A bass drum is the big deep drum struck with a pedal. Kick the bass drum.
You feel it more than you hear it, and it sets the pulse everybody else follows. A bass drum in an orchestra is played with a beater by hand and is bigger still.
1nounbass drumThe big deep drum struck with a pedal.
“The bass drum was the only thing audible from the street.”
bass drum is a drum.
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