percussion
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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
Lisa-Kaindé is the bleeding heart who whispers divinity into her lyrics, and Naomi grounds them with the beating pulse of her percussion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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
“Ups & Downs” is an instrumental with a droning keyboard—perhaps a harmonium—along with a clarinet and clattering percussion that sounds like a drum kit being slowly unpacked from its case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Since warriors always carried their weapons, Uncle Little Hawk had his black powder percussion rifle with him.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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
It was filled with rumbling thunder, breaking at intervals into louder percussions, as the red bolts passed hissing through it.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
Vocabulary lists containing percussion
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