Leading trends in the formation of percussion playing skills

This article examines the leading trends in the formation of skills in playing percussion instruments. The author examines the development of percussion instruments in the Soviet Union and after Ukraine gained independence. Due to its direct and complex influence on a person, music occupies a unique place among the arts. Centuries of experience and dedicated research have shown that music has the ability to affect both the mind and body, producing both calming and stimulating effects, as well as evoking positive and negative emotions. It is believed that such education plays a decisive role not only in the formation of skills in playing an instrument, but also in the development of general cognitive abilities (such as thinking, imagination, attention, memory and will), emotional and intellectual sensitivity, moral and aesthetic needs , as well as in national and patriotic education. Wind instruments belong to the most widespread musical instruments, because they have a wonderful timbre, amazing continuous singing, diverse expressive articulation and inexhaustible technical possibilities. At all times, in all peoples, they have taken their rightful place in their musical culture. In the composition of Ukrainian folk instrumental ensembles and orchestras, percussion instruments are mandatory, as they provide a rhythmic function, in most cases determine the character of the performed repertoire, and often act as ethnic indicators of the musical genre. The development of civilization, scientific and technological progress, globalization and digitalization require constant updating of existing teaching methods and adaptation to specific tools. For this, it is necessary to constantly study the main trends in the formation of skills in playing percussion instruments. The conclusions drawn are aimed at the development of playing percussion instruments as a key factor in a full-fledged educational process and stimulating the creative development of students.