An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

Its name can be connected to drum and bass or Miami Bass, whose influence can still be heard in Bass music's edgey raw energy.

* Black Sun Empire, a Dutch drum & bass band

John Adams, known by baseball fans as " The Drummer ", has played a bass drum at nearly every home game since 1973.

Drum and bass () ( also written as drum ' n ' bass and commonly abbreviated to D & B, D + B or DnB ) is a type of electronic music which emerged in the mid 1990s.

* History of drum & bass, a BBC timeline on the history of drum & bass with track listings, quotes and samples

Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.

* A bass drum, played by a pedal operated by the right foot.

Kit with bass drum pedal and low sock, 1935

The bass drum, snare drum, cymbals and other percussion instruments were all played using hand-held drum sticks.

Liberating the hands for the first time, this evolution saw the bass drum played ( first standing ) with the foot of a percussionist and became the central piece around which every other percussion instruments would later revolve.

Ludwig-Musser, William F. Ludwig Senior and his brother Theodor Ludwig founded the Ludwig & Ludwig Co. in 1909 and patented the first workable bass drum pedal system, paving the way for what was to become the modern drum kit.

By World War I drum kits were characterized by very large bold marching bass drums and many percussion items suspended on and around them, and they became a central part of jazz music, specifically ( but not limited to ) dixieland.

By the 1930s, Ben Duncan and others popularized streamlined trap kits leading to a basic four piece drum set standard: bass, snare, tom-tom, and floor tom.

In time legs were fitted to larger floor toms, and " consolettes " were devised to hold smaller tom-toms on the bass drum.

Bristol's soundsystem DJs, drawing heavily on Jamaican dub music, typically used a laid-back, slow and heavy drum beat (" down tempo ").

The first MCs rapped over DJs swapping back and forth between two copies of the same record playing the same drum break, or playing instrumental portions or versions of a broad range of records.

This may occur because the tempo of breaks tracks ( ranging from 110 to 150 beats per minute ) means they can be readily mixed with these genres, whereas the comparatively fast speed of jungle and drum and bass ( 160-180 bpm ) may have restricted the utility of these subgenres to DJs playing slower-tempo music.

Hip hop DJs and producers had been mining electronic sounds to create beats since Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash pioneered the use of drum machines and synthesizers in the early 1980s, and the hip hop genre shared with other forms of electronic music an emphasis on sampling.

This evolution took many shapes and forms: some continued to concentrate on the foundations of the art form and its original links to hip hop culture, some became producers utilising the skills they'd learnt as turntablists and incorporating those into their productions, some concentrated more on the DJing aspect of the art form by combining turntablist skills with the trademark skills of club DJs, while others explored alternative routes in utilising the turntable as an instrument or production tool solely for the purpose of making music-either by using solely the turntable or by incorporating it into the production process alongside tools such as drum machines, samplers, computer software, and so on.

General Levy ( born Paul Levy, 28 May 1971, London, England ) is a British born ragga vocalist, regularly employed on studio tracks by drum and bass DJs.

Counterstrike also known as Animal Chin and 500 Mills, have been active drum ' n bass DJs and producers since the mid-1990s.

Before starting work on the album, the band toured with Full Cycle DJs Krust and Die ( in fact, their band with Roni Size, Reprazent, won the Mercury Prize in 1997 and thus put the kibosh on a notion to have them produce )-- and by a scattershot approach to production: Tchad Blake ( Soul C's Ruby Vroom, Latin Playboys, Sheryl Crow ) Pat Dillett ( They Might Be Giants, Doveman, Mary J. Blige ), and British drum and bass DJ Optical ( Goldie, Grooverider, Ed Rush.

Tracks from the album have been immensely popular with drum and bass DJs, the likes of Goldie, Zero Tolerance and High Contrast using tracks from Overflow in their live mixes.

As a clubland promoter, he ran popular house music, techno, and drum and bass clubs in Bradford, called Tolerance, before moving on to Leeds, where he promoted the successful Soundclash club happenings bringing in respected DJs such as Andrew Weatherall, Alex Patterson, Adrian Sherwood and J. Saul Kane.

Tony Colman now DJs drum and bass solo under the name of London Elektricity.

In June, Glade Festival officially announced the drum & bass line-up at the festival, with DJs Andy C, Marky, Noisia, Fresh, Cyantific, Phantasy, Mr Nice, Maxxi P alongside MCs Gq, Ic3, Bensta, Script and Johnny G taking over the Vapor Stage.

In addition to drum and bass, the magazine also regularly features reviews of dubstep, breakbeat and hip hop releases, and throughout its publication history has also regularly included cover CDs of mixes from guest DJs along with accompanying articles in the magazine.

After the release of yet another hybridized album-1996's Tones For The 21st Century-Haynes discovered drum ' n ' bass and began working with some of the genres finest DJs and producers in London and the U. S. This manifested in the release of 2000s BPM, a fusion of drum n ' bass beats with the classical music of Richard Wagner.

Formed in Minneapolis in 1999, Lateduster was originally an instrumental sextet called Cropduster, with a symmetrical lineup of two guitars, two full drum kits and two DJs on four turntables.

Urban Takeover is a drum and bass record label founded by DJs and recording artists Micky Finn and Aphrodite.

The name dubplate also refers to an exclusive, ' one-off ' acetate disc recording pioneered by reggae sound systems but also used by drum and bass and other dance music artists, DJs and sound systems.

DJs sometimes have to use equipment with multiple cable types, which can create connection difficulties ; for example, the DJ's record players and DJ mixers all use RCA connectors, but if they use a drum machine or a bass synthesizer, it may have a 1 / 4 inch mono connector.

Not long afterwards, Angel received many invitations, and gained much respect from European artists, becoming part of the Phaze One team together with the drum & bass DJs Fabio and Grooverider ( who used to play styles from house to hardcore at that time ).

Pioneered by figures like Club Rage DJs Fabio and Grooverider, in the mid-1990s the genre expanded from an underground and pirate radio scene to form sub-genres including the intelligent drum and bass pioneered by LTJ Bukem, and the ambient jungle of Goldie's crossover debut Timeless ( 1995 ) and the jazzstep of Roni Size's Mercury Award-winning New Forms ( 1997 ).

* Other: Correspondences include blood, the guitar, thunder, drum beat rubies and in writing fire is sometimes represented by a red upwards triangle.

Prior to the invention of tension rods drum skins were attached and tuned by rope systems such as that used on the Djembe or pegs and ropes such as that used on Ewe Drums, a system rarely used today, although sometimes seen on regimental marching band snare drums.

Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums, ( 和太鼓, " wa-daiko ", " Japanese drum ", in Japanese ) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming ( sometimes called more specifically, " kumi-daiko " ( 組太鼓 )).

His # 1 R & B hit that year, " Cold Sweat ", sometimes cited as the first true funk song, was the first of his recordings to contain a drum break and the first that featured a harmony that was reduced to a single chord.

The Bottler might also play accompanying music or sound effects on a drum or guitar and engage in back chat with the puppets, sometimes repeating lines that may have been difficult for the audience to understand.

His early tracks are somewhat ambient, but already feature the rhythm pattern of his seminal 1997 work Modus Operandi, which embodies most of his mid-nineties style: atmospheric, but at the same time very cold and paranoid, consisting mostly of jazz-influenced, highly complex drum patterns and sequenced double bass lines, sometimes with minimalistic synth melodies on top.

Most consumer and small business laser printers use a toner cartridge that combines the photoreceptor ( sometimes called " photo conductor unit " or " imaging drum ") with the toner supply bin, the waste toner hopper, and various wiper blades.

Where the drum is pinched between two shoes, similar to a conventional disc brake, it is sometimes called a " pinch drum brake ", although such brakes are relatively rare.

Breakbeat ( sometimes breakbeats or breaks ) is a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4 / 4 drum pattern ( as opposed to the steady beat of house ).

The drum and percussion are often loud in this genre of music and are sometimes the only instruments to back up the vocal.

At the time Nielsen was writing the Fifth Symphony, with its sometimes violent disruption by the snare drum, he also produced the Wind Quintet, Op.

These confederations are sometimes called " Drum Groups " after the Amenokal's symbol of authority, a drum.

Synthpop was defined by its primary use of synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers, sometimes using them to replace all other instruments.

The basic timpani drum consists of a drumhead stretched across the opening of a bowl typically made of copper or, in less expensive models, fiberglass and sometimes aluminum.

The pedal on a balanced action drum is sometimes called a floating pedal since there is no clutch holding it in place.

Non-competitive classic-style corps ( often and sometimes inaccurately known as " alumni corps ") saw a renaissance beginning in the mid-1980s and they continue to organize in the 21st Century ; members often remain vigilant about the traditions and virtues of the drum corps activity before the advent of more modern influences.

He never put anything inside his bass drum ( although his band members have said that he would sometimes fill it with crumpled tin foil, so that it would project ).

Instruments usually include one or more electric guitars, an electric bass guitar, a drum kit and sometimes electric keyboards or synthesizers.

The electric guitar, bass guitar and drum kit are the most common instruments used to play doom metal, although keyboards are sometimes used.

In Eastern Europe percussion was often provided by a drummer who played a frame drum, or a poyk, sometimes called baraban.

Mahler uses cymbal, bass drum, oboes, clarinets and a trumpet duo to produce the sound of a small klezmer band ; Mahler's use of klezmer is sometimes accredited to his Jewish roots.

He often recorded home demos with nothing more than a guitar and a drum machine, sometimes a bass player with him as well.

Various methods of producing the sound have involved a wooden mallet striking a wooden surface, a sledgehammer striking a wooden box, or a particularly large bass drum, or sometimes simultaneous use of more than one of these methods .</ small >

The songs are sometimes preceded by improvised alap to sketch the basic raga structure without drum accompaniment ; alap is given much less room in khyal than in dhrupad.