How to Use kick drum in a Sentence

kick drum

noun
  • The second best, maybe kick drum.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Is your heart thumping like an 808 kick drum?
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
  • None of the tracks, like kick drum, bass, whatever.
    — Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 15 June 2025
  • Callaghan's vocal is clear and deep, and the kick drum that drives much of the track has enough power.
    — Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026
  • The drums were louder, the extra kick drums hit harder, and the whole song felt … Blacker.
    — Ahmir “questlove” Thompson, VIBE.com, 7 June 2026
  • So many of their masterpieces open with pitter-patter percussion or a kick drum.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The kick drum has a touch of heaviness, but never crosses into muddiness.
    — Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • The percussion does a lot of the heavy lifting, as Skye’s lofty falsetto is paired with slinky tambourines and a pounding kick drum.
    — Cameron Cook, Pitchfork, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Smear was represented visually during the performance by an image of his face on the kick drum.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2026
  • It’s designed to capture rich nuances in vocals and instruments, including upright bass, guitar amps and kick drum.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • LaCorte produced a simple demo, dominated by the vocal and the guitar lick, with a faint bass and four-on-the-floor kick drum.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Her voice, still more often than not, slides with ease into the cracks and crevices that kick drums and deep grooves open in neotraditional-style country compositions.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The sound design of his kick drums deserves special mention; rather than simple heartbeats or mere rhythmic anchors, his bass drums are dynamic agents, diving in pitch across their long sustain and decay.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The Casa Bonita Quintet, as they’re called on the face of the kick drum, consists of forest animals playing piano and strumming a banjo and other instruments.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Eventually things hit blastoff as Cunningham puts a kick drum under Ciani’s percolating synths, a fusion of old and new that only underlines how badass Ciani’s sounds are.
    — Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The only time contemporary dance music rears its head is when Cunningham drops a kick drum to frame the duo’s meanderings, in the same manner that Ciani uses control voltages to corral her buzzing sounds.
    — Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 9 Apr. 2026
  • To simultaneously play percussion, Dyer also built and used a bicycle pedal toe clip modified with tambourine parts and bells, while Sanchez combined a kick drum with a tambourine.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Paradise is all interlocking supersaws, stabs of trancey synths, wobbles of acid house, and deep 808s, kitted out with muscular kick drums that feel like the sleek inside of a G6 en route to Ibiza.
    — Harry Thorfinn-George, Pitchfork, 27 Apr. 2026

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