On The Small Snare Drum, The Band Of The Band "Arabian Nights"

The drum in the initial development period, at the ceremony, with military, religion, folk things and other activities in the practical function. At that time, as a voice drum with artifacts, a symbol of status. In addition, the ghost exorcism gods, for transmission of information etc. With the continuous development and progress of mankind, with its distinct gradually drum rhythm and various sound effects, gradually evolved into a people began to slowly appreciate the aesthetic objects, begin to use in our daily life activities and musical activities. Since then, the music artistic expression of the drum gradually reflected.A membranophone double snare drum, drum from the cavity, drum circle, drum. No fixed pitch,but the sound frequency is higher than the drum. Clear and bright, and with a rustle of sound, do not have the characteristics of.In China called the drum or snare drum instruments, is kinds from Europe without fixed pitch of percussion instruments. In the pipe string symphony or other ensemble music works, the primarily is strengthening the role of music rhythm characteristics and create music atmosphere. The snare skills can be said to be the most basic percussion, and other percussion skills and is most closely connected.The other percussion instruments playing well, must have the method of playing snare drum basic science and technology must do.In the symphony for strings, woodwind, percussion, and the percussion is an indispensable important voices, percussion voices has also been called many conductors as "second in command".And snare drum in the percussion voices is particularly important, playing the snare to let the band rhythm is more stable, the level of more rich. Numerous Chinese and foreign famous composer will write the symphony, snare drum, and many of the tracks need two snare drum playing while playing snare drum, to achieve the desired effect, it also allows the snare drum has become an integral part of a symphony orchestra in an instrument, the snare drum is a percussion instrument in the most important instrument.《Arabian Nights》is Rimsky Korsakov made in 1888, is his masterpiece. The symphony suite snare part performance difficulties, which has become almost the whole world all professional symphony percussion voices compulsory a piece, various performing skills, fast continuous play, on the whole piece of music emotion are test snare drum playing excellent fragment based this work and play of emotion.the snare drum playing skills are discussed systematically in this paper to my practical experience in the Symphony Orchestra of combined with my years of practice experience from the snare drumband fragment 《Arabian Nights》 combining with the practice of basic skills of the snare drum.