How to Use bass drum in a Sentence

bass drum

noun
  • Off to one side is a wig case big enough to hold a bass drum.
    — Karen Schoemer, SPIN, 1 May 2022
  • There was no bass drum, just a snare and a hi-hat and a cymbal.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 28 June 2024
  • Before the music stopped the last sound heard was the pounding of a bass drum.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 4 Feb. 2023
  • While the band was setting up, Lee had a seizure, fell, and hit his head on a bass drum.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2022
  • Then, the bass drums, snares, and symbols come alive with a thunderous roar.
    — Matt Dursum, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Janzen talked Howard into playing bass drum in the marching band.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 23 Dec. 2021
  • That means bass drum, snare drum, stereo drum mix, bass guitar, mono, and a couple of guitar parts.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • To me, the sound of that bass drum signaled fall just as clearly as the weather forecast.
    — Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • So when John went back to one bass drum, the Led Zeppelin drum set was born.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • In a passage about the sun, the music frolics with spring-like joy, propelled by bass drum hits.
    — Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2022
  • In the rear, the head of a bass drum was scraped by a scrub brush, producing a sound like that of a wind machine.
    — Richard S. Ginell, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Though singing acapella, Williams was joined by rolling thunder that sounded like a bass drum.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 31 July 2020
  • Inside the gym, a small but raucous cheering section chanted to the beat of a bass drum.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Instruction is provided for fife, snare and bass drum as well as marching.
    — Courant Community, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Yet aggressive accents from the bass drum, near the edge of the stage, were deafening.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 29 May 2021
  • Stehr, who will play the bass drum in the parade, said her high school band directors inspired her and shaped her career.
    — Nicole Nielsen, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Timpani, bass drums, and piano follow with a concussive thud.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Rolls on the bass drum threaten to engulf the entire tottering edifice in a cloud of noise.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022
  • There’s a major bass drum accompanied by a major bass drumstick.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
  • The opening 30 seconds of the four-minute track pulse with chanting, the crackle of snares, the thump of bass drums and the thick roar of horns.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Football games do feature Bevo the steer and Big Bertha, the large bass drum of the marching band.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 2 July 2023
  • The score explored many different ways in which a bass drum or tam-tam could be sounded — with sticks, fingers, a ceramic cup or claves.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2021
  • At some point the yearning is answered, at first chthonically, by the bass drum, later by the insistent jump of the high-hat.
    — Geoff Dyer, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Female vocal trio Runaway June opened with a set marred by an overly loud bass drum that drowned out the three-part harmonies.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Sound design—the particular timbre of a bass drum or a synth sweep—often defines the identity of a track.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But the two drummers did arrive equipped with complementary bass drum heads, each depicting Méliès-like faces of the sun and the moon.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The constant thumping of the bass drum evokes the distant churn of the tide as heard from the seafloor, sending seaweed into a slow dance, shuffling side-to-side.
    — Hazlitt, 23 Nov. 2022
  • So many things go into tweaking the snare drum and making sure the bass drum is hitting the right way and that the hi-hat is in the right pocket and getting the right swing.
    — Megan Armstrong, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Fiddle-Henge A towering robotic sculpture that mounts four green violins around a bass drum.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Your late drummer, Keith Moon, had loaded his bass drum with more than enough explosives to create drama at the end of your song set.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022

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