What are the origin stories of drum sets?

Before learning about drum sets, let's review the origin of modern music. It is precisely because of the vigorous development of modern music that the original drum set was born in the 20th century.

157 1 year, the first black people were transported to America, which was then a Spanish colony. Since then, millions of black slaves have been sold to America. The arrival of black slaves not only brought their labor force, but also brought a new music culture to the United States-music and dance from Africa.

For African indigenous blacks, their dance and music are also part of their language. They express their feelings through music, especially in some important ceremonies, such as weddings, funerals, festivals and celebrations. People always gather in tribes or villages to sing and dance, and drums are one of the important musical instruments.

Drum is a traditional musical instrument of African residents, which originated in West Africa. When people play, they hang it around their necks, and several people (at least two people, even seven or eight people) play together, and pay attention to coordination during the playing process. This kind of drum music has thousands of rhythms. This kind of wooden drum is not only the product of African residents' entertainment tools, musical instruments and African culture, but also a tool for them to contact and alarm, which is a language for them.

Until the beginning of the19th century, black slaves in the United States still maintained their traditions, especially in cities influenced by Spain and France at that time, such as Louisiana, the capital of Mississippi, and New Orleans.

However, after 186 1 year, during the American Civil War, the slave owners in the south were afraid that blacks would plan rebellion through the language of drum music, so black slaves were forbidden to use their traditional music and musical instrument-drums. And this move just contributed to the birth of modern music.

When black people want to express their feelings through music again, they have to play white melodies with white musical instruments. This move can be seen as a concrete manifestation of black music talent. Black people are not only interpreting white people's music, but also interpreting their music with American music style. Thus, black and white jazz was born at the end of 19. It is also because of the birth of jazz that the status of percussion instruments in bands or orchestras has been improved.

For a long time, in the white world before jazz appeared, percussion instruments were only auxiliary instruments in orchestras. No matter what kind of music people play (such as classical music, romantic music and so on). ), percussion instruments are only used in background music. Melody performance (solo) belongs to brass instruments, spiral instruments, keyboard instruments and other instruments.

But in jazz, percussion instruments (drum sets) have achieved the same status as other instruments for the first time, and finally they can also be used to play the melody of drums (solos), which can express a certain piece of music or the drummer's personal thoughts through solos.

Since the 1950s, rock bands have appeared, and the status of percussion instruments (drum sets) has been upgraded again. Until today, it is impossible for rock bands to lack drummers, and some even have a percussionist.

However, today's percussion instruments (drum sets) once again limit themselves to the scope of "accompanying tonic", instead of the simple soundtrack of 100 years ago. It embodies the cooperation with guitar, keyboard, bass and lead singer in the band, and is a rhythmic instrument in the band, which fixes the speed, motivation and structure of music. People can say that the drummer is the conductor of the band.

At the beginning, drums were very simple, only big drums, small drums and military cymbals. People put snare drum on the ground, set up a small drum, kick a big drum with their feet, then stick a stick in the ground and hang a cymbal. /kloc-In the mid-9th century, when the American Civil War ended, the black people who could sing and dance got many musical instruments from the disbanded army. For example, drums, cymbals and cymbals. (These instruments later became almost the main instruments in jazz). Genius blacks skillfully combined all kinds of drums and cymbals to form the prototype of jazz drums. They put snare drum on a bracket, put it on the ground, and equipped it with pedals to encourage drumhead. Then hang drums and cymbals on both sides of the drum. In this way, one person can operate multiple percussion instruments at the same time. After development and improvement, it gradually evolved into a modern jazz drum. With the development of jazz. The drummer's technology is also improving, and the simple device can no longer meet the needs of the band and drummer, so several small drums with strings removed are gradually added to the percussion group and played, which echoes the big drums and small drums and is very beautiful. Later, they were named "Tom". China's customary name was "Drum Drum", because Drum Drum was very similar to Shui Tong, and some also called it "Drum Drum". With the development of jazz, the number of cymbals that can be connected together has also increased. Until it developed into a world-class percussion instrument with perfect shape and convenient operation, there are two-sided drums, seven-and-eight-sided drums and eight-and-nine-sided cymbals.