Whether you are planning to learn a percussion instrument or want to switch from one to another, you need to check out some good percussion instruments for beginners. There are plenty of choices ...

Recipients of the 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant Award, Sandbox Percussion has sought to expand the breadth of percussion as an art form. One of their favorite things to do is to work with modern ...

Darbuka, also known as doumbek (or tumbak), or derbeki, is a Middle Eastern percussion instrument. The goblet-shaped single headed hand-drum is an ancient drum. It was originally played in Egypt, ...

Roughly speaking, there are two broad families of instrument that you're likely to come across when dealing with sampled percussion libraries. The first is orchestral percussion - timpani, snare drum, ...

The percussionist, whose Metal Wood Skin festival continues in London, explains how music became a lifelong inspiration Metal Wood Skin, my percussion festival at London’s Southbank Centre, is a ...

Andrew Busch says he has played around 50 instruments throughout his career as a percussionist. Busch, who's originally from Amherstburg, Ont., was named to the 2024 edition of CBC Music's 30 hot ...

The CU Boulder College of Music’s percussion studio is taking bold steps forward with a revamped curriculum and a renewed focus on versatility, collaboration and joy in music making. Associate ...

After serving as a percussion professor at the University of Arkansas for 50 years, Chalon Ragsdale has decided to put down the drum sticks and retire. Ragsdale came to campus in 1975 when he was just ...

A group of Herriman high school band students are headed to the “Olympics” of percussion competition just three years after the indoor band program got revamped. The Mountain Ridge High School winter ...

BENGALURU: Fusion percussion seems to be the new tabla or veena. It is only the second month of 2024 and the city has hosted two percussion-focused music festivals with sell-out crowds.Five-time ...