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Drums set
A combination of percussion instruments
that jazz
and pop
drummers use to play. Includes a snare
drum, bass drum, tom-toms, and cymbals.
The drums set evolved during the end of the 19th century when technical
inventions allowed a few drums and cymbals to be played by only one performer
at the same time. In the beginning, ragtime
and jazz players used it, and since the 1950s, drums became
the rhythm section's heart of rock and pop
music.
In the 1970s the drum machine
appeared and a few years after, the electronic drum
pad.
The latter is activated by striking the drum-like pads with drumsticks
in order to produce a series of preset analog or digital sounds.
 Electric
Drum pad
 Congas
The Congas
This Afro-Cuban
drum is played with the fingers and generally used alone or in pairs. When
more than one drum is used the instruments are of different pitches.
Bongos
The Bongos
This Latin American pair
of small drums played with the bare hands and is held between the knees,
or fixed to a stand. Created in Cuba
in the beginning of the 1900s. While having an important position
in Latin American dance music, the bongos have played a less important
role in jazz than the conga.
 Timbale
Timbales
A pair of single-headed, cylindrical drums, most often
used in Latin American dance music such as
the Salsa
and in Afro-Cuban
jazz.
The timbales set-up includes one or two bells: a long, wide, low pitched
bell - the mambo bell, and a small, high pitched bell - the cha-cha bell.
The timbales player is called a timbalero.
 Drum
machine
Drum machine
An electronic device with digital percussion sounds and
samples.
The drum machine organizes those sounds into rhythmic patterns and loops .
Can be connected to other digital musical instruments via MIDI.
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Famous
Drummers
Ringo Starr
Art Blakey
Buddy Rich
Omar Hakim
Peter Erskine
Max Roach
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