Rhythm instrument

A musical instrument that is mainly used for playing rhythms is called a rhythm instrument . These are mainly all types of percussion instruments , such as drums and rattles . But other instruments can also be used as rhythm instruments.

When guitars or similar instruments are used to accompany songs with chords , they are also called rhythm instruments . A bass instrument can also serve as a rhythm instrument.

Internationally known are the instruments of classical music and that of Orff's school work, the rhythm instruments of Latin American music . These include claves (Rumba wood), maracas (maracas), Chocalho , Chocallo or Tubo (shaker), guiro or Güiro ( "cucumber") and cowbell or Cencerro (cowbell).

See also

• Rhythm (music)
• Rhythm section
• Percussion (music)
• Devil's violin

Remarks

1. ↑ Wieland Ziegenrücker: General music theory with questions and tasks for self-control. German Publishing House for Music, Leipzig 1977; Paperback edition: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, and Musikverlag B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-442-33003-3 , p. 179 f.