Feel The Pain And Your Heart Beats When You Play The Drums On Certain Beats

When you talk about drumming, you should also know about drums and various kinds of drums. The drum set is unique among musical instruments. Its individual parts originated from all over the world over thousands of years. Percussion and drums can be defined broadly as an instrument that must be struck with a mallet or shaken to produce a sound. The surface can be made of animal hide, wood, metal, or really anything that produces sound. The mallet or beater which is used to produce the sound can be pretty much anything including a human hand. Drums include a variety of instruments that make similar sounds to a piano; such as a xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, etc. Percussion instruments that must be shaken are mostly made up of contained beads or metal. The most famous percussion instrument, the snare, also has beads with adjustable tension along with metal disks for additional sound. All of these instruments go back thousands of years to around 6000 B.C., and it is believed that percussion instruments were the first musical instruments ever invented. Ancient Africans used drums as a form of communication, to send signals. When drums were first invented, they were made out of natural materials such as animal hides. Since drum sticks were not around then, people would simply use their hands. From there onward drums have evolved by the people and cultures that made them and the styles of music they were designed to play. Today, advancements are still being made in what was once a very simple instrument. There is a wide variety of drums, which vary depending on their purpose.

There is one interesting story about the origin of drums and this story is so old it surpasses the title ancient. Of course, there are those that say the drum is merely a tool to help those that cannot hear the beat in the world that was always there. That may be so, but the reason the drum came into being wasn’t to help those that couldn’t hear the cosmic beat; it came as a gift of grief. The characters in this story didn’t have names because they didn’t know words. They didn’t know much, in fact, except that in the wide, wild and fearful places there was comfort in each other. As the story goes; two of these creatures got separated from their troop and could not find their way back to the others. From then, they started living together until one of them died and this is how the other one felt the pain and started beating his chest in utmost grief. To know more about this heart breaking story, you must ask your drum teachers  Swansea, Neath.