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I'm curious what the role of drums in modern music is. Is the general consensus that music sounds better with drums? Are drums needed for bands to keep time with each other? Musicians, please elaborate.

[edit] Drums

Drumming is an art which adds colour just like any other instrument, its an accompaniment. Art! NO rules!--[[User:220 Hey, there's a problem with the linking to other Wikipedias of this article. Drum links to Spanish "Barril" (Barrel), what, simply, doesn't mean the same thing. As a confirmation you have the link to barrel from Spanish Wikipedia's Barrel.

--GTubio 18:56, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Improvement drive

A related topic, Percussion instrument has been nominated to be improved on WP:IDRIVE. Come and support the nomination there or comment on it.--Fenice 06:52, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question:

Can somebody tell me where can I find the list "The Best Drummers in The World"? Aeternus 19:02, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

There is no "best drummers in the world", and I don't believe there is a best drummer in the world. But DigitalDreamDoor.com has some lists like that including 100 Best Rock Drummers and Most Skilled Drummers. -- Case Of The Punks

[edit] Question#2:

Hi I posted link at the external links section, to DrumSoloArtist.com and CambridgeBayWeather has removed it I want to have an explanation of why the link has been removed, as I think that DrumSoloArtist.com has LOTS of info on Drum And Drummers, like lots of drum related techniques, drum forum, drum wiki - where drummers submit all kinds of drum related articles, drummers community portal, and one of the biggest drummers lists on the web - just to name a few. Here is the link to the differences between pages http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drum&curid=7950&diff=46866133&oldid=46462063 Thanks in advance.

There are hundreds of drum related sites on the web. Wikipedia is not a link farm, and is not the place for an inclusive list of drumming resources. Please read WP:EL for more information. Rather than adding just a link, try adding to the article using info from DrumSoloArtist.com, then list the site as a reference. Incidentally, there are other links in the external links section that are of questionable value. Strobilus 17:20, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nowhere near enough

This article is nowhere near finished. Drums have been around for thousands of years, with uses ranging (over those years) from tribal ritual, religious practices, warnings and alarms, battle taunts/military marches, from accentuating notes and ornaments in music right back to the baroque period up until now in modern music. Not to mention electronic substitutes in dance/electronica music.

There is a wealth of history in the drum that far exceeds any other musical instrument. We need some good experts on the subject to expand this article much, much further. I've put a banner up to encourage expansion. Have a look at how well the guitarists have done with theirs. -- IanUK 21:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Check out my link

Hey guys, im trying to get my site rolling, and it has lots of free information for drummers. By the time we are done, we will have drum beats for every genre, complete with notation and sound clips. We already have most genres completed. www.drummingstyles.com - check it out and let me know if you like it by adding it to the main page under External Links. I didnt want to do it myself because that isn't fair to do in the wikipedia community, right? Thanks in advance

[edit] Drum kit?

Why does it have that drum kit components thing? This article is about drums not the drum kit. If there would just be an image of a drum kit it would be OK but this article is not the place to read about drum kits. There's another article for that.

I agree.......... you didn't sign your comment by the way ... Don't forget the 4 tildes Freddythehat 20:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Music therapy

Drums are used often in music therapy. I've added an article stating such from the washington post, but there are thousands of other such articles that can provide similar sourcing. The music therapt mention should probably be expanded, disussing how instruments can be used with individual clients and with groups, and how drums have been found as a particularly useful tool to do so.leontes 05:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

It sounds as though it should be a separate article (Drums in music therapy). --Mel Etitis (Talk) 10:01, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

heh. I meant only a couple of sentences explaining more detail. Mind you, if it ever becomes unwieldy, it certainly could be moved to a new article.leontes 14:04, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How do drums create soound?

This, I think, should be heading on the "Drum" page. Because it should explain how sound works as well

[edit] history - drumming on stalagmites?

I was just watching a David Attenborough show called Song of the Earth (2000) [1] and Graeme Lawson, archaeologist from Cambridge University claimed that cavemen drummed on stalagmites and other stone/rock surfaces in caves ('played them like xylophones'). If true it would be interesting to add to history, as it would push back the "first drums" date quite a bit (10s of thousands of years). Sbwoodside 18:31, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I found some stuff: see lithophone and sections 3.6 and 3.7 (and maybe more) of this paper [2] Sbwoodside 18:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't seem relevant to drums (which, by definition, have some sort of membrane make the sound), but to percussion. The oldest perucssion instruments are far older than the oldest drums, as they are much simpler to make, and, indeed, like stagmites, appear ready-made in nature. Rigadoun (talk) 20:16, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Box drum

What is that drum thats shaped like a box called? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.29.155.141 (talk) 21:37, 30 January 2008 (UTC) a drum makes a noise.