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ˈdrʌm ərdrum·mer

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. drummernoun

    someone who plays a drum

Wiktionary

  1. drummernoun

    One who plays the drums.

  2. drummernoun

    travelling salesman

  3. Etymology: drum (the instrument) + -er

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Drummernoun

    He whose office it is to beat the drum.

    Etymology: from drum.

    Drummer, strike up, and let us march away. William Shakespeare, H. IV.

    Here rows of drummers stand in martial file,
    And with their vellum-thunder shake the pile. John Gay, Trivia.

Wikipedia

  1. Drummer

    A drummer is a percussionist who creates music using drums. Most contemporary western bands that play rock, pop, jazz, or R&B music include a drummer for purposes including timekeeping and embellishing the musical timbre. The drummer's equipment includes a drum kit (or "drum set" or "trap set"), which includes various drums, cymbals and an assortment of accessory hardware such as pedals, standing support mechanisms, and drum sticks. Particularly in the traditional music of many countries, drummers use individual drums of various sizes and designs rather than drum kits. Some use only their hands to strike the drums.In larger ensembles, the drummer may be part of a rhythm section with other percussionists playing. These musicians provide the timing and rhythmic foundation which allow the players of melodic instruments, including voices, to coordinate their musical performance. Some famous drummers include: Max Roach, Ringo Starr (The Beatles), John Bonham (Led Zeppelin), Ginger Baker (Cream), Keith Moon (The Who), Neil Peart (Rush), Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Brian Blade, Jack DeJohnette, Tim "Herb" Alexander (Primus), Phil Rudd (AC/DC), Roger Taylor (Queen), Charlie Watts (The Rolling Stones), Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Bill Ward (Black Sabbath), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Travis Barker (Blink-182), Phil Collins (Genesis), Rick Allen (Def Leppard), Alex Van Halen (Van Halen), Tré Cool (Green Day), Dave Grohl (Nirvana), Joey Jordison (Slipknot), Lars Ulrich (Metallica), Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe), and James “The Rev” Sullivan (Avenged Sevenfold). As well as the primary rhythmic function, in some musical styles, such as world, jazz, classical, and electronica, the drummer is called upon to provide solo and lead performances, at times when the main feature of the music is the rhythmic development. Drummers tend to possess considerable stamina and hands-eyes-legs coordination. There are many tools that a drummer can use for either timekeeping or soloing. These include cymbals (china, crash, ride, splash, hi-hats, etc.), snare, toms, auxiliary percussion (bells, Latin drums, cowbells, temple blocks) and many others. There are also single, double, and triple bass pedals that drummers may use for the bass drum.

ChatGPT

  1. drummer

    A drummer is a musician who plays the drums, typically as part of a band or orchestra. This involves striking various parts of the drums with sticks or hands to produce different sounds and rhythms. A drummer can play a range of instruments including snare drums, cymbals, bass drums and other percussion instruments. They may also use electronic drum kits and may be involved in songwriting, singing or other forms of musicianship.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Drummernoun

    one whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching

  2. Drummernoun

    one who solicits custom; a commercial traveler

  3. Drummernoun

    a fish that makes a sound when caught

  4. Drummernoun

    the squeteague

  5. Drummernoun

    a California sculpin

  6. Drummernoun

    a large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call

Wikidata

  1. Drummer

    A drummer is a musician who plays drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a wide assortment of musical genres. The term percussionist applies to a musician who performs struck musical instruments of numerous diverse shapes, sizes and applications. Most contemporary western ensembles bands for rock, pop, jazz, R&B etc. include a drummer for purposes including but not limited to timekeeping. Most drummers of this particular designation work within the context of a larger contingent that may also include, keyboard and/or guitar, auxiliary percussion and bass. Said ensembles may also include melodic based mallet percussion including but not limited to: vibraphone, marimba and/or xylophone. The rhythm section, being the core metronomic foundation with which other melodic instruments, including voices, may present the harmonic/melodic portion of the material.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. drummer

    The marine who beats the drum, and whose pay is equivalent to that of a private of fourteen years' standing. Also, a singular fish of the corvinas kind, which has the faculty of emitting musical noises, whence it has acquired the name of crocros.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. drummer

    The soldier who plays a drum. The majority of drummers are boys, generally the sons of soldiers. In former times it was the part of a drummer’s duty to flog men sentenced to corporal punishment.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DRUMMER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Drummer is ranked #14050 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Drummer surname appeared 2,143 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Drummer.

    57.9% or 1,242 total occurrences were Black.
    37.6% or 806 total occurrences were White.
    2.1% or 46 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.7% or 37 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drummer in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drummer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of drummer in a Sentence

  1. Professor Gil Weinberg:

    We let the arm move to different drums by following where the drummer is and where the arm is with sensors on the arm itself. Some of them are embedded to make it oriented correctly and some of them is from afar to know the whole environment in general, and that's where based on your gestures the arm can move to the different drums that you are interested in.

  2. Simon Hanson:

    Drummers can have the effect of two bass drums by having a pedal which is double where you only have one and the mechanism will play as if it's a double bass drum. It's similar to that in a way, i think because the drummer's not directly controlling it from his brain - although it looks like might be able to do that in the future, which has its own complications - it would for me be an add-on to a kit so I could trigger a sample or a different instrument. The basic drum kit is great. Two hands are okay and when I'm producing and there's other drummers playing I get them to play with one hand because I think drums with one hand sounds better in many ways.

  3. Michael Grandner:

    You want to build a reliable rhythm, much like the drummer counting the beat for the band, by controlling when you wake up and go to bed, you're setting the beat.

  4. Gordon Lightfoot:

    I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

  5. Hubert Humphrey:

    The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

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