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Definition: Bass Drum |
Bass DrumNoun1. A large drum with two heads; makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitch. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Bass DrumSynonym: gran casa (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The bass drum is used to punctuate time. In marches it is used to keep the march even (marching bands march to the beat of the bass). A basic beat for rock and roll has the bass drum played on the first and third beats of a bar of common time, with the snare drum on the second and fourth "back beats".
An orchestral bass drum is quite large, about 36" in diameter, and is played with one or two large, padded mallets. In a drum kit, the bass drum is much smaller, most commonly 20" or 22" but sizes from 18" to 26" are quite normal, and is played using a pedal operated mallet. A pedal-operated bass drum is often called a kick drum.
In many forms of heavy metal music, particularly thrash metal, a second bass drum pedal is used, either operating a second beater on the same drum using an extended mechanism, or more traditionally simply playing a similar second bass drum, placed beside the first and tuned identically. Double bass drum techniques were pioneered by Gene Krupa in the 1950s and popularised in the 1960s by Ginger Baker of Cream and Keith Moon of the Who.
In many modern marching bands and drum corps, a set of multiple bass drums called tonal bass drums are used. A bass drum line typically consists of four to six tonal bass drums, though many smaller high schools only have enough players to use two or three drums, and some universities and drum corps have marched up to sixteen at once. The drums typically are between 18" and 32" in diameter, but some groups have used bass drums as small as 14" and as large as 36". Generally, tonal bass drums are tuned higher than kick drums or orchestral bass drums so complex rudimental passages can be heard clearly. Each player usually carries one drum, though in rare cases players carry two or three smaller drums at once. Skilled bass drum lines can execute complex rhythmic figures so convincingly that it sounds like the entire bass drum part is being played by a single musician.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bass drum."
Crosswords: Bass Drum |
| English words defined with "bass drum": snare drum ♦ White perch. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bass drum": PERCUSSION-INSTRUMENT REPAIRER. (references) |
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Lyrics | Heart beats silly like a big bass drum ("INFATUATION"; performing artist: Rod Stewart) | |
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 | A quick syncopated synthesized hi-hat and bass drum beat. | | A single low bass drum being struck. |
| Two bass drum rolls. | | Bass drum beat. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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| Language | Translations for "bass drum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stortromme (big drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | grote trom (big drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | grosse caisse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pauke (kettledrum, swot-shop, timbal, timpani, tympanic cavity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γκραν-κάσα (big drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תוף '"ול. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagydob (big drum, tambour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | grancassa (big drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 大太" (large or bass drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おお い" (large or bass drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | drum mooar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assbay umdray bumbo (tambour), bombo (big drum), tambor (barrel, barrel *, coiling drum *, contra-rotating drums, cylinder, drum, drum set, drumhead, drummer, feed drum, pulley, reel, roll, roller, rope barrel *, rope drum *, steam drum, swift, tambour, tined pick-up head). (various references) турецкий барабан. (various references) bombo (big drum, disconcerts, drum, puff). (various references) bastrumma. (various references) bas davul. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Bass Drum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bassdrum. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-m-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: absurds, samburs. | |
-2 letters: absurd, bursas, mudras, rumbas, sambur, umbras. | |
-3 letters: arums, bards, barms, bauds, brads, brass, buras, burds, bursa, darbs, daubs, drabs, drams, drubs, drums, dumas, dumbs, duras, mauds, mudra, muras, ramus, rumba, sards, subas, suras, surds, umbra. | |
-4 letters: amus, arbs, arms, arum, bads, bams, bard, barm, bars, bass, baud, brad, bras, buds, bums, bura, burd, burs, buss, dabs, dams, darb, daub, drab, dram, drub, drum, dubs, duma, dumb, dura, mads, mars, mass, maud, muds, mura, muss, rads, rams, rubs, rums, sabs, sard, suba, subs, suds, sums, sura, surd, urbs, urds, ursa. | |
-5 letters: abs, ads, amu, arb, arm, ars, ass, bad, bam, bar, bas, bra, bud, bum, bur, bus, dab, dam, dub, mad, mar, mas, mud, mus, rad, ram, ras, rub, rum, sab, sad, sau, sub, sum, urb, urd. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-m-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: absurdism. | |
+2 letters: absurdisms. | |
+3 letters: ambuscaders. | |
+5 letters: unembarrassed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 73 73 44 72 75 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000100 01110010 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a s s   D r u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0073 0073 0044 0072 0075 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36678585238848779 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Sounds 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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