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Drum is one of the oldest musical instrument in the world. This instrument is used before the year 6000 BCE (BCE). Formerly African nations use the drum to play music, dance accompaniment for the ceremony, a warning sign of danger, and instructed the advanced troops into battle. But of course it should not be now. At first drum consists of a tom tom. Their invasion of Europe and the Middle East to Africa causing the drum is increasingly recognized and growing so as to create Stringed drum.

Subsequent developments, the year 1500 AD, Europe tried to subdue the Americans to establish a new colony. Europeans brought Africans to be traded so that the culture of European, African, and Native Americans mingle. But the black Africans should not be playing music white people. Therefore they created a drum-set (a set of drums) on African drums they bring to play music. Only in the 20th century the American people began to be interested in learning the drum, then the drum was growing until reaching their present form (acoustic drums). At this time the drum is more advanced, if there is now a guitar, piano, and electric violin, the drum was already there were electric.

Approximately in 1800, drum-set was played by several musicians, each playing the snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, and others joined in a group of musicians with a lot of players or big-band. At the end of 1890, the procedures for playing drum-set began to change. Since the musicians started playing in places where the theater is small, it is not possible for musicians to play the drums by three or more players. Therefore, they are trying to reduce the number of players of drums, for example, a drummer plays several percussion instruments.