Snare Drum

Definition: Snare Drum

Snare Drum

Noun

1. A small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head.

Synonyms: Snare Drum

Synonyms: side drum (n), snare (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Snare drum

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The snare drum (or side drum) is tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or headss, stretched over the top and bottom openings. A cluster of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, or animal gut is stretched across the bottom head. When the drum is struck, the snares vibrate against the bottom head. This produces a short, distinctive, snap-like sound. The snares can be disengaged if this effect is not required.

Originally, snare drums were military instruments originating from Europe in the 15th and 16th centurys. They were commonly called a Tabor and were used with the fife in the swiss military. Today, the snare drum can be found in nearly every form of western music. Snare drums are used by marching bands and drum and bugle corps to provide a steady source of rhythm. The snare drum was incorporated into classical music to provide color for march-like segments of music. It is used in popular music styles like rock and roll and jazz to provide an accented backbeat. The snare drum is the driving force in samba music: ghost notes are played continuously with accented strokes outlining the rhythm. The snare is also used extensively in death metal, to provide a "blast beat": a rapid alternation of snare and bass drum beats.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snare drum."

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Crosswords: Snare Drum

English words defined with "snare drum": drum roll ♦ paradiddle ♦ roll ♦ snare. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Snare Drum

Domain	Title
Books	Contemporary Studies for Snare Drum (reference) Modern School: Snare Drum (reference) Podemski's Standard Snare Drum Method (reference) Snare Drum 101 book/ CD set (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Snare Drum for Beginners W/Booklet (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	OPEN-CLOSE-OPEN: American Contest Solos for Snare Drum (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Snare Drum

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Sounds Captioned with "Snare Drum".

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Film score style excerpt featuring horns, calliope, and snare drum.		Snare drum with insistent melody and arpeggios creating a sense of urgency.
	A snare drum followed by a crash cymbal in a typical joke-ending manner.		A quick snare drum roll.
	Synthesized snare drum.		Military-style snare drum beat.
	Snare drum roll.		Snare drum beat.
	A loud snare drum hit.		A single snare drum hit.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snare Drum

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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Modern Translation: Snare Drum

Language		Translations for "snare drum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Manx		drummey streng. (various references)

Pig Latin		aresnay umdray

Spanish		tambor militar pequeño. (various references)

Swedish		liten trumma. (various references)

Turkish		trampet (tattoo). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Snare Drum

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: underarms.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-n-r-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: duramens, eardrums, manurers, maunders, surnamed, surnamer, underarm, unmarred.
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	-3 letters: amends, amused, amuser, armers, armure, damner, darers, darner, demurs, denars, dermas, desman, dreams, drears, dunams, durras, errand, madres, manure, marred, maunds, medusa, menads, mudras, murder.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-n-r-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: maunderers, unmarrieds.
	+3 letters: barramundies.
	+4 letters: undergarments, unembarrassed, untransformed.
	+5 letters: ultramodernist.
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