percussion


1) any instrument that is played by striking or hitting.
2) a section in a band or orchestra, in which the players strike the instrument to play it.
3) not a drummer.
1) what instrument do you play? i play percussion.
2) everyone listen back to the percussion for tempo, because its right on.
a percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scr-ped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. the term usually applies to an object used in a rhythmic context and/or with musical intent.

the word, “percussion”, has evolved from latin terms: “percussio” (which translates as “to beat, strike” in the musical sense, rather than the violent action), and “percussus” (which is a noun meaning “a beating”). as a noun in contemporary english it is described at wiktionary as “the collision of two bodies to produce a sound”. the usage of the term is not unique to music but has application in medicine and weaponry, as in percussion cap, but all known and common uses of the word, “percussion”, appear to share a similar lineage beginning with the original latin: “percussus”. in a musical context then, the term “percussion instruments” may have been coined originally to describe a family of instruments including drums, rattles, metal plates, or wooden blocks which musicians would beat or strike (as in a collision) to produce sound.

percussion:
spokes on a bicycle wheel
brooms
a shopping cart
metal pipes
clay pots
garbage cans
usually considered as the people in the band who can’t play an instrument or read music. this group is the one that in the definition (band) usually loses their virginity first if they aren’t a slob.
band kid 1: who are those people in the back and why are they hitting stuff?
band kid 2: the percussion! i just know that without them you suck because you can’t stay together with the band.

band kid 1: oh no
kool-aid man: oh yeah!!!
a group in the band played by the people without musical talent who usually just sit there and talk to each other the whole cl-ss. they are the -ssholes who get the conductor mad all the time. annoys the h-ll out of the trumpets who sit right in front of them.
percussion:jabber jabber jabber
trumpet:ssh! the conductor said to be quiet!
percussion:shut up! im watchin’ south park on my i-pod!

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