DRUM

 

1.      Sense of Drum

Drums are a group of percussion instruments consisting of leather stretched and crushed with a hand or a bar. Besides leather, drums are also made from other materials, such as plastics. Drum are all over the world and have many types, such as kendang, tympani, bodhran, ashiko, snare drum, bass drum, tom-tom,and others. Usually drums refer to a drum kit or drum set, especially for music such as pop, rock, and jazz. Drum set or drum kit is a group of drums consisting of several elements, such as snare drum, tom-tom, bass drum, cymbal, hi-hat. The person who plays the drum is called the drummer.

2.      Drum History

Drums are the oldest tools in the world. The age of the drum instrument it self as old as the history of human civilization. The most primitif form of drums is a lage wooden and long, and there is a hole extending in the middle. How to hit the drum is use alu, that is stick big and long stick. The next development is, when the drums are made using logs.

The first society to use musical instruments in percussion is the ancient African human society. In this ancient period, drums were also used only as codes to communicate and call other tribes. In the African continent, a lot of ancient drum fossils are found. In subsequent developments, the previous drum element consisted of only bass drum, began to be added with other elements such as tom-tom, but not yet in the stem, The pioneer company of drum maker is premier coming from english and ludwig coming from america.

            In the mid-1950s and 1960s, rock n roll music began to grow. Drum devices used by rock n roll drummers in this period still use the form of a jazz drum device consisting of bass, snare, two tom-tom, ride cymbals, and crash cymbal. The famous rock n roll drummer is ringo (the beatles). In 1970 was born the era of hard rock music, which is a rock music that is louder than rock n roll. Rock drummer added other drum equipment, to make his voice more varied. Such as the number of tom-tom that are propagated.

            In those days, the famous hard rock drummers were John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) and Ian Paice (Deep Purple). In 1980 found an electronic drum. The first elektronic drum was simmons drum SDS V. Rhythm or commonly referred to as drum program. The famous drum brands of the time were Ronald TR 505 and Ronald Drummatix. In the late 1980s found a double pedal system. This double pedal system with two beather and batter. This allows drummers to play double bass drum. Today, drum technologhy is rapidly growing, with the use of digital drum technologhy, or computer drum technologhy, or computer drum. Example so fold drum brands hat are still actively producing, and able to survive are premier, ludwig, slingerland, and gretch.