Whether you are planning to learn a percussion instrument or want to switch from one to another, you need to check out some good percussion instruments for beginners. There are plenty of choices ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. What is a percussion instrument? Well, in the simplest terms it's something ...

Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...

The UAB Summer Percussion Camp will consist of five days of instruction during the week of June 23 through June 27, and will feature group lessons, specialty sessions, and masterclasses. The camp ...

What is a percussion instrument? A percussion instrument is any musical instrument that’s played by being struck or scraped – that could be by a beater like a drum stick, by the player’s hand, or by ...

Roughly speaking, there are two broad families of instrument that you're likely to come across when dealing with sampled percussion libraries. The first is orchestral percussion - timpani, snare drum, ...

Darbuka, also known as doumbek (or tumbak), or derbeki, is a Middle Eastern percussion instrument. The goblet-shaped single headed hand-drum is an ancient drum. It was originally played in Egypt, ...

Greg Ellis, the American drummer who was in the city, talks about the origin of drums and his fascination with the instrument. "The drums always came first," he says, adding, "Just like the heartbeat ...