How to Use bass drum in a Sentence

bass drum

noun

• 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
• Even the guy who played the big bass drum had to dance.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2018
• Off to one side is a wig case big enough to hold a bass drum.
  — Karen Schoemer, SPIN, 1 May 2022
• 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
• So when John went back to one bass drum, the Led Zeppelin drum set was born.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• 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
• So rather than a bass drum or a kick drum, there were the more ethnic drums: doumbeks and riqs and things like that.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Our horns was our singing -- all our music was horn-driven and bass drums.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2019
• Sting: Joe would be at rehearsals in his carry cot, propping up the bass drum.
  — Linda Laban, Variety, 3 Oct. 2023
• In a passage about the sun, the music frolics with spring-like joy, propelled by bass drum hits.
  — Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Yet aggressive accents from the bass drum, near the edge of the stage, were deafening.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 29 May 2021
• One theory, the big bass drums are too heavy for women.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• Janzen talked Howard into playing bass drum in the marching band.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 23 Dec. 2021
• During one song a woman on stage pounded a large bass drum.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
• Though singing acapella, Williams was joined by rolling thunder that sounded like a bass drum.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 31 July 2020
• At the far end of the Stadium, John Adams stops mid-sentence to pound out a rafter-shaking fanfare on a bass drum in front of him.
  — Debbi Snook, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• 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
• The neck of the bass guitar meets the circle of the bass drum, and Melanie Charles’s foot connects with the bass, which forms a diagonal line with Jonathan Michel’s finger.
  — Amanda Webster, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• In the opening of Etude No. 8 in C Minor, the strings bowed long, legato phrases while cymbals crashed and a bass drum boomed in the electronics.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But instead of a pounding bass drum, the album begins with an audio clip from a 1983 Hong Kong martial arts film.
  — Andrew Chow, refinery29.com, 22 May 2018
• Instruction is provided for fife, snare and bass drum as well as marching.
  — Courant Community, 27 Mar. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024