drumming.

I have thought sometimes he did it to hear the noise and to amuse himself, in which case it might be called drumming.

In Nesting Time Olive Thorne Miller 1874

If I had had a shot gun, I might have covered several, but with the rifle I could not hope for more than a single bird; so, wanting to make sure of that, I waited until an old cock mounted the rock, and got to 'drumming.'

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

"They'll also learn about drumming across cultures, because all cultures incorporate some kind of drumming."

detnews.com - Local 2009

Over time, however, the oscillations of the individual atoms became synchronized as different modes of the material locked in phase, emerging to become a heartbeat-like "drumming."

Nano Tech Wire 2008