percussion
20
3.8
- noun
- /pərˈkʌʃən/
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percusión
- She joined the school band and was excited to try out the different percussion instruments.
- percussion instruments
- percussion ensemble
- percussion section
It's start, it's done kind of solo with no percussion, just melody.
- It's start, it's done kind of solo with no percussion, just melody.
- Like, what a cool way to make learning percussion playful.
- She played percussion in Yeria Vergies and and I played drums.
- But in my part time I build percussion instruments and make music trying to make that my full time.
- Wait, I, no, that has like some percussion.
- It's essentially one giant percussion thing that you can use in various ways.
- Carol Kay played bass, Amel Richards on percussion.
- Timpani, mallets, multiple percussion and stare at them.
- So I had an Afro Brazilian group, The sweetest people you'd ever meet, voice and percussion.
- Brass, percussion, solo baritone, baritone rising over the coral bloom.
Examples
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The drummer played the percussion instruments with great skill during the concert.
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Each group chose how its final composition would be performed: using voices, body percussion, percussion instruments, or a combination.
Academic text (2011) -
But in my part time I build percussion instruments and make music trying to make that my full time.
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- It's a percussion instrument!
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Were there enough music stands, percussion equipment, and other equipment that should have been provided?
Academic text (1992) -
Please welcome the Queen of Percussion, the one and only Sheila E.
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And finally the percussion family, all those drums and gongs and things you hit.
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Percussion instruments are my speciality.
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The fourth and fifth-grade students enjoyed performing a simple blues piece for woodwind and percussion instruments.
Academic text (2008) -
Better textbooks for collegiate percussion methods classes have also contributed to improved percussion pedagogy.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
3
3.3
A thing you hit, shake, or scrape to make sound in music
1
3.5
A group of musicians who play instruments you hit, like drums and cymbals
A musical instrument you play by hitting, shaking, or scraping, like a drum
Compounds
How Loud
- Specialized
5
3.0
30
3.2
3
3.5
21
3.4
20
3.8
7
5.3
7
2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Percussion comes from an old Latin word percutere, which means 'to strike'. That's why percussion instruments are the ones you play by hitting, shaking, or scraping to make sound, like drums or tambourines.