I have a 3 mins presentation...

[BL_asd]

so I'm taking a speech class and I have to do a 3 mins presentation on cultrual..i'd like to talk about drum cultrual.
does anyone have a good idea how to get it started? and what kind of specific topic :confused: we don't use power point on this first speech. I'm just gonna put notes on a card and talk about it thx guys

[kdizze]

You mean culture, yeh?

Talk about the culture of different genres, punk, emo, about the clothing and different musical features.. Maybe get it started by play a cool solo? Talk about drum corps, different grips from different parts of the world..stuff like that!

(that is what you were asking isnt it..?)

[BL_asd]

hmm.. well i asked my friends too, i think i might talk about the origin of drumming...maybe somewhere in Africa

genre is good too. I can bring the drum set to school :P and it's only 3 mins, just go up and talk is more like it, thx for advice, if origin being too broad, i'll jsut pick a genre. thx a lot bro

[sLarkin20]

Maybe start with the origins, then go from there. Like how the drum culture differs from say Africa compared to America. Talk about the differences between the actual drums themselves, and they way the people play them and such.

[We_Love_Lime]

Deffenitly get in to different areas of the world, and what their relation to drums are.

Japan, Africa, The Caribbean, Middle East, India are some areas off the top of my head that are "well known" for drums. I'm sure there are plenty more, and then you can relate how each area's drums contribute to Music we here today, or how the drums play apart in each specific Culture.
Talking Drums, Drums in parades and celebrations..etc.

[Peekay]

Well the first thing that hits my mind is the slavery... those people used drumming (well, rhythmn actually) to spend their free time and to enjoy themselves, it was the one thing their "masters" couldn't take away and couldn't do themselves...

3 minutes ain't that long anyway... Just talk about the different areas of the world where drumming was an important cultural factor...

[Chippy569]

talk about how the cajon evolved from shrimp?/lobster? fishing crates, originally played by black slaves chillin' on the docks.

or talk about taiko drums from Japan, as i find those INTENSELY interesting, a completely different style than anything western.

[fpsthomas]

i had a presentation about the origin of drums once.

you can start with africa that peeple would stomp on the ground to make bass notes, and later on pieces of wood with difrent notes so it would be more dynamic and that was how the xilofoon was invented etc

[santi3hg]

I'd say start with modern drum history. The modern day drum kit as we know it came out of New Orleans(I forget what MD article it is where it was written. But yeah the advent of the drumkit and how it has evolved to fit culture needs since the decades and what not. Thats pretty fun, since people lose interest as soon as you mention a country outside of the hemisphere.

[DxRocker]

In a 3 minute speech, there is absolutely NO WAY that you can get into talking about different styles and drums around the globe and have the attention of the class from beginning to end without boring them, unless all of them are drummers.

In a speech like that, you will be forced to talk about music theory to illustrate all these genres are different from one another. This means that nobody will understand a word of what you are talking about!

Doing a speech is not about talking about things that YOU find interesting and that YOU understand.

So your best bet (if you absolutely want to talk about drums) is to just talk about how drums came to be as we know it today.

From the marching snare in the military, through the use of hi-hat on a stand, through the bassdrum pedal to what we know today as being a "drumset" and how the marching snare in the military all those years ago layed the foundation of all techniques known for drummers today (without going into technical detail).

3 minutes is far to short to talk about anything else really.