Western Classical Music
Jazz Drums
The Jazz Drum Set includes different types of Drums and Cymbals in the Jazz music genre. Jazz’s origin is in the African-American communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The period in 1920 and 1930s Jazz Music style gained rapid popularity and known as the Jazz Age. A Jazz Drum set is also known as Drum Kit, Trap Set or Drums. The Drums, Cymbals and other Percussion instruments in the set are mounted on stands and played by a single player with Drum Sticks. The player operates the instruments with both hands and pedals operated by feet. The foot pedal controls the Hit-Hat Cymbal and the Beater for Bass Drum. Drums are known as Membranophones and Cymbals are known as Idiophones. A standard Drum Kit normally contains the following. One Snare Drum – Mounted on a sta...
Guitar
Guitar does not need any introduction but one will always want to know its origin, different types and how to select a good guitar like that. Guitar, classified under Chordophones is also a fretted musical instruments. Like Veena, Sitar, Mandolin etc. it is also played by plucking its strings and the sound normally comes from a resonating hollow body. Guitars normally have six strings but there are guitars having 7, 8 and 12 strings. The strings of Guitar were made of Catgut which is a type of chord made of the natural fiber found in the walls of animal intestine. Usually sheep or goat intestines were used whereas cat intestines were not used despite the name. Around 1940, guitars were started using Nylon strings. Steel strings are commonly used in the modern guitars. Types of Guitars Guit...
Mandolin
Mandolin is a stringed musical instrument which belongs to the Lute family of musical instruments. Mandolins normally have four pairs (course) of double metal strings – that is eight strings. There are five and six course string versions of Mandolins in use. Being a Plucked Instrument, it is usually plucked using a plectrum. The tuning of a Mandolin is like that of a Violin, where its strings are tuned in an interval of “perfect fifths” – G3, D4, A4 and E5. Most common types of Mandolins are Neapolitan or Round-Backed, Archtop and Flat-Backed Mandolin. Each style has its own sound quality and normally associated with a particular form of music. Neapolitan Mandolins are primarily used in European Classical Music. American Folk Music and Bluegrass Music use the Archto...