drummers
Rhythm section players
Drummers are people who play drums, especially as musicians in bands or orchestras.
The word extends to anyone who beats a drum—military drummers keeping time for marching troops, or a child with a toy drum.
In older usage, a drummer was a traveling salesman who drummed up business by going door to door.
Patterned stress and silence
- beatsPulses or defeats
- sticksSlender wood pieces
- snareDevice for catching prey
- kitGrouped supplies, one purpose
cymbals · tempo · fills · rudiments · paradiddle · hi-hat · tom-tom · practice pad
Military unit or group
- marchingRhythmic group walking
- paradeCeremonial public procession
- cadenceRhythmic pulse or pattern
- formationCreation or arrangement
uniform · regiment · tattoo · bugle · fife · snare · procession · ceremony
Solid earthen material
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- metalHard conductive solid
- funkDepression or groove music
- bluesMournful American music genre
reggae · orchestral · marching · taiko · djembe · tabla · cajon · bongo
rhythm
Patterned stress and silence
kit · cymbals · tempo · fills · rudiments · paradiddle · hi-hat · tom-tom · practice pad · metronome
corps
Military unit or group
formation · uniform · regiment · tattoo · bugle · fife · snare · procession · ceremony · drill
rock
Solid earthen material
blues · reggae · orchestral · marching · taiko · djembe · tabla · cajon · bongo · conga
band
Group playing music together
- performerOne who entertains audiences
- sessionScheduled time for activity
- touringTraveling for pleasure
studio · gigging · backing · sideman · bandmate · rehearsal · setlist · stage · soundcheck · recording
Starr
Surname meaning celestial body
- BakerTrade-derived family name
- RichEnglish masculine given name
- UlrichGermanic name meaning prosperity
Copeland · Grohl · Collins · Thompson · Hussain · Sheila E · Questlove · Travis Barker · Ringo
- parade participantsmarching band, floats, majorettes, baton twirlers, color guard
- competitive performersathletes, dancers, gymnasts, figure skaters, singers
- Civil War Infantryfoot soldiers, riflemen, battle formations, battle lines, skirmishers
- Union soldiersUnion infantry, federal troops, enlisted men, volunteers, privates
- sales repssales reps, field agents, representatives, sales agents, pitchmen
- toy soldierstin soldier, tin soldiers, lead soldier, wooden soldier, nutcracker
drummerslead vocalists
Bands' main singers
frontmen · vocalists · singers · soloists · frontwomen
drummersfrontmen
Lead singers, public faces
lead singers · frontwoman · bandleaders · lead vocalists · soloists
- drummer boyYouth who beats drums
- march to one's own drummerActs by personal principles
- march to the beat of a different drummerFollowing one's own way
- march to a different drummerAct independently of others
- little drummer boyYouthful rhythm-keeper
- march to the beat of one's own drummerAct independently of others