In fact, we will be forced to view the drums as playing in half-time throughout the entire song.
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According to villagers interviewed, the dead holy person disliked the sound of drums, and their playing was thus forbidden for fear of retribution.
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The small amount of refuse present at the time of sampling included gas cylinders, pipes, metal fragments, cans, glass, vehicle batteries, and empty fuel drums.
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The primary musical accompaniment, as remains the case today, is provided by talempong, bronze kettle drums struck with beaters.
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Artificial burrows, made from 200-l steel drums, were used to sample these flies and to collect their puparia.
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The inhabitants had practically identical possessions-a set of pots, same brand of cooking stoves, water storage drums, a few glasses and plates.
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Sessions of storytelling involve some or all of the following: singing, drumming, dancing and dramatisation.
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At this time traps, designed for speed and ease of collecting termites, were placed on top of drums and milk-cartons.
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No one today exactly remembered the gongs and drums.
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The drums are normally referred to in songs as 'pans' and 'tin cans', of which the principle characteristic is the volume of sound produced.
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There are around a dozen heraldic flourishes involving trumpets, drums and ordnance.
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The snare drum's melodic character derives in part from the range of timbres the drummer gets out of it.
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Grounding the surface noise are some loops of processed drums.
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The drums are enough to tell you what kind of song it is - dance music - but they're not sufficient to constitute the whole song.
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While the technologies of instrument construction and recording have become more sophisticated, for some musicians and listeners, today's drums don't sound better.
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Collocationswithdrum
drum
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conga drum
He invented and patented the tunablecongadrum(earlier drums had nailed heads) which revolutionized use of the instrument.
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drum circle
He is seen by many as the person who conceived and developed the idea of the facilitated communitydrumcircle.
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drum corps
Around this time,drumcorpsbegan experimenting with marching timpani as well as duo and tri toms.
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