How to Use drum kit in a Sentence

drum kit

noun
  • Bill comes out from behind the drum kit to play bass on that song.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
  • Saturday’s Coachella set marked the first time the green drum kit and Bradley’s guitar were on the same stage since the last Sublime tour in 1996.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 14 Apr. 2024
  • There’s no word yet on who’ll be at the drum kit for Foo Fighters, and a publicist for the band declined to comment.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 28 Feb. 2023
  • From the very beginning, Polci had a vocal mic near his drum kit.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • There are guitars, a drum kit, drum machines and lots of percussion.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 June 2023
  • And here's Summer practicing her rhythm behind the drum kit!
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 17 Aug. 2023
  • On that song, Peter went onto the drum kit for double duty, thinking, This’ll be easy.
    Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023
  • There was Ringo Starr, wailing away on his Ludwig Downbeat oyster black pearl drum kit.
    Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Then, after a terrible, long moment, the drummer in the onstage band, Eric Farber, leaped over his drum kit, scaled the balcony, and stamped out the flames.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Growing up in Ohio, Rowland’s first musical love as a kid was his older brother’s drum kit.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Next to an upright piano, its innards exposed to reveal felt hammers and strings, sits a slightly bruised drum kit.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Barker immediately walked out from behind his drum kit to make his way to Kardashian in the crowd.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 17 June 2023
  • And doing these amazing shows, throwing himself into his drum kit.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Near the 2-minute mark during the sing-along bridge, G Flip picks up drumsticks and spins one of them in their right hand before pounding on the drum kit as the string section assists bringing the cover to its crescendo.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Onstage was a drum kit the late musician recently purchased.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Barker also shared photos in the carousel that showed him in a studio sitting next to a drum kit, laughing next to his Blink-182 bandmate Tom DeLonge, as well as a snap of a tasty-looking pizza .
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Following the chimes of church bells, a slippery breakbeat cuts itself off only to layer back atop it, like a drum kit interrupting itself mid-rant with another, more frenzied speech rife with nervous tics.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2023
  • To this list, Clearmountain included everything from tuning the Power Station’s Ludwig drum kit to his specifications to using the room’s ambience as part of the vocal recording process.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Less expensive and much quieter than a traditional drum kit, the Pyle Electronic Drum Kit features seven electric drum pads with 300 different sounds for a realistic experience.
    Deanna McCormack, Parents, 19 Mar. 2024
  • In particular, the percussion shone with mallet instruments, drum kit, and a dazzling menagerie of auxiliary sounds, especially effective in the extended percussion cadenza that closes the work.
    Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023

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