For example, during a war between Qi and Lu in 684 BC, the effect of drum on soldier's morale is employed to change the result of a major battle.

There are occasional, more flashy variations, such as the windmill action of the saluting arm for the Madison Scouts drum major, or running the saluting hand around the brim of the aussie instead of snapping it down from the Cavaliers.

* instructing players located near the back of the field watch the drum major, and all other players to " listen back ", playing along with those watching the drum major ;

Another tradition that features the sousaphone section is after every pre-game show at Florida State University when the section ( known by all the marching band members as " Flush ") run in a circle around the Seminole head on the field with the head drum major in the center of the circle.

Some of the major components of the drum brake assembly are the back plate, the brake drum and shoe, the wheel cylinder, and various springs and pins.

They later ended up in a major patent fight with Technitrol Engineering, who introduced a drum memory of their own in 1952.

From the 1950s until 2000, all drum and bugle corps were required to use instruments pitched in the key of G. That year, Drum Corps International changed its rules again, allowing instruments in any key, with most other major organizations ( e. g. Drum Corps Associates ) following suit soon after.

* Robert Steele ( drum major )-drummer boy for the Continental Army during the Battle of Bunker Hill of the Revolutionary War ; buried in the Old Westwood Cemetery.

The band has almost tripled in size, received numerous awards including best drumline, best drum major, and has had continuous success at competitions receiving all superior and excellent ratings.

After his death, the final nine bars of the movement contain a victorious series of G major chords played by the brass, along with the drum rolls of the snare drums, along with the entire orchestra, seemingly intended to convey the cheering of the onlooking throng.

This was the first major label album to feature a drum machine.

Gerpinnes: the drum major

* The drum major at the front of a marching band may use a mace to communicate movement and musical cues.

A major requirement for a one-piece camcorder was miniaturizing the recording head drum, and Sony's solution to this involved a nonstandard video signal which would become standard only when played back on full-sized VCRs.

Another major setback was the death of Fitzhugh Lee in 1905 while traveling in New England to drum up trade for the celebration.

Conductors of military bands and other bands may hold the title of bandmaster, or drum major.

Front: drum major of the regular army.

The overtone series is an octave above that of the F horn, exactly like playing the lower portion of a horn in F. Many drum and bugle corps, however, use mellophones pitched in G, although the number has dwindled somewhat since the two major United States drum and bugle corps circuits ( first Drum Corps International and then Drum Corps Associates ) passed rule changes allowing use of bell-front instruments in any key ( although corps using mellophones pitched in G typically have the whole of their brass section also using G instruments, whereas those using mellophones pitched in F generally have the remainder of their brass section using B ♭).

The only major changes from the gunner's perspective were dropping of most of the drum-feed options, leaving the weapon to fire with a loose belt of ammunition or from a single 50-round drum shaped belt container fitted to the gun's receiver, and simplifying the weapon's open sights for aiming purposes ; all these changes being intended to increase, maintain, or accommodate the gun's high practical rate of fire.

The band follows the direction of the pipe major ; when on parade the band may be led by a drum major, who directs the band with a mace.

For example, on 3 September 1944, the personnel of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division marched six abreast to the music of massed regimental pipe and drum bands through the streets of Dieppe, France to commemorate the liberation of the city from German occupation, as well as commemorate the loss of over 900 soldiers from that formation during the Dieppe Raid two years earlier.

Unlike the democracy activists or Tibetans, who have found a comfortable place in Western perceptions, " Falun Gong marched to a distinctly Chinese drum ", Gutmann writes.

American march music showed during the Revolutionary War and earlier wartime conflicts, in which a fife and snare drum would play while the troops marched to battle.

He is known for having a drum corps background, but never actually marched a summer season.

Like the marching mallet percussion, timpani were marched first when drum corps required everything to be marched.

It was 3. 15 a. m. when a force of just about 400 under Bhakti Thapa marched out of the Malaun fort, to a slow but steady beat of a drum.

The National Front, accompanied by an Orange fife and drum band, marched down Bloomsbury Way to the west side of Southampton Row where another police cordon stopped them.

The image sheets stood out from the periphery of a rotating drum, and flipped into view in succession.

The drum track is filled out with hi-hat cymbal-patterns that nearly always include a hi-hat on quaver off-beats between each kick, and a snare drum or clap sound on beats two and four of every bar.

While in prison, he formed a gospel quartet with fellow cell mates Johnny Terry, " Hucklebuck " Davis and a person named " Shag ", and made homemade instruments-a comb and paper, a washtub bass, a drum kit made from lard tubs and for Brown, what he called " a sort of mandolin out of a wooden box.

During the concert, Moon passed out on his drum kit while the band was playing the song " Won't Get Fooled Again ".

Most spinning is done using break or open-end spinning, this is a technique where the staples are blown by air into a rotating drum, where they attach themselves to the tail of formed yarn that is continually being drawn out of the chamber.

He's been unwell a couple of times and his drum tech has stood in at a few festivals, but if he was permanently out, well, I don't know what I'd do, actually.

:" I have continued the revolution I began in Il giuramento: varied forms, cabalettas banished, crescendos out, vocal lines simplified, fewer repeats, more originality in the cadances, proper regard paid to the drama, orchestration rich but not so as to swamp the voices, no long solos in the ensembles ( they only force the other parts to stand idle to the detriment of the action ), not much bass drum, and a lot less brass band ".

# A similar method is undertaken, but with the base of the culm standing in fresh water, either in a large drum or stream to leach out sap.

S. P. Leary left the drum kit one night, and Muddy said ' anybody out there play drums?

From 1938 – 1946, every Looney Tunes short ( except for Hare Tonic and Baseball Bugs, with Bugs doing the drum scene instead ) ended with Porky Pig coming out of a drum and saying " th-th-th-that's all folks!

* Webclamps clamp the webbing in the event of an accident and limit the distance the webbing can spool out ( caused by the unused webbing tightening on the central drum of the mechanism ).

VHS machines, in contrast to Betamax and Beta's predecessor U-matic, use an " M-loading " system, also known as M-lacing, where the tape is drawn out by two threading posts and wrapped around more than 180 degrees of the head drum ( and also other tape transport components ) in a shape roughly approximating the letter M.

Wanting to launch a keyboard / bass / drum band, Emerson and Lake sought out a drummer.

The temperatures used for smoking are controlled by limiting the amount of air intake at the bottom of the drum, and allowing a similar amount of exhaust out of vents in the lid.

Some of their famous sound effects included a rapid bongo drum take used for when a character's feet were scrambling before taking off, a " KaBONG " sound produced on a guitar for when Quick Draw McGraw, in his Zorro-style " El Kabong " crime fighting guise, would smash a guitar over a villain's head, the sound of a car's brake drum combined with a bulb horn for when Fred Flintstone would drop his bowling ball onto his foot, an automobile's tires squealing with a " skipping " effect added for when someone would slide to a sudden stop, a bass-drum-and-cymbal combination called the " Boom Crash " for when someone would fall down or smack into an object, a xylophone being struck rapidly on the same note for a tip-toeing effect, and a violin being plucked with the tuning pegs being raised to simulate something like pulling out a cat's whisker.

Even after order had been restored in the theatre, the clamorous cries of one youngster drowned out the bass drum that ushered Marley onto the stage as he rose through a trap door.

The creature launches into a wild drum solo, which brings out many strange, weird, and oafish creatures, including a rabbit dangling in midair from a swing that seems to be threaded through its own ears, and an angry criminal imprisoned behind a free-floating barred window that he holds in his hands.

When the horn-head passes by, the drum solo starts, then cuts straight to the creature rising out of the flower and playing a jazz tune on his nose.

Hampton was raised Roman Catholic, and started out playing fife and drum at the Holy Rosary Academy near Chicago.

Then I took some rounds out of my mother ’ s chairs and made drumsticks out of them ” At age 16, Dodds saved up enough money to buy his own drum set.

Eventually Eddie found out about Alex playing his drum set and was so frustrated that he told Alex, " OK, I'll go play your guitar.