bass drum
Noun
Meaning
The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.
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Examples
I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.
When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.
I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.
I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.
If you extracted the bass drum and the guitar and the microphone and put me in a lonesome room at certain moments in the set I'd look like an embarrassing screaming maniac.
A bass drum pedal operates much the same as the hi-hat control; a footplate is pressed to pull a chain, belt, or metal drive mechanism downward, bringing a beater or mallet forward into the drumhead.