instruments in which the body of the drum is dish- or bowl-shaped, such as the kettle drum. 211.11 Single instruments; 211.12 Sets of instruments, such as orchestral timpani; 211.2 Tubular Drums – Instruments in which the body is tubular 211.21 Cylindrical Drums – Instruments in which the body has the same diameter at the middle and end

  7. Percussion notation - Wikipedia

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    Cymbals are usually notated with 'x' note heads, drums with normal elliptical note heads and auxiliary percussion with alternative note heads. [1] Non-pitched percussion notation on a conventional staff once commonly employed the bass clef , but the neutral clef (or "percussion clef"), consisting of two parallel vertical lines, is usually ...

  8. Marímbula - Wikipedia

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    The musician sits on top of the box reaching down to pluck the tongues whilst slapping the sides of the box like a drum. The instrument's evolution and playing style is similar to the cajon box drum. This instrument was very important in the development of Afro-Cuban music as it was one of the basic instruments played by changüí musicians.

  9. Unpitched percussion instrument - Wikipedia

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    A pair of timbales, two cowbells, a jam block and a cymbal all in use as unpitched percussion Three instruments on the spectrum between pitched and unpitched: whistle, woodblocks, crotales Play ⓘ An unpitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument played in such a way as to produce sounds of indeterminate pitch , or an instrument ...