A drum roll (or roll for short) is a technique used by percussionists to produce a sustained sound for the duration of a written note. All drum figures...

head on the underside of the drum. Other techniques have been used to cause drums to make sound, such as the thumb roll. Drums are the world's oldest and...

as funk and rhythm and blues. The iconic drum roll is produced by alternately bouncing the sticks on the drum head, striving for a controlled rebound....

and complex drumming patterns. The term "drum rudiment" is most closely associated with various forms of field drumming, where the snare drum plays a prominent...

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the...

banjo Drum roll, a percussion technique Legato or rolls, a guitar technique Music roll, a storage medium to operate a mechanical instrument Roll, a Hungarian...

strings. The work is in standard four-movement form. After the opening drum roll, the bass instruments play a somber opening theme: As commentators have...

Freehand lace, a bobbin lace worked directly onto fabric Drum roll § Freehand technique, drumming technique Adobe FreeHand, software package Free Hand, a...

basic beat for rock and roll has the bass drum played on the first and third beats of bars in common time, with the snare drum on the second and fourth...

service, the phrase 'beat to quarters' indicated a particular kind of drum roll that ordered sailors to their posts for a fight where some would load...

Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats...

the Battle of Jutland. Reportedly, on HMS Royal Oak, a victory drum roll from a drum was heard when the Imperial German Navy surrendered in 1918. The...

along the head to produce a drum roll. The term pandeiro was previously used to describe a square double-skinned frame drum, often with a bell inside;...

may refer to: Abanico, the Spanish word for hand fan Abanico (music), a drum roll and rimshot played on timbales to introduce a new section Abanico ibérico...

whistle. Creating a drum roll on the other hand was a bit more complicated. A clockwork device was needed to time the strikes of the drum which required constant...

featured included the accordion, banjo, drum kit, and synthesiser. The music for the closing credits featured a drum roll introduction. Silly Wizard performed...

musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over...

no drums are present. UK hard house often uses a long and sharp string note to create suspense. Most of the time, the drops are introduced by a drum roll...

Drum tablature, commonly known as a drum tab, is a form of simplified percussion notation, or tablature for percussion instruments. Instead of the durational...

sets. They can be mounted, for example on a stand as part of a drum kit (and played with drum sticks), or they can be held in the hand and played by tapping...

most of them short. Examples of rudiments are the paradiddle and the drum roll. Rudiments are often practiced in the Open, closed, open method where...

drum brake is a brake that uses friction caused by a set of shoes or pads that press outward against a rotating bowl-shaped part called a brake drum....

may refer to: Taiko (太鼓) The Japanese word for drum often used to refer to any Japanese drum or drumming music Taikō (太閤) a title given to a retired Kampaku...

a single-stroke roll alternating between the snare drum and kick drum. The ride hand is usually playing in unison with the kick drum. The traditional...

by an actor miming a character called the "Gongman". His autobiography Drum Roll: A Professional Adventure from the Circus to the Concert Hall was published...

solo piano passage, then the solo cello enters. At the end, a timpani drum roll segues into the final movement. This movement is the heaviest, dancing...

drums with the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1974 to 1977 and from 1987 to 1991. He and his bandmates were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall...

of a stepped terrace typically used for choral performances. Palmer's drum roll connecting "Promenade" to the following section was added to give Emerson...

Rock and Roll Over is the fifth studio album by American rock band Kiss, released on November 11, 1976, by Casablanca Records. It was recorded at the Star...

A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary...