I visit it by day, I visit it at nightfall. I always stand by the lamentation drum! ~ Sumerian proverb

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone.

Quotes

• I visit it by day, I visit it at nightfall. I always stand by the lamentation drum!
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection I at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

• I really think that the drums are as poetic and romantic as any instrument.
  • Tony Williams, as quoted in "Tony Williams" by Rick Mattingly, Modern Drummer (June 1984), p. 10

• It's not like I don't know I'm playing loud. I mean, that's drumming. If you want polite, go listen to the MJQ. If you want soft, listen to Sérgio Mendes. See, that's part of the ethic and whole world of drumming: drums are meant to be loud. It's like telling a piccolo player, "Don't play high" or telling a trumpet player, "Don't be so brassy" or telling a bass player, "Don't play so low." Volume, physicality, and aggressiveness are part of what drumming is all about.
  • Tony Williams, as quoted in "Tony Williams: A Master's Perspective" by Bill Milkowski, Modern Drummer (July 1992), p. 75

External links

Wikibooks

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of

Learn to Play Drums

• "Drum" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 8 (11th ed.). 1911.
• Drum resources at DMOZ