Classroom Percussion Family Tree

Classroom Percussion Family Tree

Classroom Percussion

Membranes

Shakers

Scrapers

Woods

Metals

• Made of wood, metal, or plastic
• Played by shaking
• Sound like rattles

• Made of wood, metal, or plastic
• Played by scraping
• Sound like scraping
• crunch
• scratch

• Made of wood
• Sound like wood
• tick-tock
• clop, clop
• knock, knock

• Made of metal
• Sound bright
• ching
• ring
• crash

• A thin "membrane" stretched over an opening
• Sound like drums
• boom
• thump
• thud
• tap

Tubano

Tambourine

Wooden Agogo

Guiro

Maracas

Agogo Bells

Hooves

Wood Block

Cabasa

Doumbek

Crow Sounder

Djembe

Crow Sounder

Caxixi

Crash Cymbals

Castanets

Frame Drum

Sand Blocks

Tambourine

Finger Cymbals

Claves

Gathering Drum

Shekere

Ratchet

Triangle