percussion

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

He played piano and percussion as a child and later guitar as an adult, but “put all of that away for many years,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The most infectious song on the album is Ms Paper, which takes a detour into Bouyon – a Dominican music characterised by high tempos and frantic percussion.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Having already picked up percussion, she was eventually able to sit in and play with them alongside her father and uncles.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

The Zimbabwean game song “Sorida” contains a melody accompanied by body percussion and hand clapping in pairs of partners.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

And I pointed to the drums, and I pointed to 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