| Anthropologists and historians repeatedly | | | | instruments if present. |
| speculate that percussion instruments were the | | | | Drums and percussions as well as bass are known |
| first musical apparatus ever came into being. But | | | | as the rhythm section of the most popular music |
| with the utmost certainty, the human voice was | | | | genres. Most classical pieces written for an |
| the first musical instrument, and surely, percussion | | | | orchestra since the time of Mozart and Haydn are |
| tools such as feet, hands, rocks, sticks and logs | | | | schemed to put emphasis on strings, brass and |
| came in second to the on-going evolution of | | | | woodwinds. However, time and again they include |
| music. When humans developed tools for hunting | | | | a pair of timpani (kettle drums) although not |
| and agriculture, their knowledge along side with | | | | played continuously. But moderately, they serve |
| skill, enabled them to produce more complex | | | | to offer additional accents when needed. |
| tools. They use slit drum, made from a | | | | In the 18th and 19th centuries, more percussion |
| hollowed-out tree trunk. For instance, a simple log | | | | instruments (like the cymbals or triangles) came |
| may have been shaped to generate louder tones | | | | to being and frequently, again moderately and |
| (log drum) and may have been pooled to create | | | | cautiously played in general. The massive uses of |
| numerous tones (set of log drums). | | | | percussion instruments become more recurrent in |
| As time moved on, so is the evolution of | | | | the 20th century, on classical music. |
| percussion instruments. In the early 10th century, | | | | In almost all types of music, percussion plays a |
| it was known that most tribes in Africa use sorts | | | | fundamental role. In a military parade, it is the |
| of percussions such as djembe, macaras used in | | | | strike of the bass drum that holds the soldiers in |
| Latin America, karimbas in Asia and seed rattles in | | | | step and at a normal speed, and it is the snare |
| Australia for their recreational and worship rituals | | | | that endows that crisp, vital air to the tune of a |
| and sometimes used in sending signals. | | | | troop. In traditional jazz, one almost instantly |
| Percussion instruments that are displayed in | | | | thinks of the distinguishing rhythm of the hi-hats |
| orchestra first came from Asia Minor. In the 15th | | | | or the ride cymbal when the word "swing" is |
| century, people began migrating east and brought | | | | uttered. In more current popular music genres, it |
| with them numerous instruments. Our percussion | | | | is almost impossible to name at least three or |
| instruments got their initial stages there, when the | | | | four rock, hip-hop, rap, funk, punk, techno, |
| Crusades took back the drums that they found in | | | | grunge, alternative and blues songs that don?t |
| the Middle East. From then on, evolution of | | | | have some kind of percussive beat maintaining |
| percussion and drums kicked up a notch and | | | | the tune in time. |
| assortments of percussion instruments came into | | | | Because of the mixture and wide assortments of |
| being. | | | | percussive instruments, it is not unusual to find |
| Percussion is categorized by a variety of criteria | | | | large musical gathering composed wholly of |
| at times depending on their cultural origin, | | | | percussion. Rhythm, harmony and melody are all |
| construction and function within musical | | | | evident and alive in these musical factions, and in |
| orchestration. It is generally referred as ?the | | | | live performances they are quite a spectacle to |
| hearbeat? of a musical ensemble, often | | | | see. |
| functioning close collaboration with bass | | | | |