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Musical equipment
Any device used to create sound, especially musical instruments.
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bearing edge
Musical equipment; Drums
the edge of the drum that the head sits on. Bearing edges are often sharpened to a smaller angle for greater attack, projection and evenness of tone.
tom-tom (or tom)
Musical equipment; Drums
a single drum. Also, mounted drums on a drumset, most commonly played with drum fills.
tone
Musical equipment; Drums
(African term) The middle note of 3 basic djembe notes. This is played at the rim of the drums with the fingers hitting the skin flat and at the same time. See our other article ...
beat displacement
Musical equipment; Drums
a term popularized in drumming over the last 10 years. It refers to permutation where all beats will move forward say, one eighth note. This method will create numerous variations ...
toubab
Musical equipment; Drums
(African term) foreigner (usually means white person in bamana or maninka)
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