percussion

The sound stage felt bludgeoned into submission throughout, as the intense distortion of bass, percussion and guitars made the instrument separation within the mix almost inaudible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

The overall sound is highly dramatic, with massed voices, quaking beats, horses whinnying in the distance, and percussion that evokes the threat of a rattlesnake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

On Wilkins’ program, Valerie Coleman’s dark “Fanfare for Uncommon Times” brought a listener inside brass and percussion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Having already picked up percussion, she was eventually able to sit in and play with them alongside her father and uncles.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

The “One two three” rhyme, for example, uses all four maintypes of body percussion—stamping, clapping, patsching, and snapping—but not all of the types of body percussion need to be incorporated.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Whereas on tracks like “Dime” and “Flores,” there are distinct orchestral peaks, in which subtle percussions give way to grander, more cathartic releases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

Jeremiah Green’s buoyant percussions — that frequently lift and propel Modest Mouse songs in unorthodox ways — bounced the sold-out crowd like a tattered basketball on the Showbox’s famously springy floor.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

Its percussions pull listeners in, too, with a surprise gong that bangs, or a triangle-like sound that shimmers in the background.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022

After the meeting, I just went to a studio and started recording for three weeks, and it’s all these jams, all these percussions and flutes.

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2021

The percussions of it travelled with about the velocity of sound, viz. about thirteen miles in a minute.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin