Drumming may refer to: * the act of playing the

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a ...

s or other percussion instruments * Drummer, a musician who plays a drum,

drum kit A drum kit or drum set (also known as a trap set, or simply drums in popular music and jazz contexts) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one p ...

, or drums * ''Drumming'' (Reich), a musical composition written by Steve Reich in 1971 for percussion ensemble *

Drumming (snipe) Drumming (also called bleating or winnowing) is a sound produced by snipe as part of their courtship display flights.Van Casteren, A, et al. “Sonation in the Male Common Snipe (Capella Gallinago Gallinago L.) Is Achieved by a Flag-like Flutterin ...

, mechanical sound produced by snipe in the course of aerial courtship displays * the rapid, repetitive series of strikes of a

woodpecker Woodpeckers are part of the bird family (biology), family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar and the extreme ...

's bill on a tree or other substrate to establish territory or attract a mate * a mating display of animals such as birds, often in connection with a lek

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