Biography of the drum instrument

The history of drums the concept of the drum as old as humanity. The drum is called a membraneophone or tool that creates the sound from a blow to the stretched membrane of a certain object, usually a rounded stick. The drums consist of a hollow part called the body, a membrane extending to the end of the drum, and customizing keys or pins that compress or weaken the membrane to reach a different tone.

Despite the fact that you might think that the sound makes the body of the drum, in fact, sound is the merit of the membrane and its vibration. The drums first appeared in the GG. Mesopotamian excavations found small cylindrical drums dated GG. Several rock drawings found in the caves of Peru depict drums used in various aspects of social life. The Indians used pumpkin, as well as wooden drums for rituals and ceremonies.

Drums have always been used for more than just creating music. They were used in everyday life to transmit messages, but most often the drums were used in religious rites. Different civilizations used drums or similar instruments in order to fulfill music, warn about danger or instruct the army during the fighting. The drum was the best tool for performing such tasks, because it is easy to make, it creates a lot of noise and its sound spreads well over long distances.

In modern Europe, drums hit the Middle East. The prototype of a small military drum was borrowed from the Arabs in Spain and Palestine. A wide variety of its species today also testifies to the long history of the development of the tool. The drums of various shapes are known even in the form of sand clocks - BATA and dimensions up to 2 m in diameter. There are bronze, wooden drums without membranes; The so -called slit drums belong to the class of idiophones.

There were many slaves from their colonies for trading: Hindus, Africans, and thus, many diverse peoples were mixed in America, and everyone had their drum traditions. In this large boiler, a lot of ethnic rhythms and percussion instruments themselves were mixed. Black slaves from Africa mixed with local people, as well as with everyone who arrived in this country.

But they were not allowed to perform their indigenous music, which is why they had to create a certain type of set of drums with the addition of their national instruments. And no one could guess that these are drums by origin are African. Who needs the music of slaves? No one, and therefore, so far no one knew the true origin of the drums and rhythms that were played on them, black slaves allowed the use of such sets of drums.

In the 20th century, more and more people began to get involved in playing percussion instruments, many began to study African rhythms and perform them because they are very good and incendiary! More and more often they began to use plates for the game, their size increased, and the sound changed. Thus, the drums have transformed and have the form, almost the same as we have now.

With the advent of electrical musical instruments, like an electric guitar, an electororgan, an electric violin, etc. So you can choose the sounds that are needed for your style of music from a data bank. If you combine two acoustic and electronic drum sets, both of these sounds can be mixed and unlimited opportunities for creating a sound palette in a musical work.

From all of the above, one can draw an unambiguous conclusion: the modern Drumset was not invented by some individual at a certain time, in some place. This line developed at the beginning of the eight of the century, and was brought to perfection, both musicians and instruments. By the age of years, drummers began to adapt the drums of the traditional military orchestra for playing on stage.

They experimented with the placement of a small drum, bass barrels and volumes so that it was possible to play on all drums at the same time. At the same time, the New Orleans musicians developed the style of play based on collective improvisation, which is now called the word jazz. In, the drummer and manufacturer of percussion instruments, William F. Ludwig really made the first pedal for the bass of the drum.

Although for several years there have been other mechanisms controlled by a foot or manually, Ludwig's pedal allowed the bass to play the drum with his foot more quickly and easily, freeing the player’s hands to concentrate on a small drum and other instruments. By the years, the New Orleans drummers used a set consisting of a drum of the drum with a plate attached to it, a small drum, Chinese volumes, Cowbell cow bells, and small Chinese plates.

Similar sets, often with the complement of sirens, whistles, bird mankas, and so on. In the early years, appeared on the stage "Charleston" pedal.This invention consisted of a foot pedal attached to the rack on which small plates were wearing. Another name of the pedal "Low Boy" or "Tares for the toe". Around the year, drummers began to use the "Charles" pedal for playing in the orchestra, but its device was very low and plates of small diameter.

And now, starting from the year, improved "high hats", or hi hat, appeared. By the age of years, the set of drums was included by the bass drum, a small drum, one or several volumes, Zildjian "Turkish" plates are better than resonating and more musical than Chinese plates, a bell from the cowbell cow and wooden blocks. Of course, every drummer could collect his own combination.

Many used a variety of additions, such as vibrahon, bells, gongs and much more. During the years, the drum manufacturers more thoroughly developed and selected the components of the shock unit in order to respond to all requests of popular drummers. The racks became stronger, the suspension equipment is more convenient, the pedals worked faster. In the middle, with the advent of new musical directions and styles, minor changes were made to the drum kit.

The bass drum has become smaller, plates, increased slightly, and in general, the kit remained unchanged. Drumset began to grow again in the early years, from the moment when the second bass was used. At the end, Evans and Remo mastered the production of plastic membranes, thereby freeing drummers from the quirks of calf skins sensitive to the weather. To strengthen the sound of drums, which began to drown the guitars connected to amplifiers, in the years, rock-drummers began to use deeper and more voluminous drums.

The origin of drum installations drum installations - that is, groups of various tuned drums, originated during the military parades and marches in New Orleans. It was found that one drummer could play more than on one drum at the same time. The plates and the Tamtams, which were invented in China, were subsequently added to drum plants. Such shock elements as bells, wooden blocks and bell sets were also included.

To the gg. The kit consists of a bass drum, a foot pedal, a trap, a small drum, tamtama, small plates and large suspended plates. In g. A large bell and plates were added, as well as the second bass drum to increase speed. Electronic drums were also developed that could create sounds inaccessible to traditional drums. They introduced synthesized drum sounds used in many modern musical styles.

The composition of the standard shock installation includes Crash Crash plates, Ryd Ride, Hi-Hat Hi-Hat, high volume High Tom, the low volume of Middle Tom-Tom-both are called altas, small drum Snare Drum, half-tom, Floor Tom-Tom and Bas-Bashed "Barrel", Bass Drum. The plates are placed on special racks and in height are placed at the level just above the Tomom Crash and Ryd.

Hi-Hat Hi-Hat plates are two identical in appearance, but different in height of the sound, TOP and Bottom plates, which are placed on the same rack with a pedal associated with the rod. The first plate is put on the rod down the dome, and the second, on the contrary, is attached to the rod with a clamp. When pressing the pedal, the plates are in contact with the edges around the perimeter of the edge and make a characteristic sound.

The pedal with a block is attached to the bass drum, the blow is made when pressed with a foot. In heavy music, metal, hard rock, etc. Also, drummers use additional plates of Splash Splash, China Shina, etc. Sometimes two hi-charts are also used. The history of the early shock attitudes were known as Trap Kits The short advertising name, they were one of the most modern tools of the membranophone family.

Typically, there were a bass drum in the set, a small drum on a stand, a small plate and other percussion instruments attached to a bass drum or a small table. On all these instruments, with the exception of bass drum, they played with sticks or brushes. The bass drum was periodically kicking with a foot to extract sound, which is why the name Kick Drum was still left.

Nowadays, the bass drum is always controlled by the pedal. Sometimes they play even two pedals to achieve a greater frequency of shock. Part of the name Trap Set has passed into the modern term Trap Case, which is called COFR, used to transport stands, pedals, sticks and various percussion tools. Notification of the designation in the notes was originally a shock installation in a bass vein.

Currently, a neutral key of two parallel vertical lines is usually used. There are a lot of methods for recording a batch of shock installation on a standard musical camp. Usually, at the beginning of each batch, a decoding of the location of the tools and all the signs encountered is given.Below is the most common version of the notation of drums.