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A foot drum is any type of drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
 that is typically played by striking it with the bare foot or pedal and beater combination. The most common type of foot drum is the kick drum or bass drum
Bass drum

A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch . There are three general classifications of bass drums: the concert bass drum, the kick' drum, and the pitched bass drum....
 of a drum set or trap kit, which consists of a deep cylindrical shell with drumheads attached to both ends.

aeologists have unearthed 'foot drums' in several southwestern and central-Californian US Native American archaeological sites inhabited, or formally inhabited, by the Miwok
Miwok

Miwok can refer to any one of four linguistically-related groups of Native Americans in the United States, who lived in what is now Northern California, who spoke one of the Miwokan languages in the Utian languages family....
, Maidu
Maidu

The Maidu are a group of Native Americans in the United States who live in Northern California. They reside in the central Sierra Nevada , in the drainage area of the Feather River and American River Rivers....
, Aztec
Aztec

Aztec is a term used to refer to certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl and who achieved political and military dominance over large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the Late post-Classic period in Mesoamerican chronology....
, and Hopi
Hopi

The Hopi are American Indians in the United States people who primarily live on the 12,635 km? Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi Reservation is entirely surrounded by the much larger Navajo Reservation....
 Indian tribes.






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A foot drum is any type of drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
 that is typically played by striking it with the bare foot or pedal and beater combination. The most common type of foot drum is the kick drum or bass drum
Bass drum

A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch . There are three general classifications of bass drums: the concert bass drum, the kick' drum, and the pitched bass drum....
 of a drum set or trap kit, which consists of a deep cylindrical shell with drumheads attached to both ends.

Instrument History

Archaeologists have unearthed 'foot drums' in several southwestern and central-Californian US Native American archaeological sites inhabited, or formally inhabited, by the Miwok
Miwok

Miwok can refer to any one of four linguistically-related groups of Native Americans in the United States, who lived in what is now Northern California, who spoke one of the Miwokan languages in the Utian languages family....
, Maidu
Maidu

The Maidu are a group of Native Americans in the United States who live in Northern California. They reside in the central Sierra Nevada , in the drainage area of the Feather River and American River Rivers....
, Aztec
Aztec

Aztec is a term used to refer to certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl and who achieved political and military dominance over large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the Late post-Classic period in Mesoamerican chronology....
, and Hopi
Hopi

The Hopi are American Indians in the United States people who primarily live on the 12,635 km? Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi Reservation is entirely surrounded by the much larger Navajo Reservation....
 Indian tribes. These drums were often semicircle cross-sectioned hollow logs laid over wood covered 'resonating' pits positioned according to custom in kivas or dance houses. The foot drums were played by stomping on top of the hollow log with the structure's poles used for steadying.




Since the 1930s, many Chicago area musicians, producers, and engineers have referred to the bass drum as the foot drum or 'foot.' Although not commonly used today, the 'foot drum' name is still used in areas of the music recording industry.


Although now a major component of typical drum kits, foot drums were often played with pedals singularly or in combination with other foot played percussion instruments manufactured in the early-20th century by Sonor, Max Flemming, Duplex and Viktoria companies.


Besides the typical bass drum and pedal, there are other varieties and playing styles of foot drums. They range from complete foot pedal played drum kits to a heel struck Cajon
Cajón

A caj?n is a kind of box drum played by slapping the front face with the hands....
 and stompbox.

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