drummer

Example Sentences

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Starr: I’m the drummer — that’s how it works.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

“Let There Be Love” finds the drummer using his hands on his tom-toms to make them sound like congas, giving the track an Erroll Garner flavor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Unlike the Redondo Union trio, he doesn’t surf and plays no instruments even though his Redondo Union friends are looking for a drummer to start a band.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

The jazz virtuoso has an unusually, appealingly laid-back sound on a new archival release, recorded with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen in Detroit in 1960.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

There was a drummer boy banging away in front, and a standard bearer, and then a couple of officers on horseback, and then the marching men.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier