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  2. 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.

  3. Percussion mallet - Wikipedia

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    A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound. The term beater is slightly more general. A mallet is normally held in the hand while a beater may be a foot or mechanically operated, for example in a bass drum pedal. The term drum stick is less general still but still applied to a ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Grip (percussion) - Wikipedia

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    For some instruments, such as triangles and large gongs, only one mallet or beater is normally used, held either in one hand or in both hands for larger beaters. For others, such as snare drums, two beaters are often used, one in each hand. More rarely, more than one beater may be held in one hand; for example, when four mallets are used on a ...

  6. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    Flower drum: China Unpitched Idiophone Fontomfrom: Ghana Membranophone Found object: Frame drum: Unpitched 211.3 Membranophone Friction drum: Both Membranophone A drum where a stick or chord is drawn through a hole in the membrane to make a sound. Frog güiro: Galgo: Korea Unpitched 211.242.1 Membranophone Gandingan: Philippines Unpitched 111. ...

  7. Rute (music) - Wikipedia

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    Cane rute drum sticks. The rute (also spelled ruthe, from the German for 'rod' or 'switch'), also known as a multi-rod, is a beater for drums. Commercially made rutes are usually made of a bundle of thin birch dowels or thin canes attached to a drum stick handle. These often have a movable band to adjust how tightly the dowels are bound toward ...

  8. Chord chart - Wikipedia

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    The term "chord chart" can also describe a plain ASCII text, digital representation of a lyric sheet where chord symbols are placed above the syllables of the lyrics where the performer should change chords. [6] Continuing with the Amazing Grace example, a "chords over lyrics" version of the chord chart could be represented as follows:

  9. Billy Vera - Wikipedia

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    Billy Vera (born William Patrick McCord; [1] May 28, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, author, and music historian.He has been a singer and songwriter since the 1960s, his most successful record being "At This Moment", a US number 1 hit in 1987.