For the first time ever, an animal has been documented making tools to create music. Male palm cockatoos, Probosciger aterrimus, use their enormous beaks to break off sizable sticks from trees and ...

Like humans, chimpanzees drum with distinct rhythms – and two subspecies living on opposite sides of Africa have their own ...

Professional drummer and educator Larnell Lewis explains drumming in 13 levels of difficulty, from easy to complex. The Snarky Puppy percussionist explains how drum techniques build upon each other as ...

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results, publishing in the Cell ...

audio: A song promoting a "rhythm for success," to inspire footballers to score more goals during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, has been composed by a Durham University researcher using a ...

Different chimp troops drum with "distinct" rhythms, reveals new research. The primates use regular spacing between beats, according to the study. The "exciting" findings suggest that the ability to ...

Stepping into the garage-turned-workshop behind Joe Santiago’s house in West Hempstead, it becomes apparent that he moves to the beat of a different drum. There are tools galore — all perfectly ...

Theodore Zanto, PhD, wouldn't call himself a musician. But he knows an awful lot about how the human brain processes music. A neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Dr ...

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún players match ...