What Is a Drum Kit? What Are Its Parts?

A drum kit is a set of percussion instruments consisting of drums and cymbals.

The Turkish word “bateri” comes from French. In English, “drum” means an individual drum, or “davul” in Turkish.

A standard drum kit includes:

1) Bass drum

2) Snare drum

3) Tom 1

4) Tom 2

5) Floor tom

6) Hi-hat

7) Ride cymbal

8) Crash cymbal

- One snare stand, one hi-hat stand, two cymbal stands and one bass drum pedal.

We use drumsticks for hand strokes and our feet to operate the bass drum pedal and hi-hat stand.

Okan Can Telci
Rekor Sanat – Drum Teacher