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Drumming Instruction DVDs

Welcome to the drumming instructional DVDs page. Here we will get to see which drumming DVDs are getting the four & five star customer reviews. We will begin with a brief overview of Percussion instruments.Most percussion instruments have a distinct tone; even drums are tuned. However, a distinction is usually made based on whether the instrument can play a definite pitch or not.

The timpani, xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, bell, tubular bells, crotales and glockenspiel all play a definite pitch.

The snare drum, bass drum, afuche, castanets, claves, cowbell, cymbal, doyra, güiro, maracas, mendoza, ratchet, spoons, temple blocks, tom-tom, timbales, triangle, vibraslap, washboard, whip and wood block do not in general.

However, some percussionists tune drum heads to specific pitches when recording albums or in preparation for specific composer requirements. Gongs can be tuned or untuned – the most familiar type of gong in the west, the chau gong (sometimes called a tam-tam), is untuned. Tuned cymbals exist but are rare.

The two major categories are membranophones, which add timbre to the sound of being struck, such as drums, and idiophones, which sound of themselves, such as the triangle. The tambourine is both membranophone and idiophone, having both a head and jingles.