Add mystical sounds to your tracks with Hollywood Fantasy Percussion that provides a full suite of thunderous instruments to complement your epic sound. When scoring for fantasy, there are countless settings where conventional percussion simply doesn’t capture the magic. Each instrument in this collection has been selected to span every setting imaginable, so that no matter the scoring task, users have the tools to not only underscore the drama on-screen, but to wrap up the audience in an entirely new, fantastical world.

3 Bodhrans
The Bodhran is heavily featured in Celtic folk music that's typically played with a two-sided mallet or by hand, offering a gentle but firm pulse to keep the music moving.

3 Gran Cassas
A bass drum has been added to this collection to help extend the low end of the orchestra that is struck in a much wider range of impacts.

3 Large Taikos
The large Taiko is a tight-knit ensemble recorded to provide the glorious bassy rumble these massive drums are famed for. Their ominous low end simply can’t be beaten.

60lb Nagado Ensemble
The massive Nagado-daiko was designed for rituals and spiritual uses, and is a great way to underscore austere ceremonies with a single, haunting low impact. This drum ensemble especially shines in slow, quiet passages with little competition in the orchestra.

Ceng Ceng
These Balinese cymbals have a splashy, resonant character perfect for background ambience as they are softer in sound than Western types.

Crotales
These smaller cymbals are a great way to sustain a gradual, regal melody and offer a delightful contrast with wind and stringed instruments.

Cymbal and Gong Ensemble
A collection of assorted struck, rolled and tapped metals for whenever you need a dose of inspiration. Inside this diverse collection you’ll find all manner of shapes and sizes you can use to brighten up tracks.

Goatnail Shaker
This unique shaker is a collection of hoof trimmings gathered by indigenous peoples while milking their goats. The result is a dry, brittle rattle ideal for underscoring eerie, mystical rituals performed by ancient cultures.

Goatnails and Ceng Ceng
A mix of alternate performances of other instruments above, focused on ease and playability to quickly introduce a variety of timbres into your score.

Krakeb
North African castanets with a rounder timbre and lower pitch with a hollow quality that sets them apart from other cymbals.

Metal Shaker
This shaker provides a soft, dispersed sound ideal for gently driving the rhythm; its airiness creates the perfect high-end complement to a drum ensemble without the splashiness of cymbals to round out the arrangement with a nice accent layer.

Nagara Rub FX and Ashiko
Imagine a deep, atonal bowed instrument howling in the night and you’ll get a similar sound to this rubbed Indian drum. The Ashiko is a combination of multiple folk drums evoking images of festivals, street performances, rituals, and any manner of other cultural settings. The nagara is often used in the popular dance form Ghoomar, commonly attributed to the 2018 movie Padmaavat.

Orchestral Bell Ensemble
These bell chimes help round out the collection and lock in a more conventional orchestra sound, though they’re equally suited to adding the sound of church bells in a castle town or scoring joyous ceremonies that demand regal treatment.

Orchestral Metallurgy
A collection of large metals being grazed, struck and beaten for a suite of heavy industrial sounds.

Snare Ensemble
Traditional drum corps are an essential tool to convey the grandeur and scale necessary to move your score along.

Toms
The deeper, rounder cousin to the snare ensemble, this creates a hefty lower-mid power layer for additional oomph in your drum core (or simply a nice thwack when needed).