Wikipedia:WikiProject Percussion



Welcome to WikiProject Percussion, a WikiProject dedicated to creating and improving all percussion-related articles.

About WikiProject Percussion
Goals:
 * To improve percussion-related articles to good or featured standard. (Timpani had for a long time been our flagship article, but it is now a delisted FA.)
 * To improve categorization of percussion related articles.
 * To rate and review percussion related articles.
 * To compile a list of useful resources on percussion to use in article referencing and writing.

Scope:
 * All percussionist biographies and articles on percussion instruments, technique, and notation/composition.
 * This scope overlaps but is not a subset of that of WikiProject Musical Instruments, and is a subset of that of WikiProject Music.

Structure:
 * We are a rather small project, so having directors and coordinators seems like overkill. Unless our membership expands greatly, we are just a discussion and article improvement center.
 * Just like the sounds our instruments produce, many contributors give a short intense burst of activity, some give occasional, almost subliminal but important transients, and a few just keep pounding away. We welcome all.

Terminology: See WikiProject Percussion/Glossary which is a local work in progress.

Latest articles
• List of Nepali musical instruments complete overhaul, heavy on percussion, Nov 2020

• Simon Collins – 22 July 2013. Requesting rating, assessment.

• Tabla tarang – Created 11 August 2012

• Bombo (folk and popular drum) – improved on 4 August 2012

• Mangey – created 2 August 2012

• Sambal (drum) – created 21 July 2012

• Tbilat – created 21 January 2012

• E. M. Subramaniam (ghatamist)

• Umayalpuram K. Narayanaswamy

• Tbilat

• Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel

• Sudhirkumar Saxena

• Maram (drum)

• Padayani thappu

• Cajón de rumba

• Tafo Khan

• Pambai

• Gubguba

• Pat waing

Latest additions
Common images and additions to: huehuetl, pambai, barriles de bomba, bar chimes, pakhawaj, naqareh, goblet drum

Infoboxes: Add one to huehuetl

Suggested articles and additions

 * Strokes on the ghatam

Members
''Feel free to add yourself to the list, and to add WikiProject Percussion userbox to your user page. You might like to add both this page and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Percussion/In progress to your watchlist as well.''


 * Kakofonous&mdash;mainly a drum set player, novice at marimba, experience with a wide range of orchestral percussion instruments and some hand drums as well.
 * EvanSeeds&mdash;plays drum set (four years) and all orchestral percussion (seven years).
 * Badagnani&mdash;percussion music enthusiast, into contemporary classical music, world music, and all forms of the avant-garde.
 * Qzply&mdash; kit drummer, orchestral percussion, latin percussion, mallet percussion, marching percussion.
 * Andrewa&mdash;kit drummer (since 1974), jazz, rock and gospel, world music, cymbal enthusiast, interested in all genres
 * Brad Halls&mdash;rudimental drummer, member/instructor/arranger of marching bands & drum corps
 * Rm w a vu&mdash;classically trained A-muss player, now plays rock (quite a quantum leap). Also plays Jazz, Funk and teaches style extensively (I only teach experienced players, not beginners, any more).
 * Barkjon &mdash;mainly drum kit player, some djembe, plays some other percussion, loves Christian Rock and Alternative Rock, loves drums!
 * Philip.t.day &mdash; Orchestral Percussionist, and Drum Kit player. If you hit it, I like it! 12 years of experience as a Drummer, 7 years as an orchestral percusinist. I teach Drum Kit for pocket money to take to Uni.
 * Tpvibes &mdash; Jazz vibraphonist.
 * Mike &mdash; Rock, Jazz drummer, some guitar playing. Four years of experience.
 * Steve &mdash; classical percussion, specializing in battery; also jazz, rock, and funk drumset (8 years of experience)
 * Callum &mdash; Rock, Funk, and a little bit of Jazz. Interested in Electric Kits. Two years of experience
 * Opus88888 (talk) 15:20, 23 November 2009 (UTC) &mdash; rhythmic percussion aficionado
 * Tim (talk) 21:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC) &mdash; Multi-Percussionist from St. Louis, Missouri in the United States.
 * Timpguy22 (talk) 14:03, 28 January 2010 (UTC) &mdash; Orchestral percussion and timpani, jazz
 * Frederick Arciniegas (talk) Drummer with 18 years' experience. Attended Berklee College of Music. Also appears as Prince Frederick in the band The Charms. Afro-cuban and afro-venezuelan percussion studies at the Bigott Foundation.
 * MichiHenning (talk) Passionate djembe and dunun player and teacher.
 * yutsi (talk) &mdash; Concert percussionist, jazz drummer, and drumline enthusiast since 2010.
 * Smuckola Rudimental snare player, student of Mitch Markovich, authoring various percussion articles (Mitch Markovich, Frank Arsenault) and editing various others.
 * Pollack man34 Basic drum kit (plus another crash and second floor tom), 9 years' experience, specialize in rock, specifically AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and the Beatles. Helped expand articles John Bonham, Phil Rudd, Neil Peart, Ringo Starr and many more!
 * Dobbyelf62 - drum kit, cajon, hand drums, and assorted percussion
 * Dpepper73 - Started with piano lessons in 1981; Drummer/percussionist since 1984; started concentrating on the drumset in 1987; I still play piano but mainly for fun. I still play the drumset, sometimes professionally, sometimes not. And I still use the knowledge that I gained way back in 1984 when I practice and perform with my local community band.
 * Gudzwabofer (talk) - Piano for a while in primary school. Joined a brass band in high school and settled on percussion, have since played in a few rock bands and collected a few percussion instruments, most sadly in storage interstate at my parent's place, so I can't record them all for Wikimedia
 * tcxspears - Jazz drum set and percussion, as well as fife and drum, specializing in music from 1760s-1950s, attended New England Conservatory of Music
 * FiendYT - Intermediate pianist for more than 5 years. Have a collection of music theory books to use.
 * Ryukin - Pro drummer and percussionist, BA in Music, 23 years experience, private teacher, drum line instructor, concert percussion clinician, published author of several drum instruction books, multiple record deals.
 * 4and3and2and1 - Jazz drum kit and percussion enthusiast. Master's degree in Music Tech.

Tasks

 * Rate articles in Category:Percussion with our new assessment scale. ✅
 * Rate articles in Category:Percussion according to their level of importance to the subject.
 * Get started on Category:Percussionist stubs! When expanding stubs, be sure to submit any really interesting info to Did you know..?
 * Improve Portal:Percussion to featured portal standard. It is currently on peer review.
 * Get timpani listed as a good article, then relisted as an featured article.
 * Verify percussion articles. We currently have very few articles with appropriate amounts of referencing. Sadly, the vast majority of good percussion literature available online is not free (like the PAS archives and mammoth Grove encyclopedias.)
 * If you are able, record some samples for articles and upload them to Commons.
 * Look through the percussion category and find some good factoids for the percussion portal's DYK section.
 * Get list of percussion instruments to featured list status.
 * Take a stab at Category:Percussion instrument stubs.

Articles to create

 * George H. Way

See also:
 * Our core articles
 * In progress

Pictures required
The following articles still need copyright free pictures. So if any of you percussionists happen to have one lying around at home, please upload a photo to wikimedia and add it to both the article page and List of percussion instruments. • Alligator drum

• Bara (drum)

• Bo

• Bock-a-da-bock

• Bubon

• Cantaro

• Đàn tam thập lục

• Dohol

• Esterilla

• Flower drum

• Galgo

• Goema

• Gubguba

• Huiringua

• Igba

• Kepyak

• Keyboard glockenspiel

• Klong yao

• Kus

• Lion's roar (instrument)

• Lummi stick

• Makuta (drum)

• Malimbe

• Mangey

• Marching machine

• Ocean drum

• Pandero jarocho

• Pat waing

• Rakatak

• Ring-repique

• Silex Piano

• Tabla tarang

• Tassa

• Triccaballacca

• Tumba (drum)

• Yanggeum

• Yuka (music)

• Zatula

Assessment
See: WikiProject Percussion/Assessment

Articles

 * Template:Infobox instrument Infobox for musical instrument articles
 * Template:Infobox musical artist Infobox for articles on musicians
 * Template:Drum kit components Infobox for drum kit articles
 * Template:Percussion Footer template for percussion instrument articles
 * Template:Rudimental Percussion Footer template for rudimental percussion articles

Talk pages

 * Template:WikiProject Percussion header template for talk pages
 * /WPPerc recruit Recruitment template

Userbox

 * Template:WikiProject Percussion userbox

Barnstar

 * —an award placed at another users talk page for improving Percussion-related articles.

Categories
Expand by clicking the relevant arrow, or see WikiProject Percussion/Category tree for a more complete listing and description.

Collaboration of the Month
The collaboration of the month for September 2015 is List of percussion instruments. Feel free to nominate an article to replace it at WikiProject Percussion/Collaboration of the Month

Other resources

 * WikiProject Percussion/Percussion instrument article toolkit quick links to useful pages
 * WikiProject Percussion/Percussion instrument article skeleton Standard sidebar and footers all set up to copy and paste to a new article, or take sections of it to fix an old one
 * WikiProject Percussion/Lists of percussion instruments Proposed guideline
 * WikiProject Percussion/Resources List of useful external links and other sources

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Musical Instruments