Auxiliary Percussion
Auxiliary percussion (also known as battery percussion or accessory percussion) include instruments like the triangle, castanets, and tambourine. These instruments are often overlooked and treated as trivial or unimportant simply because, to the untrained eye (or ear), they seem easy to play. The truth is, however, that auxiliary percussion often requires the most use of extended techniques and that the parts for these instruments are frequently the most difficult. Other auxiliary percussion instruments include:
- Wood block
- Temple blocks
- Shaker
- Finger cymbals
- Claves
- Güiro
- Maracas
- Bongos
- Congas
- Djembe
- China cymbal
- Crash cymbal
- Suspended cymbal
- Ride cymbal
- Hi-hat
- Wind chimes
- Cowbell
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