What does a drum set need? Five drums and four cymbals.

Five drums: snare drum, second drum, ground drum and ground drum.

Four cymbals: trampling cymbals, rhythm cymbals (Ding Ding cymbals) and two hanging cymbals.

Drum sets were formed in the 1940s, including hand percussion instruments and foot percussion instruments with different timbres. Hand percussion instruments include small drums, drums, hanging cymbals, etc., and foot percussion instruments include big drums and treading cymbals.

On this basis, additional percussion instruments can be added or subtracted at any time according to the needs of performance. In the band, the drummer controls the speed and rhythm of music and other important links, especially in jazz, the drummer especially needs to maintain a tacit cooperation with other musicians.

Extended data

1, little snare drum

Play percussion instruments with membrane sounds. A drum consisting of a metal frame and a surface covered with plastic or leather at both ends. Widely used in symphony orchestras, military bands and jazz bands. The models of drums vary widely, and their diameters and depths are also different.

You can change the sound quality by loosening the strings, so that the drum makes a low and dim sound; You can also put a piece of cloth on the hitting surface to produce a weak sound effect.

2. Drumming sound

There were no drums on the earliest drum sets, only big drums, little snare drum and big cymbals. Later, in the process of development, two cymbals were added and a small snare drum, the drum, was removed.

Because it has no strings, this drum is called Tom, because it doesn't sound like snare drum Jr.' s "click" or "tick", but "tick". In our country, it is also called a drum because it looks like a bucket.