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"The terms riff and fill are sometimes used interchangeably by musicians, but [while] the term riff usually refers to an exact musical phrase repeated throughout a song", a fill is an improvised phrase played during a section where nothing else is happening in the music. [2] While riffs are repeated, fills tend to be varied over the course of a ...
Two water drums. Water drums are a category of membranophone characterized by the filling of the drum chamber with some amount of water to create a unique resonant sound. Water drums are used all over the world, but are found most prominently in a ceremonial as well as social role in the Indigenous music of North America, as well as in African music.
A bedug is a large double-headed drum [2] with water buffalo or cow leather on both ends. [3] [1] Unlike the more frequently used kendang, the bedug is suspended from a frame and played with a padded mallet. The bedug is as large as or larger than the largest kendang and generally has a deeper and duller sound.
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A drum fill is used to "fill in" the space between the end of one verse and the beginning of another verse or chorus. Fills vary from a simple few strokes on a tom or snare, to a distinctive rhythm played on the hi-hat, to sequences several bars long that are short virtuosic drum solos. As well as adding interest and variation to the music ...
Linear drumming is a drum kit playing style in which no drum, cymbal, or other drum component hits simultaneously. Unlike other forms of time keeping and fills, there is no layering of parts. For example, if playing a cymbal, no other drum set voice, such as a snare or bass drum, would be hit at the same time.
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Garamut is a large ceremonial drum in the form of a wooden slit drum that is used in New Guinea's ritual music, to accompany songs and dances at village festivals (pidgin: Sing-sing) and as a news drum. A garamut is considered a sacred instrument, its production in a remote place is carried out according to traditional rules.