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percussion

noun as in drumming

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Other parts of the score feature jazz percussion and trumpets befitting 1950s England, where the story takes place.

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Late in the album, the typically hushed “I Love You” tries something new, closing out with dramatic and bizarrely distorted percussion.

Mr. Taylor is from a musical household and grew up in Arizona and Chicago, learning classical guitar and jazz percussion.

A recent hypnotic percussion piece of diced rhythms and pureed textures is called “the so-called laws of nature.”

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Like the time Gabriel spends in Faith’s company, “The Predicament” is full of “sparks and kicks and swerves and percussions.”

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