Snare Drum

The snare drum is a drum with strands of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, plastic cable, or gut cords stretched across the a drumhead, typically the bottom. The snare drum is typically used to play a backbeat pattern such as quarter notes on the backbeat or the slightly more interesting: also sometimes in slow band songs they use a brush to touch the snare instead of hitting it with a wooden drum stick.