2006-11-24 16:54:00 · 10 answers · asked by metall.pingwin 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Drums are instruments while Percussion basically is a catagory of instruments.
Other Percussion instruments may include instruments where you don't use your mouth...
Timpani, cymbals, tamborine, triangle, maracas
2006-11-24 16:57:50 · answer #1 · answered by TodboT 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Drums are percussion instruments.
Percussion is the act of using ones hands or other implements to apply varrious amounts of pressure to any object.
In medical terms percussion is a proceedure used to break up lung congestion. The patient lays on his/her stomach and the medical person doing the proceedure "pounds" on the back of the patient with cupped hands.
Drums are the instrument, percussion is the action.
2006-11-25 01:03:45 · answer #2 · answered by Norton N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Percussion is a category of an instrument. Drums are just in this category there isnt any difference or anything.
2006-11-25 00:59:04 · answer #3 · answered by holl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drums are in the percussion family. It is like asking what is the difference between humans & mamals.
2006-11-25 01:02:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drums are one examples of percussion. While percussion instruments are musical instruments that can be strike (like drums), shake and more.
2006-11-25 00:58:52 · answer #5 · answered by Ashlyn_47 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Percussion includes more instruments than just drums, it is also symbols, and a whole bunch of other instruments that I can't think of off the top of my head right now.
2006-11-25 00:58:14 · answer #6 · answered by HMF313 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
drums are one specific type of instruments. percussion is a musical instrument that you hit or strike. ex: drums, snare drum. percussion: xylophone, snare drum, gong, bass drum ect.
2006-11-25 01:07:30 · answer #7 · answered by d-rizzle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
percussion is an instrument that makes music by being hit.
Tuned Percussion
Antique Cymbals, beel Lyre, Celest, chimes, crotales, glockenspiel, marimba, orchestra bells, steel drums, timpani, vibraphone, xylophone
Untuned Percussion
Bass Drum, Crash Cymbals, gong, snare Drum , Suspended Cymbal, tam-tam, tenor drum, tom toms
Auxiliary Percussion
Acme Siren (police Siren), bird whistel, boat whistle, finger cymbals, flex a tone, jew's harp, marching machine, police whistle, ratchet, rattle, sandpaper blocks, slpstick, sleigh bells, tamborine, temple blocks, thunder machine, train whistle, triangle, vibra slap, wind machine, wood block
Latin Percussion
agogo bells, bongo drums, cabac, castanets, claves, conga, cowbell, GYiro, Maracas, Scraper, timbales,
2006-11-25 01:05:13 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Cellophane 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drums are a musical instrument.
Percussion is the pressure from Bombs exploding.
OK, OK, maybe I am wrong, but, it sounded good to me.
2006-11-25 01:03:04 · answer #9 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think percussion sounds softer, not as noisy..
2006-11-25 00:57:37 · answer #10 · answered by shizuka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋