How To Use Drumming In A Sentence
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In most cases, each song is given melodic depth by MacKaye's baritone guitar and Farina's stripped-kit drumming.
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Although Mr. Smith didn't fully solo until this last tune, throughout the set his polyrhythmic drumming evoked a movie with four subplots going at once, all of which, I'd be willing to wager, are better than the latest Harry Potter movie, even in 3D.
The Sound Way Down in the Underground
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The energy from the land was invigorating and there was drumming in the near distance that added to the ambiance.
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Also, surprising to me, was the skill and energy of Torry Castellano's drumming.
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Up until 10 o'clock, Audrey and I enjoyed sitting and watching the spectacles, drumming our fingers to the impeccable music, and chit-chatting about absolutely useless girl talk.
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The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.
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Up until 10 o'clock, Audrey and I enjoyed sitting and watching the spectacles, drumming our fingers to the impeccable music, and chit-chatting about absolutely useless girl talk.
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It is something he is drumming into his players and before the recent blip it looked like he was getting through.
The Sun
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Drumming is a good way of developing your sense of rhythm.
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In an auditorium in Taipei, about 400 relatives also took part in a Buddhist ceremony with monks chanting softly and drumming lightly on wooden blocks.
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Ife" sampled dance traditions from West Africa and Cuba, with music that included Art Blakey's drumming and Cuban folk vocals.
Dance review: Ronald K. Brown's Evidence at Harman Hall
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People can go to concerts, music performances and drumming workshops or a silent art auction.
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In this species, male courtship drumming has been shown to be an honest indicator of heritable viability.
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No fancy bass drumming, just giving it some wellie.
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Luke's hobbies include karate, in which he has a yellow belt, motorcycling - his parents bought him a motorbike for his 16th birthday - and drumming.
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Farther along, there was some loud drumming coming from a sweet chestnut tree.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not to be outdone, Adams takes over drumming duties, grinning like a loon.
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Abbey Road The London Souls' self-titled debut album builds on roaring chords and flashy solos on guitar, insistent drumming and straight-ahead vocals.
New Power Trio Muscles Through
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He pointed up to the roof, through which the steady drumming of rain could be heard.
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Slowly, other sounds emerge to fill the space around his voice: a slow and rhythmic drumming, the trilling of a wooden flute, melancholy chords of the stringed saz and the fluttering of an oboe-like instrument called a mey.
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NVIDIA IS DRUMMING up support for for what it calls visual and high-performance computing by offering cash to companies through a GPU Ventures Program.
The Inquirer
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It is something he is drumming into his players and before the recent blip it looked like he was getting through.
The Sun
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Why the silence, the sirens, the jazz riffs, the drumming?
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A buzzard, high above, hung on the thermals and the sound of drumming snipe reminded me that this, after all, was summer.
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The best moment, and most shameless use of the medium ever, consists of a barker drumming up business for the wax museum by whapping a paddleball RIGHT INTO THE CAMERA!
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Layer Marney TowerWorld Picnic, Milton Keynes, SunFree day of body zorbing, drumming and Bollywood dancing workshops, plus "a 10-metre pig with an animatronic head".
This week's new events
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The Beatles featured two left handed members, Paul, whom everyone saw holding his Hoffner bass left handed, and Ringo, whose left handedness is at least partially to blame for his ‘original’ drumming style.
Entertainment Tidbits….
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Shipp's metallic chords against Brown's restless drumming and fitful swing are spine-tingling on Part Two, and his stately, harpsichord-like reverie entrancing on Part Three.
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There's a few absent smiles and drumming of fingers on shopping trolleys, we're all gearing up for the big chorus.
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Specialty vocal calls imitate sounds that dominant gobblers make, such as spitting, drumming and fighting purrs.
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He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation.
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I have heard rabbits, foxes, and dormice drumming.
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Most drumming mammals are rodents, but drumming has also been described in carnivores, deer, rabbits, elephant shrews and marsupials.
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There's wild drumming throughout, and though it'll test your patience from time to time, the whole of the CD is wrapped up in 30 minutes give or take.
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The tribal drumming sessions have been toned down too, so as not to bother neighboring homeowners.
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As the clock strikes eight an enormous din breaks out, with prisoners banging, shouting and drumming on doors.
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After about fifteen minutes of this, the dancing and drumming stopped and a clay calabash, twelve inches across, was filled with water and handed to the witch doctor, together with a small palm leaf.
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Nussbaum's drumming is a crucial element, providing colour and definition in this compelling session.
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Freeform drumming enters to impose order upon the 7-minute walkabout as it assembles itself with subtle shadings of tone and color.
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Drums are expensive. If drumming turned out to be just another one of my fads, I would feel pretty foolish to have splashed out half a grand on something I would never use again.
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Without pause, the finale begins with strings slashing through the drumming, followed by woodwind trills and a skipping melody.
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The whinnying was becoming louder, and the marching was practically drumming through her brain, it was so close.
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The drumming also gives a signal that we do things differently from other firms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rain was drumming on the tin roof.
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Maybe London can now afford 4,000 drummers drumming.
Times, Sunday Times
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The smoke-filled room was invaded by sexy, sensual snarls of guitars and harmonicas and a fantastic drumming beat throughout.
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Thankfully, the next track and recent single, ‘Everyday’, is much more of a pop rock song with its unusual opening bars, slightly offbeat drumming and catchy chorus.
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They are often detected by their foraging taps, bark prying, and drumming.
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The lesson plodded on, the patter of rain drumming on the windows filled the room with its soft noise.
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As evening approached, the rain persisted, streaking the windowpanes and drumming rhythmically against the rooftop.
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A harpsichordist plays Bach's six-part capriccio in farewell to his brother, but her gloved fingers are drumming on sound-boxes.
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When he is not soaring off into the sunset, he can be found drumming in the band Absent Friends.
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From above, as I watched the tits depart, came a soft drumming on a dead trunk – a female lesser spotted woodpecker, little bigger than a nuthatch.
Country diary: Hay-on-Wye
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Bunched tightly together by older men in animal skins and carrying spears, they perform a ceremonial dance to insistent drumming.
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It was very late one night, about two in the morning, and there was this fabulous drumming rain.
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The speaker system played an unobtrusive drumming music that was perfectly suited for the food and a nice change from the normal quiet interspersed with chatter that occurs in most of the plaza restaurants.
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And after the interval comes some of the fiercest theatrical drumming I've heard since Ariane Mnouchkine's production of The Oresteia.
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She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
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Squealing keyboard lines duel with harsh sax solos, but it's the drumming that ultimately comes up victorious.
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There are hints of free-flowing jazz drumming, while a frenetic shamisen sequence conjures up the gritty majesty of the blues.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Dhol Foundation is a collection of professional and semi-professional UK musicians giving the centuries-old drumming traditions of the Punjab a modern twist.
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Drumming groups may also include a lively mix of castanets, beaten bells, and even wind instruments.
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The moon was high now and he wondered why there was no drumming from the shamba.
Hemingway on Hunting
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I dreamt of a rainy day, one of those days when the crackle of water on the windows acts like a lullaby, a gentle drumming to make you slip into afternoon sleep against the strange worlds inside your book.
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“No!” she screamed, so loud she shocked herself back to reality, so loud the word drowned out the drumming of her pulse in her ears and the rushing water and her breathing and his and everything else in the universe except the primal need to survive.
Whispers At Midnight
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He had let her come up into the wind too far and the storm trysail luffed, canvas drumming, the bronze sail slides clattering.
CORMORANT
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They were busy canvassing and drumming up sentiment against the new government.
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Her heady, hypnotic drumming intensifies both the mood and pace.
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Alongside William Pagaran's drivingly kinetic drumming, and crunching electric guitar power chords, a pair of voices, male and female, sings in close and urgent harmony:
Bruce Wilson: Urging "Revolution," Palin's Religious Charity Evangelizes in Schools
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We've succeeded in drumming up a lot of local support for our attempt to stop the hospital being closed.
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Between the offbeat strum, subterranean bass and rock-steady drumming, they leave gaps that other bands would nervously clutter with ephemera.
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On a weekly basis the programme consists of samba drumming, guitar and dance.
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Although there are no footdrumming exchanges, agonistic interactions are avoided because footdrumming is done exclusively inside the burrow by the kangaroo rat avoiding contact with the one outside the burrow.
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It was the sort of day when you want to stay indoors but you have to go out shopping anyway, ending up in the supermarket listening to the rain drumming on the roof of the store.
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Often nights we'd be up until after midnight with guitars, tambourines and drumming, sitting in the rainforest in our owner-built homes playing away.
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Not to be outdone, Adams takes over drumming duties, grinning like a loon.
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The wind took the multitudinous sounds, -- the cries of frightened birds, the creaking trees, the snap of breaking boughs, the crash of falling giants, the rush of the rain, the drumming of the hail, -- enwound them with itself, and made the forest like a great shell held close to the ear.
To Have and to Hold
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Bauman patently sees no place for himself in a media world that insists on drumming the tedious rhythms of consumerism into the public psyche.
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The tribal drumming sessions have been toned down too, so as not to bother neighboring homeowners.
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Obscuring the role that corruption and ineptitude have played in arming and equipping our foes in the interests of drumming up another war just makes me sick beyond belief.
Biden on Iraq - Swampland - TIME.com
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UM joins a growing list of schools, such as the University of West Virginia, the University of North Texas and the University of California at Berkeley, whose specialized drumming directors are indigenous Ewe musicians.
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The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in The Apostles' Creed.
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It uses ingredients of Javanese Gamelan drumming, Philip Glass-style minimalism and wind up music boxes with spinning ballerinas.
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With the rain drumming on the roof, I was transported to the African bush.
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The male takes no part in incubation, continuing drumming displays over the nesting territory.
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TaikOz has established itself as one of Australia's most energetic and exciting drumming groups, combining the power of the traditional Japanese taiko with the etherial tones of the bamboo shakuhachi.
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The rain had been drumming on our window pane all night.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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This Finnish trio of cellists return with a driving and beautiful collection of songs featuring soaring string work underlaid by metal drumming and pre-programming to give the songs a searing edge.
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Her 'image', especially in the music videos (Drumming was a good step in the right direction), needs some twerking but there is finally someone that can live up to a Kate Bush comparison.
Undefined
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It does so with deep rhythmic drumming.
Times, Sunday Times
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She turned back to the window, bony fingers drumming on the sill.
A Plague of Angels
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TaikOz has established itself as one of Australia's most energetic and exciting drumming groups, combining the power of the traditional Japanese taiko with the etheral tones of the bamboo shakuhachi.
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The smoke-filled room was invaded by sexy, sensual snarls of guitars and harmonicas and a fantastic drumming beat throughout.
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The first two are rather general, because my work comprises more than writing and editing: I also get income from drumming and sometimes from photography.
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The festival would not be complete without the ancient art of Taiko drumming.
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It has a distinctly Super Friendz sound: spare guitar work, precise melodies, choral harmonies and explosive drumming.
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A distant drumming could be heard gradually growing louder and louder.
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Very rapidly, she jabbed a knife between the splayed fingers of her hand, making an irregular tattoo of drumming interspersed with gasps of pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whole Clinton administration was an exercise in drumming up business for himself after he left office.
Last minute Clinton ad: 'What has happened to Barack Obama?'
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The drumming is every bit as good as the guitar and bass. ‘Endlessly’ too, is a welcome change from the bombastic operatics, as Matt brings it all down, swooning over a drifting, two tone synth, backed by a simple, lamenting tin-beat.
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I was there a minute or two, just tapped my feet nervously and drumming my fingers on the steering wheel to some unknown beat.
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He woke suddenly to shouted commands, drumming horses' hoofbeats, gunfire and screaming.
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So the fact that we're flirting with paid leave for dads to bond with their babies is almost revolutionary -- and apparently is drumming up significant support.
Wendy Sachs: Why Men Matter
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I awoke to the sound of soft rain drumming the roof, a sound I will no longer hear in a few days…
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Very rapidly, she jabbed a knife between the splayed fingers of her hand, making an irregular tattoo of drumming interspersed with gasps of pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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My earliest memories in journalism are of editors and subs drumming into the cadets the need to never assume your readers knew what you were talking about in case somebody just dropped in from Mars and wanted to know what was going on in town.
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Employees are also rewarded for drumming up new hires and new business.
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We were in a cafe when we heard the sound of drumming.
Times, Sunday Times
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K, Strip to your loincloth, begin drumming and doing your special Grizzly Dance, while imploring Brother Grizzly to impart his sacred wisdom.
Bears Kill Colorado Woman Who Fed Them
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Mr. Walsh sent Mr. Darwin an extract from Dr. Hartman's "Journal of the doings of a Cicada septendecim," in which the females are described as flocking round the drumming males.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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Not a success at school, he drifted from job to job before following his mother into drumming as a career.
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Very rapidly, she jabbed a knife between the splayed fingers of her hand, making an irregular tattoo of drumming interspersed with gasps of pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can expect to be won over with manic guitar riffs, pounding drumming, catchy melodies, and a stage presence that overflows with energy.
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Rising and falling intensity displays a wide range of instrumentation from soft woodwind to loud drumming against the brass and a shrill flute or piccolo, as well as horn calls.
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That first year there was a Sunday afternoon parade, two band performances, some novelty events and a home-grown drumming band.
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Morrison went into the studio with Chris Walla and Don Zientara behind the boards; John Vanderslice guests, and Death Cab for Cutie's Jason McGerr attempts to recreate Joe Easley's polyrhythmic drumming.
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The reformers had been at work in the period 1807-13, drumming up the patriotic spirit of the people.
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Rising and falling intensity displays a wide range of instrumentation from soft woodwind to loud drumming against the brass and a shrill flute or piccolo, as well as horn calls.
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The Dhol Foundation is a collection of professional and semi-professional UK musicians giving the centuries-old drumming traditions of the Punjab a modern twist.
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Sunday evening, Oct. 23, in West Seattle, a public drumming ceremony will call coho back to Fauntleroy Creek.
The Seattle Times
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He pointed up to the roof, through which the steady drumming of rain could be heard.
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South American species, was seen, while large numbers of plump birds of the tinamou family went drumming off through the forest at the approach of the party.
West Wind Drift
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The booming Zuckung Zuckung Zuckung was his high heels' heels drumming on the soiled floor's tile.
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Steve Reich's ‘Drumming, Part Three’ is for four xylophonists who begin with a tightly interlocking pattern and then gradually go out of phase with each other.
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Other breeding waders include 19 drumming snipe, 3 pairs of dunlin and 4 pairs of ringed plover.
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When slaves were drumming and dancing in the cabildos, Spanish colonial masters thought that they were honouring the saints.
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Adults and children are well catered for in Saturday's packed workshop programme including samba drumming, bodhrán, African drumming, belly dancing, tango and salsa dancing.
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Evening classes for adults take place on Monday and Wednesday for beginner and advanced fiddle and guitar, and on Tuesday and Thursday for choir, handbells and drumming.
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The slower numbers don't reveal anything related to the upbeat pieces; the jazz drumming doesn't reflect on the surrounding hip-hop beats or the more experimental percussion.
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For instance, because rodents drum with feet that are also used for digging, footdrumming may have originated as a ritualized form of digging behavior, especially in fossorial mammals.
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One part loopy, dissonant, wrenching guitars, one part playful synth bleeps and bloops, one part punky, four on the floor drumming and shouted female vocals all generously sprinkled with raw disco energy and a refreshing sense of humour.
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The album is a classic power-rock album built on roaring chords and flashy solos on guitar, insistent drumming and straight-ahead vocals.
New Power Trio Muscles Through
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I averted my eyes from the roadworks scar, and we emerged from the gravelled gloom of Palmer Street by the Community Centre where, in the park, we stumbled into an accidental circus of people drumming, and whirling fiery pois and staffs.
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Marta inched forward, the drumming louder in her ears, waiting for the reporter to move.
ROUGH JUSTICE
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Suddenly he could hear his heartbeat drumming in his ears, muffling out the rest of the surrounding clatter.
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And Grohl's drumming on the album is exceptional, as well.
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Sarah turned away again, but this time, not even the rain drumming against the roof was enough to drown out her sobs.
DELUGE (Chapter Nine) – Brian Keene
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Samantha, you started drumming when you were 12?
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Also, you'll hear bongo drumming and readings from Feynman's popular books.
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The result of all the chanting and drumming and hysteria was fear.
A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
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The drumming of the rain on the alloy roof of the immobile mobile home was a strangely comforting sound, Rosanna Nixon thought.
THE SCAR
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A fashion parade of khangas and traditional ceremonial dress including Maasai full dress with beads along with drumming, ngoma, music and dance will celebrate this rich and diverse culture.
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She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
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During the past week campers learnt the art of African and tassa drumming, how to walk on stilts and how to put together an atlas.
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Meanwhile, a distinct rhythm of drumming for a war dance is audible in the present.
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My earliest memories in journalism are of editors and subs drumming into the cadets the need to never assume your readers knew what you were talking about.
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ULABY: Scholars trace this pattern to church tambourines, West African drumming, and a hand-patting rhythm called hambone that goes back to slavery.
Rock Pioneer Bo Diddley Dies at 79
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I'm coming round to the skittering drumming on that new single.
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He complains that Enterprise's indoctrination of new employees is "cultlike," drumming into them the false promise of promotion to the executive ranks while blurring the fact that they are "chiefly insurance salespeople" whose primary duty is to "bully" customers into signing up for the maximum collision-damage coverage.
Will Work for Fodder
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The Pogues were so punk they didn't need overdriven guitar, breakneck drumming or discontented lyrics.
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The twins continued sitting there, their hearts drumming anxiously.
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He scowled at the computer screen in front of him, drumming his fingers on the desk impatiently.
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THOUSANDS of sheep, soft-footed, black-nosed sheepone by one going up the hill and over the fenceone by one four-footed pattering up and overone by one wiggling their stub tails as they take the short jump and go overone by one silently unless for the multitudinous drumming of their hoofs as they move on and go overthousands and thousands of them in the grey haze of evening just after sundownone by one slanting in a long line to pass over the hill
Sheep
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The luxurious air of the seraglio is made complete by a sensuous zither-like ‘santir’ and gentle drumming in the background.
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Perot was in Europe, drumming up business for his new investment company.
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For the first time in what seemed like years I heard actual rain drumming against the roof and washing snow from the streets and reducing drifts to icy piles of dirty slush.
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Björn Merker has noted that the Greek mousiké encompasses melody, dance, and poetry, while the Bantu ngoma covers drumming, singing, dancing and festivity and the Blackfoot saapup covers singing, dancing, and ceremony.
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The masters of Japan's traditional and contemporary taiko drumming combine physical performance and incredible musicianship.
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He started the concert by drumming with his hands on a tom-tom, eventually progressing to the entire kit.
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Karl put away the cleaning supplies and walked over to sit next to the phone, staring at it while drumming his fingers repeatedly on the desk.
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Smoke, fire and the incessant drumming noise of the shuttles produced a visceral excitement that formerly belonged to battle and the clash of great armies.
DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
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She started the car and pulled into Andreas' driveway, drumming her fingers impatiently on the side of the door as she waited for him.
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Do you have excellent drumming and acting skills and the ability to communicate joy, wonder and depth?
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Either they were humming along or tapping their feet or were drumming their fingers.
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Feather vibration in the slipstream produces the remarkable throbbing known as ‘drumming’.
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Ethan's drumming is less in your face than that of their departed sticksman, allowing crunching, jangling and fuzzy guitars to get a go of the limelight.
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Mr. Sharpton is expected to play a significant role in drumming up support for her campaign.
Lawyer Leads In Cash Dash
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They even held a drumming session teaching youngsters how to play the tom-tom and bongos.
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Making no use of the hi-hat or cymbals, Kathi's drumming is insistent and tribal adding a real primal ebb to each song.
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The girl held a small, black cell phone to her ear and listened to a dial tone, drumming her fingers impatiently.
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Their slow acoustic strumming and clunky drumming are answered by sort piano crashes.
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As he settled himself in the saddle for a long ride he heard the drumming of hoofs, the hollow "thwack" of chaparral against wooden stirrups, the whoop of
Waifs and Strays Part 1
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Max Roach was not only one of the great innovators of bebop drumming, but also an outspoken activist.
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Yet the Congress Party only attempted to articulate these arguments when the antireform groups began drumming up opposition.
Mr. Singh's Defeat
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The meditation was conducted while listening to a CD of shamanic double drumming.
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In an instant Fabia was wide awake and, with a drumming heart, she put on the light.
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The curlew and oystercatcher are back and the great spotted woodpeckers have chosen the oldest telegraph poles in the village for best quality drumming sounds.
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Singing, drumming, and the hula dance are sacred forms of worship and remain integral to the daily life of some native Hawaiians.
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She turned left on to Princes Street as the smirring rain began to get heavier, drumming the roof and the windscreen in loud syncopation, occasionally intensified by random gusts of wind.
Boiling a Frog
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She rocks rapidly from side to side, head turning and feet drumming upon the earthen floor while she beats a tambourine rattle.
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I confess I am curious to know how the thing happened, but the hand of the Almighty's in it anyway," he said; and so saying he lay back in his chair with a sigh of satisfaction that lost nothing of its zest by the influence of the rain that blattered now in drumming violence on the window-panes.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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As a teenager, he lived in the borough of Queens (with John Coltrane only three blocks away), and became fascinated by the jazz drumming of Art Blakey – a bebopper with a strong gospel feel.
Steve Reid obituary
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Very rapidly, she jabbed a knife between the splayed fingers of her hand, making an irregular tattoo of drumming interspersed with gasps of pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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he practiced his drumming several hours every day
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His music focuses on the social and economic issues that affect the daily lives of ordinary people, and is influenced by the traditional mbira and drumming rhythm of his clan.
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He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation.
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Bunched tightly together by older men in animal skins and carrying spears, they perform a ceremonial dance to insistent drumming.
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I found a YouTube video of the drumming, of "Bushido", from this tour, though it's not Boston.
"Your new gods, your new ways, all seek to dispel me."
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They work at festivals, so there are lots of people that can help out with drumming and energy work while they do their thing.
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These big, silvery fish were spawning, and their peculiar drumming noises boomed from the dark river.
Dark Waters, Moonless Nights
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Castanet-like handclaps trigger long, guttural sax lines; electronics fly across the speakers and give way to free-blasting; and odd, pogo-dancing themes over bumpy drumming sound like punk interpretations of Parisian cafe music.
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She fidgeted constantly, tapping her foot, drumming her fingers on her leg, or plucking at her newly straightened hair.
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The band are drumming a rhythm for dancers.
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It does so with deep rhythmic drumming.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it comes to electronic beats, keytar licks and spasmatic drumming I'm kind of like the Philadelphia Eagles of blogging; even in when the situation deems otherwise, I tend to pass.
Herohill
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The next morning, drumming snipe provide my wake-up call, and, in soft sunshine, I wander down to the shore.
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As he found a seat - and the beat - within the group, he felt his mood Improving rapidly, and watched the primal act of drumming draw the group together.
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The later, post-World War II version of this genre featured explosive, distorted electric guitar work, thunderous drumming, and fierce, declamatory vocals.
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He pointed up to the roof, through which the steady drumming of rain could be heard.
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Spiders produce vibration ‘… by drumming with the pales and the abdomen, by stridulating, or by plucking threads of their own or other spiders' webs’.
