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
Marks made by cutting and percussion appear on animal bones found in Ethiopia dating back some 3.4 million years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
If you can, listen to a percussion player or section that is using snare drums, cymbals, or other percussion of the same type but different sizes.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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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
The percussions of it travelled with about the velocity of sound, viz. about thirteen miles in a minute.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
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