percussion

In one sense, it’s a simple and catchy tune, but backing vocals, toy piano, woodwinds and percussion give it the stuffed sonic maximalism characteristic of the group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

And then it was concert time, with Densmore on drums and instructors Calderon on guitar, Flores on percussion and Mackenzie Azela on bass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

It’s evidence of the eighth-grader who played percussion.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Ms. Sankaram, a gifted Indian-American composer, is also a trained sitarist and vocalist; her vividly eclectic musical palette includes influences ranging from Indian ragas and Carnatic vocal percussion to electronic-dance music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

To African drums, the Cubans gradually added an array of percussion instruments that were native to the region, such as the claves and the maracas.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Whereas on tracks like “Dime” and “Flores,” there are distinct orchestral peaks, in which subtle percussions give way to grander, more cathartic releases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

Jeremiah Green’s buoyant percussions — that frequently lift and propel Modest Mouse songs in unorthodox ways — bounced the sold-out crowd like a tattered basketball on the Showbox’s famously springy floor.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

After the meeting, I just went to a studio and started recording for three weeks, and it’s all these jams, all these percussions and flutes.

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2021

This is a true story, too, so after I gave him the trumpet back, the mouthpiece, all that, I never made it to the drums or the percussions.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2020

All sounds imply time; because they are the transient effects of certain percussions which temporarily agitate the air, an element that tends to silence.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown