
Battery born in early S. XX. The main constituent elements (drum, box, dishes, ...) existed in classical orchestras and military fanfares. The appearance of the battery is directly connected with the emergence of Jazz, although the technology gap that existed at the beginning of the century.
Towards 1910 in United States, the orchestra played with 3 and 4 percussionists (one for the box, one for the kick and the other for different items such as dishes, Chinese boxes, etc..) Or only two if played fanfares. The invention of the box and walk mostly hype foot (marketed in 1910 by Ludwig) can assemble the different elements to be touched for less than instrumentalists. The arrival of Ragtime and the need of musicians for the dance halls, make it necessary to finish the assembly of the battery, where one performer played all the above elements.
At this time, the role of the battery was to follow and keep pace with fanfare, but with a style Music is very similar to military marches, drummers drum rudiments used the classic but with a different phrasing, directly inspired by the orchestras of stops (rolls less rigid, syncopation and accents in just the first time.