How to play the flat drum

Recently, I participated in a commercial performance, so I had to use the traditional folk musical instrument - flat drum

Perhaps because of its cute and chic shape, people directly call it "flat drum".

The appearance of red-hot, very grounded flat drum. It can also be called called war drums, or drums.

Although our country used to call the drums, gongs, wooden fish collectively as gongs and drums, rather than percussion instruments.

But according to the principle of sound alone, the flat drum should belong to the membrane sound category. Or that is struck by the drumstick, masked in the drum above and below the two layers of cowhide to the sound of the instrument.

When playing, according to my visit to the local music college graduate teacher, and ask their own drummer friends, the conclusion is similar - simple.

When you play, you hold two drumsticks in your left and right hands, the left hand strikes the edge, and the right hand strikes the drum surface.

Of course, the flat drum can also do a little playing - the left hand holds a drumstick pressed in the middle of the drum surface in the bass area, the right hand holds another drumstick knocking on the top of the previous one.

Modern players have also compiled similar sight-reading scores, although the symbols convey different meanings, as follows:

Specific illustrations and playing styles, as follows: