The drum turns as the players move on and off-stage, but it is in the centrepiece, rising and falling to reveal the myriad new worlds, that it really comes to life.

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Push lets you add drum hits by tapping the pads on and off as the loop plays, but you can also record a pattern in live if you're a bit of a finger-drummer.

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The problem was that it was spinning so fast that the drum would blow out and the characters would fly off.

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To help drum up interest earlier in the day, Shirley had tipped off two reporters from The Washington Post to Jones's appearance.

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Officers who let peers be dispatched to time-intensive calls in their beat and minutes later came off of the call they were working, or who magically happened to drum up a car stop when dispatch was trying to send them to a call, were murmured about in the locker room.

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Rocking out to the blaring guitar riffs, wailing harmonica and gut-rattling drum rolls by house band Kostiza is a great way to kick off a night of bar hopping.

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Burch kicks off "Honey Blue" by pounding on the animal skin stretched across his childhood drum set for a "tom tom" beat.

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The pulsing drum beat and brawny guitar riffs in the opening bars of "Feel So Fine" kick off the album with an impressive gusto.

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Churn butter, knit, fight or drum, at night, for fun, you'll watch the sunset, swat mosquitoes off each other's backs--it was good enough for out fore fathers.

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