In my last blog post I discussed that my ICR lion dance instructor, Kwan, bought a drum to create background music for our dance. I noticed that this drum is far different than normal drum sets used in American bands. A standard modern kit contains a\u00a0snare drum, (typically mounted on a stand and placed between the player’s knees). Also, there is a bass drum, played by a\u00a0pedal operated by the right foot, which moves a a drum beater to create noise. In addition the set includes\u00a0toms, a\u00a0hi-hat (two cymbals mounted on a stand), and cymbals. These drums are played with two long, wooden sticks.<\/p>\n
In contrast, the drum that Kwan brought was singular and very heavy. The dense drum has a thick wooden base and thicker layer on top. Listening to this drum over a normal drum set is quite different. A rock band drum set has much crisper of a noise<\/a>, banging the different drum parts. A Chinese drum has much more base, creating a heavier noise<\/a>. Overall I found this differentiation between the two drums interesting as it shows music preference between cultures.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my last blog post I discussed that my ICR lion dance instructor, Kwan, bought a drum to create background music for our dance. I noticed that this drum is far different than normal drum sets used in American bands. A standard modern kit contains a\u00a0snare drum, (typically mounted on a stand and placed between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}