As you know that percussion instruments are instruments, which produce sound when something is stroked or scarped on it, people way back in the later half of the 18th century used these instruments! The instrument that first comes to your mind is definitely the drum. Yes drums are percussion instruments i.e. like their counterpart the gongs they too belong to the family of percussion instruments. Like the gong even the piano comes under this group of gongs percussion instruments because hammer-striking strings are used to produce sounds.

If you listen closely then you will find that in almost all types of music percussion instruments have been used to produce sound. Right from the time man started using sound as a way of communication, drums have been used not only as a mode of music it has also been used to convey messages to people using different types of beat.

Music is the way of life and all types of music use either ethnic instruments or the more advanced world-class instruments to produce sound. 

Instruments like the bells and gongs and even the cymbals produce a note when stroked and it therefore requires that you learn the reading of music and perform as an integral part of the entire musical orchestra. To beat the drum you don’t need to have any basic knowledge, but then once you delve into the wide range of percussion instruments you will develop the required skill to read these notes.