August 11th, 2010 — Drumsticks, Musical Instruments Drum
Drumsticks are specially designed sticks that are intended to strike the heads of percussion instruments like drums. Drumsticks are especially useful for hitting specific types of drums, especially during orchestral work, jazz music, rock band music and even marching band music. The most common drumsticks are made from oak, hickory, hard maple and ebony wood. Typical drum sticks are made to be 16.3 inches in length, and only 0.635 inches in diameter with a rounded tip. Drum sticks can be used by players of all experience levels and age groups, including beginners, intermediates, experts, advanced players and even professional drummers, though not all drumming requires the use of drumsticks. Most professional drummers are quite particular when it comes to the characteristics of their drumsticks, paying particular attention to the weight, the shape, the size, the balance, the grain and the density of the sticks that they buy and use. Thick and heavy sticks tend to be used to primarily play street drums in drum corps and in marching bands, and these sticks are regarded for providing high quality sound.
A typical or traditional drumstick has a tip, a shoulder, a shaft and a butt. The tip, which is also commonly referred to as a bead, is the topmost part of the drumstick, which is responsible for actually striking the head of the drum. Traditionally the tip of the drumstick is crafted from the same hard wood as the remainder of the stick, though there are also drum sticks that have plastic nylon tips depending on the sound that you are intending to create. Tips come in a variety of different shapes and sizes when it comes to drumsticks, including round tips, barrel tips, oval tips and acorn tips just to name a few. The area below the drumstick's head or tip is known as the shoulder. The shoulder is primarily used to strike the edge of a crash cymbal. The remaining part of the stick is the shaft, the part that is handled by the drummer, and the butt is the opposite of the tip, located at the very bottom of the drumstick.
Drum sticks always come available in pairs, and you can generally select from a wide and consistently growing range of colors and styles. Drum sticks come in metallic colors like metallic red, metallic black, metallic silver, metallic wine red, and metallic green and even metallic blue. Colorful sticks that have shiny metallic logos are excellent for many live performances. Some drummers prefer to simply play with natural wooden drum sticks, especially if they go through them quickly.
Electronic drum sticks have their own built in speakers and some offer pre recorded tunes. When these electronic drum sticks strike any time of surface, they create the unique, crashing sounds that are pre recorded. These electronic drum sticks make use of a LED (Light emitting Diode) that is placed at the tip of each stick, allowing you to create music even when you do not possess a full set of drums to play with. Electronic drumsticks are becoming increasingly popular among kids that are fond of the unique range of sounds that they produce.
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Originally posted 2008-12-11 05:25:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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August 10th, 2010 — Musical Instruments Drum, Types of Drums
Drums are percussive instruments that are most commonly constructed by stretching one of a couple of different types of membranes over the opening in a vessel. The most common property of the various different types of drums is the pitch that each drum offers. Drums are by far one of the oldest and one of the widest reaching musical instruments, because there are so many different types of drums out there.
The sound in a drum always originates from the same place, the vibration that is caused when the membrane is struck with another object like a hand or a drumstick, regardless of what type of drum you are dealing with or what it is constructed from. Drumheads can be made from a variety of different membrane materials, including the skin from goats, cows, sheep and antelopes, and synthetic materials as well. The types of drums that exist can vary significantly as they originate from a variety of places and are used for communication, for ritual and for entertainment all over the entire world.
The most common way to classify drums is to classify them by their shape. Most drums fall into one of the following categories: cylindrical drums, barrel drums, conga drums, waisted drums, goblet drums and bowl drums.
Frame drums have squat hoops and long drums are thin and tall, but both are cylindrical drum varieties. Barrels like Tabla drums, goblets like the Djembe drum and bowl drums like the Nakari are all named based on their shapes, allowing them to be easily recognized. The conga is a drum that tapers at the bottom, the waisted drum is one that tapers in the middle. The Changko has a cinched waist, making it a waisted variety.
Another way to classify drums based on type is to classify drums based on which side of the drum has the head. A drum can have a head either at both ends of the body or on only one end of the body. Conga drums and bowl drums for example only have a single head, but frame drums have a head on both sides. Some drums can be carried while you are dancing, walking or otherwise moving around, and other drums are intended to be stationary, such as the Djembe drum for example, which hails from Mali.
In addition to categorizing drums into different groups, you should also be aware of the fact that not all drums are tuned in a specific way. Many drums develop their tone based on their head size or the shape of their body. If you pull a cord or shift a peg, stretching the drum's head over its body, the pitch of the drum is adjusted.
Rock music in the western world involves drums that are non-pitched, like the snare drum or the bass drum in a drum set. These drums can also be used in combination with any key or harmony. Different drums in a single drum kit are also all capable of being categorized as different drums, as different drums and cymbals are combined in order to create a single drum set. Different music styles incorporate and implement different types of drums in different ways depending on what kind of sound you want to create.
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