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Tambourines in rock music are most often headless, a ring with jangles but no skin. From Wikipedia. This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.

Besides piano, other instruments were sometimes used in the studio, including bass drum, tambourine and various electronic keyboards.

In the comics and the movie, she plays the bass; in the cartoons, she plays tambourine. The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle and tambourine.

Salamanca is known as the home of tuna, a serenade played with guitars and tambourines, mostly by students dressed in medieval clothing.

Jota instruments include the castanets, guitar, bandurria, tambourines and sometimes the flute. The dulcimer, tambourine , and triangle featured in their act on occasion, and the children also sang.

When she handed me a tambourine , her manner communicated kindness and inclusion. Lead and backing vocals were recorded twice onto take 9, along with a tambourine.

Translations of tambourine in Chinese Traditional. Need a translator? Translator tool. Ancient Greek red-figure oinochoe , ca.

Notice the coloured decorative woven stripes hanging on the tambourine, which can still be seen today on "tamburello", the tambourine of Southern Italy.

Maenad playing a tympanum. Detail from the Triumph of Dionysus, on a Roman mosaic from Tunisia 3rd century AD. Girl playing a tambourine. Detail from Recreation , by Charles Sprague Pearce.

Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building , Washington, D. The tambourine can be held in the hand or mounted on a stand, and can be played in numerous ways, from stroking or shaking the jingles to striking it sharply with the hand or a stick or using the tambourine to strike the leg or hip.

There are several ways to achieve a tambourine roll. The easiest method is to rapidly rotate the hand holding the tambourine back and forth, pivoting at the wrist.

An advanced playing technique is known as the thumb or finger roll. The thumb or middle finger of the hand not holding the tambourine is run around the head of the instrument approximately one centimeter from the rim with some pressure applied.

If performed correctly, the finger should bounce along the head rapidly, producing the roll. Usually, the end of the roll is articulated using the heel of the hand or another finger.

Beeswax or rosin is commonly smeared around the edges of the head to assist in the technique. These materials increase friction making it easier to execute.

A continuous roll can be achieved by moving the thumb in a "figure of 8" pattern around the head. Various European folk traditions include the tambourine.

The Romani people used the tambourine as a percussion instrument, and it was often passed around the audience to collect money after a performance.

In the late s, the tambourine had a surge in popularity in England, with some composers of salon music writing parts for tambourine, indicating as many as 30 different playing strokes or moves.

The tambourines of this era often had a circular hole in the frame for the thumb, as one of the moves was to spin the tambourine on the upright thumb.

In the late 19th century, The Salvation Army codified the tambourine as one of their important rhythm instruments. They preferred the term " timbrel " which was taken from the Bible.

By , Salvation Army performances often entailed elaborate tambourine choreography performed by squads in para-military style, more for visual appeal than for musicality.

African American slaves were denied drums which might be used for long-distance communication. To supply rhythm in music, they turned to smaller percussion instruments such as the bones and the tambourine, as well as clapping and body percussion.

The tambourine could accompany the singing of spirituals , and it was used for celebrations and dancing. On stage, the tambourine and bones players in minstrelsy stood to the far left and far right of the Interlocutor master of ceremonies and were titled Brother Tambo and Brother Bones: because of their position they were called the end men.

The tambourine was also used in some vaudeville acts, including the s dance and musical performances of Master Juba who was able to elicit a wide range of sounds from the instrument including the chugging of a steam train.

Used for Pentecostal praise in revival meetings in the early 20th century, by the s the tambourine was firmly established as the primary percussion instrument of gospel music.

The tambourine was played by gospel groups and choirs, and carried prominently by singers who did not otherwise play an instrument, notably by Bessie Jones and Luther Magby.

At the same time, the tambourine expanded from gospel music to various forms of African American popular music including blues and jazz.

For instance, singer and guitarist Blind Roosevelt Graves was accompanied by his brother Uaroy on tambourine and voice, singing both sacred and secular songs.

Singer-songwriter Josh White got his start as a child performing for handouts in the street with an exuberant tambourine performance, beating the instrument's drumhead on his elbows, knees, and head.

In the s as gospel elements were incorporated into rhythm and blues by African American singers such as Ray Charles , the tambourine often accompanied the changes.

It continued its foray into popular music within the music of Motown. Motown singers and musicians often grew up with gospel music, and they carried the tambourine into pop performance.

The Supremes performed with two tambourines — more for choreography than percussion — played by Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson standing apart from Diana Ross.

Inspired by African American examples, musicians of all races have used the tambourine in modern pop music. It was featured in " Green Tambourine ", a busking -oriented song from the Lemon Pipers , a s white American band.

Similarly, the Byrds released " Mr. Tambourine Man " in , a folk rock and psychedelic rock song about a dealer of illegal drugs.

The tambourine part of the song serves to drive the beat forward. Singers who rarely play an instrument are likely to play the tambourine at concerts: [11] among the most well-known examples are Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones , Jim Morrison of the Doors , [12] Janis Joplin leading Big Brother and the Holding Company , and Stevie Nicks as part of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo performer.

Very often, the instrument used in pop music is the headless tambourine or "jingle ring", lacking a drum head. Ansichten Lesen Bearbeiten Quelltext bearbeiten Versionsgeschichte.

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