Talk:Drum

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)

OK, thanks Mohamed aisar (talk) 09:56, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

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)

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

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)

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)

Caution is advised however, as an encyclopedia is not intended to be an exhaustive authority on a subject. For that, we have the further reading section. The bass guitar editors learned their lesson the hard way :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kudpung (talk • contribs) 17:41, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

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)

I agree and have inserted a more appropriate imageDanJazzy (talk) 18:19, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

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)

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

There is a section on how drums make sound. It links to other, more sound orientated pages for your second idea. 72.48.20.210 (talk) 01:10, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

history - drumming on stalagmites?
I was just watching a David Attenborough show called Song of the Earth (2000) 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 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)
 * Not all drums have membranes, take a Log Drum for example, but I agree with your point, the action of drumming, to Drum, is not the point of this article, and does belong in Percussion instruments Philip.t.day (talk) 19:24, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Eyy 2405:8D40:4109:6EE5:178F:6C35:D453:BF96 (talk) 06:31, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

"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

A Cajon is most likely what you are talking about. https://thenationalparksmusic.com/best-cajon/ 72.48.20.210 (talk) 01:07, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

removed text
''All types of drums, such as timpani for example, are tuned to a certain pitch. Often, several drums, other than timpani drums, can be arranged together to create a drum kit.''

(The reflist is just so this formats properly of course. Despite the name=Black parameter, this ref doesn't seem to be used elsewhere in the article at present.)

The first paragraph is just plain misleading at best, and possibly POV. I think the editor must have misunderstood the ref. The second is vague, I hope my replacement is a bit more informative and dare I say accurate. Andrewa (talk) 18:17, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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Talk with mohamed aisar
To give people who is complaining about my editing a piece of my mind Mohamed aisar (talk) 09:56, 9 October 2020 (UTC)