The expression form of drum words

The performance of drums is rap, or male or female singing. The singer holds a hand board in his left hand and a drum stick about 30 cm in his right hand, beating the small drum standing in front of him and singing alone without other musical instruments. Its language is mainly Lunan dialect, with original ecological singing; There are two kinds of voices: flat voice and high voice, most of which are gong tone, up tone or feather tone. The format of lyrics consists of seven sentences and cross sentences, which are mostly self-questioning and self-answering; The rhythm is "no eyes", all with strong beat, no second strong beat or weak beat; The range is within ten degrees, which is relatively narrow. Drum Ci is a folk art form with Zaozhuang characteristics. It not only has a long history, but also has its own characteristics in confession, singing, language and sentence patterns. Studying, excavating and sorting out this Han folk art form is of far-reaching significance for enriching the traditional culture of China.