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  2. Drum charts - Wikipedia

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    Drum charts include their own musical vocabulary. The music written for drummers is not the same as, say, a pianist. Drummers use their own symbols and language in their charts. For example, a "middle C" note written on a staff for pianists is equivalent to the "snare drum" for drummers. Or, the note "F" on the piano staff is equal to the "bass ...

  3. 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.

  4. Drum tuning - Wikipedia

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    Double-tension is a method of applying tension to drum heads. Drum manufacturers use several methods to apply tension to drum heads; the preferred way is to tighten the heads with a hoop that is held tight to the drum shell with a number of individual threaded rods which connect to stanchions mounted with bolts onto the outside of the drum ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Pulse (music) - Wikipedia

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    Clear quarter note pulse in 4 4 at a tempo of =120 Play ⓘ.At =600 the pulse becomes a drone Play ⓘ, while at =30 the pulse becomes disconnected sounds Play ⓘ.. While ideal pulses are identical, when pulses are variously accented, this produces two- or three-pulse pulse groups such as strong–weak and strong–weak–weak [4] and any longer group may be broken into such groups of two and ...

  7. Rototom - Wikipedia

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    The rototom is a shell-less drum developed by Al Payson and Michael Colgrass that is able to change pitch by rotating its drumhead around a threaded metal ring. [1] Unlike many types of drums, rototoms are designed to have a variable definite pitch leading composers to write specific notes for them as pitched percussion instruments .

  8. Bodhrán - Wikipedia

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    The drum is usually played in a seated position, held vertically on the player's thigh and supported by their upper body and arm (usually on the left side, for a right-handed player), with the hand placed on the inside of the skin where it is able to control the tension (and therefore the pitch and timbre) by applying varying amounts of ...

  9. Drummerworld - Wikipedia

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    Drummerworld is a Swiss drum website created by Bernhard Castiglioni in 1997. The site focuses on the biographies of prominent rock and jazz drummers and features drum lessons along with a discussion forum. [1] Drummerworld also features Drum solos and drum videos of the day, and other pages featuring all things drums.