Percussion Only

Musicians produce percussive vibration on percussion instruments by: ____.

• striking

• shaking

• strumming

• scraping

• rubbing

There are two general types of percussion instruments: ___.

• sharp and flat

• drums and cymbals

• pitched and unpitched

In class, we learned we can further classify instruments into 4 groups of percussion instruments. They are ___.

• drums

• cymbals & gongs

• auxiliary percussion

• electronic

• mallet percussion

These are the only pitched drums.

• snare drums

• bass drums

• djembe

• timpani

What is the name of this instrument?

• snare drum

• bass drum

• bongos

• congas

What is the name of this instrument?

• snare drum

• bass drum

• bongos

• congas

What is the name of this instrument?

• snare drum

• bass drum

• bongos

• congas

What is the name of this instrument?

• snare drum

• bass drum

• bongos

• congas

Drums:

• have a body called a shell

• are mostly unpitched

• have at least one membrane

• are played by scraping

• are played by striking

Cymbals:

• are made of metal

• are unpitched

• are pitched

• can be played by scraping

• can be played by striking