How to Use snare drum in a Sentence

snare drum

noun

• The guitars stop, the snare drum hits and there's dead air in the song.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• The louder ones have all the subtlety of a kid with a snare drum.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2022
• The $800 snare drum would be perfect for a drummer in a go-go band.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• Rather, the basic Fetch looks like a large snare drum, or a round ottoman.
  — Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
• A lot of the backbeats are on the high-hat or really lightly on the snare drum.
  — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021
• In high school, Paula was active in the band, playing the snare drum in the marching band and the marimba in the concert band.
  — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• When the team played rock music, Cog managed to beat out a passable rhythm on a snare drum.
  — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 24 Aug. 2021
• Finally, there’s a horn blast, a whistle, or a snare drum in a siren call of joy and release.
  — National Geographic, 26 June 2020
• The heart of the play, though, lies in the minutiae: the coffee maker, the intricacies of a bass line, how to tune a snare drum.
  — Vulture, 29 Oct. 2023
• McCartney chopped a beat across a snare drum and Davis played a handful of riffs, as the room filled with the sound of a band trying to find a groove.
  — David Gambacorta, Longreads, 25 June 2019
• One of the distinctive qualities of your music is the snare drum sound.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• Girls in yellow wigs and neon-blue uniforms high-kicked to the rhythm of a snare drum, while people in the crowd bounced along to the beat thrumming from the marching band.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2021
• 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 production is lush and full, a wall of sound built from colossal snare drums and frantic strings, waves of horns and textured piano.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• In the video, the 47-year-old musician is seen playing on a snare drum pad, next to the medical equipment and the doctor’s station.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• If uttered on stage, this quip could be accompanied by a snare drum rim shot.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
• As someone who grew up in the Dodgers’ family and now can’t stand the sight of them, who wants to beat them as Buddy Rich might machine-gun his snare drum.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
• The graveyard swelled with mourners and blaring serenades for the dead — the sounds of snare drums, saxophones and sobbing.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
• One person was wearing a Gumby costume and banging on a snare drum.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 25 Oct. 2022
• But snare drum rim shots and cymbal crashes may figure into the equation.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
• The latter’s defining crescendo sometimes got ahead of itself, swamping even the snare drum.
  — Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022
• The sound of umbrellas being rapidly opened and shut stands in for the flapping wings of birds; the sharp report of a snare drum indicates a rifle shot.
  — Chris Klimek, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• That big gated snare drum, the sound of the street, the new bebop stuff that was happening, the kids that were dancing on the cardboard slack, that sound, that drum, that aided snare, that big trashy drum.
  — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
• The pulses of starlight could be separated into two main frequencies: a faster one like the beat of a snare drum and a slower one like a gong, with the two rhythms played out of sync.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015
• Watts tended to pull his right hand away on the upbeat, giving his left a clear path to the snare drum — lending the beat a strong but slightly off-kilter momentum.
  — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• The video's producer, Sylvia Massy, took a short video showing what a single snare drum hit sounds like in the towering concrete structure.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2018
• Here the organ joins the regal instrumentation over the steady rhythm of the full percussion battery ablaze with snare drum and cymbals.
  — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• These days, Sherry is a Middle Eastern dance instructor who plays snare drum in Ryan’s bagpipe band.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 25 May 2021
• Later, drummer Larry Tolfree overdubbed a real snare drum on top of the fake one to give it an authentic sound.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 June 2018
• The post-grunge song opens with Matt Roberts’s electric guitar playing alone for four measures before Brad Arnold begins playing a martial beat on the snare drum.
  — WSJ, 19 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024