what are the used for
2007-03-15 03:44:58 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Depends on the percussion instrument. Percussion instruments have long been used to mark time and tempo in music, so that the players of other instruments are less unlikely to be playing ahead of or behind the rest of their section. But, as there are literally thousands of different kinds of percussive instruments, that is not the only role they play. Some percussives, like xylophones, pianos, and tympanni, are capable of playing notes just like most other instruments, although their notes are incapable of being sustained like a horn or a woodwind or a fingered string, but they offer the potential of allowing a single player to perform a solo with multiple harmonics, which those other instruments just plain do not do.
So, marking time, marking tempo, unsustained melodics, and single player harmonics.
Did I leave anything out?
2007-03-15 04:05:04 · answer #1 · answered by Robert G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A percussion instrument is any object that produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. The term usually applies to an object used in a rhythmic context with musical intent. As for the "role" of percussion instruments well, they make music!!
2007-03-15 10:52:42 · answer #2 · answered by ♪ ♫Jin_Jur♫ ♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In most cases, the percussion instruments are vital to help keeping the band in time, as well as filling out the sound, with a driving beat.
2007-03-15 10:55:48 · answer #3 · answered by Hairbear80 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rythm is their first task... but they are so much more... the xylophone is a percussion instrument, as are tambours and tin drums in reggae and such. virtually anything that gets "hit with a stick" is a percussion instrument.
2007-03-15 10:55:26 · answer #4 · answered by mrfixit64857 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the type of music but look at the drum for instance-without one in most popular music, the beat wouldn't be clear. As with classical music it adds to the ambiance and the rhythmic aspects of the music
2007-03-15 10:48:09 · answer #5 · answered by lady_margery 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm no drummer,but i think its just to keep the timing correct in music and also have rhythm.therefore the drums in a band is percussion.
2007-03-15 10:54:35 · answer #6 · answered by voodooelectric 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same as every other instrument in music
to make a noise that we hear as music!
What role do u play in Yahoo answers?
The village idiot?
2007-03-15 10:48:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yeah to DiggerG ,,,, what role does a singer have ?, what role does a guitarist have? what role does a keyboard player have? etc,etc. etc. sorry to any bass players
2007-03-15 10:57:05 · answer #8 · answered by joes guitar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very simply -- they create the beat and keep the time.
2007-03-15 12:11:35 · answer #9 · answered by kimglf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mmm, let`s see if I can "drum" up an answer here :-)
2007-03-15 11:04:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋