HISTORY OF DRUMS

AND DRUM ARTISTS

1920-1990
BY:ROGUE
CARRUTHERS
 Chapter 1

1920-1930
DRUM KITS
AND
DRUMERS
The classic drum kits in the 1920-1930 are
usually based off of nature and sometimes
have paintings on the base drum. Also some
drum kits in the 1920s had snad paper for a
percussion instrument. In the 1930s the
drum kits had a lot of Chinease
instruments including a Chinease cymbal,
tambourine, and tack head tom tom. The
1930s drum kit also included a small
double wood block witch was somewhat
common for kits in its era.
 Popular Drummers
1920-1930s

The drummers of the 1920-1930s were

mostly jazz drummers and there were
not alot of them being that drumms
just were invented. Gene Krupa was
GENE KRUPA the first drum star of the 1930s and
was a jazz drummer. Baby Dodds was
❖ Gene Krupa was a jazz drummer in The father of Traditional Jazz drums.
the mid-1930s
❖ Through his work with Benny
Also Zutty Singleton was a Pioneer
Goodman Krupa became the first New Orleans drummer.
drum star
❖ Bringing Krupa to the center stage
through flashy drum songs such as
“Sing, Sing, Sing”

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 Chapter 2

1940-1950
DRUM KITS
AND
DRUMMERS
The drum kits in the 1940s didn’t have
many hardware changes but had less
paintings on the base drum. The drum
kits stopped focusing on nature for the
style and had more plain and focused
colors. The music changed a lot during
the 1940s-1950s for example rock and
roll came out in the 1940s-1950s and
caused incredible revolution in the
history of popular music.

SONNY GREER
❖ Sonny Greer was born 1895
❖ His genre was Big Band Swing
❖ He played many 1940 classics
that rocked
❖ His 5 most famous tracks were
Cotton Tial
❖ Ko-Ko
Popular Drummers
1940s-1950s
The drummers of 1940s-1950
mostly consisted of jazz drummers
like 1920s-1930. Baby Dodds and
many other jazz drummers from the
1920s-1930 were still alive and still
played in bands. Also there was
country music going on in the
1940s.

❖ Conga Brava

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 Chapter 3
1960-1970
DRUM KITS
AND
DRUMMERS
The drum kits of the 1960s-1970 had a
shiny luster and a blend of differant
shades of colors into a magnificant
stripe pattern .The differant types of
drums in the kit were like ther ones in
the 1950s but had more differant types
of drums on them.

BUDDY RICH
❖ Buddy Rich was a drummer in the
1970s
❖ He preformed many songs including
Groovin’ Hard
❖ Born September 30, 1917
❖ Died April 2, 1987
Popular Drummers
1960-1970s
Most of the drummers born in the
1970s are still alive today. Some of
them are dead but were famous at
thier time. Most of the dead ones
were jazz. The alive ones are rock
and pop. Simon Phillips is a rock,
pop, and jazz drummer that is still
alive today.
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 Chapter 4
1980-1990S
DRUM KITS
AND
DRUMMERS
The drum kits of the 1980-1990s had alot
of drums connected to them. The drums
were colored fairly normally. The drum
kits back then were very similar but were
set up differantly then the ones today.
 Popular Drummers
1980-1990s

The drummers in the 1980-1990s

mostly consisted of rock or jazz
and are still alive today. They
wrote alot of songs and are fairly
popular.
TERRY BOZZIO

❖ bestknown for his work

with Missing Persons and
Frank Zappa
❖ 26albums with Zappa and
seven with Missing
Persons

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THE END!