Effect of stick use on rapid unimanual tapping in drummers

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 962-970

  Fujii, Shinya ^a   Oda, Shingo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSIC; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350449408     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 00315125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.108.3.962-970     Document Type: Article

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