Would You Classify Drums and Percussion as Two Different Things?

Drums are percussion instruments.

Drums are part of the percussion family.

Normally "drums" means just the drum kit (which includes cymbals which aren't drums!). Percussion would suggest a wider range of instruments, maybe congas, bongoes, timbales, tambourine, claves, glockenspiel, xylophone, marimba, vibes etc.

Percussion refers to instruments that are "Striking instruments". Whether that's by hand, mallet, lever, stick, etc. Keyboard instruments (a sub-group) such as piano, marimba, glockenspiel, etc are all part of percussion. Drums are a part of percussion as a sub-group. They are usually round, or bowl shaped, usually they have some sort of taut membrane over the top. Things like snares, toms, tenors, bass drums, kick drums, etc. One who plays a drum kit is usually referred to as a drummer, but all the instruments on the kit are percussion instruments, some are not drums. So you might be able to call yourself a percussionist, but probably more specifically a drummer.

Yes

Michael Shrieve played drums in Santana. Michael Carabello and José "Chepito" Area did the percussion – congas, timbales, Even the infamous Woodstock performance of Soul Sacrifice keyboardist Greg Rolie grabs the Afoxé and Maraca's. The Cabasa also a widely used percussion instrument. Many others as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBG6IaSQCpU

The term 'percussion' in music instruments is clarified by striking with the hand or with a handheld or pedal-operated stick or beater, or by shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and rattles. This would also include the piano as one is using their fingers to strike keys. So the answer to your question is no.

a drum has a head,percussion does not...

"what do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians"

"the drummer"

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"what do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians"

"the drummer"

"what do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians"

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"what do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians"

"the drummer"

"what do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians"

"the drummer"

a drum has a head,percussion does not...

A drum has a head,percussion does not.

fuckin idiot

https://youtu.be/N3Kzu2dejPM

Yes. You can't play drums and maracas, tambourine, cowbell, and bongos at the same time. Check out Chicago Transit Authority doing "I'm A Man". You'd have to be an octopus to play all those instruments at once.

its pretty easy to get confused, because there are 2 different ways to define these terms:
traditionally, percussion is a family of instruments, like woodwinds, drums are a specific type of instrument in that family, like a saxaphone would be for woodwinds.
however, when taken as credits on an album, they have a different meaning, drums is specifically a drum kit and percussion is used as a catch all for any other non-melodic percussion instruments (xylophone, vibes, marimba, kalimba, etc are also percussion but are given specific credit on albums like drums are)

this is further confused by the modularity of drums. you can pretty well mount any percussion instrument and use it as part of your custom drum kit.

so to answer the final question, how many instruments do i play, i've always had a hard time answering that one myself. i usually just tell people that i keep lots of instruments around and play them all- just some better than others.

"What do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians"

"The drummer"

They are two similar things that are very closely related. But are different, the piano is a precession instrument, so are the congas, they are used interchangeably but are different depending on how you decide to play them. The drums are a type of precession instrument.