Its genre is divided into north, east and south roads according to the three sea areas of Jiaodong Peninsula. "North Road" is popular in Penglai and Yantai. There were Ding, Zhou and Yang Datian in the early stage, and Zhou Dexiang, Ren Futing and Wu Xianda in the later stage. The singing is loud and lively, with rich melody and strong local flavor. "East Road" is popular in Wendeng, Rongcheng, Rushan and other places along the eastern coast of the peninsula. Its tunes are simple and rich in rap, represented by Peng Runzhi, who is called "Peng Diao". "South Road" is popular in Laiyang, Jimo, Haiyang, Yexian and other places along the southern coast of the peninsula. The early famous artist was Xu Shanghou of Laiyang, and later there were famous artists such as Zhang Zhenbao and Feng Dexiang of Qixia. Its singing has absorbed many musical features, such as Qiang Mao, Laiyang Tanci and Donglu Drum.
According to historical records, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, and blind artists from all over Jiaodong formed the "Blind Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association" based on patriotic enthusiasm. They beat gongs and drums to promote anti-Japanese. In the same year, the Propaganda Department of Beihai District Committee decided to hold a "training course for the blind" in Yanzi Mine in the Magnetism Mountain area of Penglai, with the theme of mass work and mass production in the war and base areas, creating new words, improving drum music tunes, and then performing artistic processing and publicity on real people and stories. During the period of 1943, Liang Qianguang of Beihai Troupe was ordered to serve War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and composed excellent works such as Huang Da Jia and Battle of Shanghai, and its innovative tunes were praised as "Liang Diao". Driven by the "Anti-Japanese Salvation Association for the Blind" and Liang Qianguang, all parts of Jiaodong began to perform effectively, thus making Jiaodong Drum active in the whole Jiaodong anti-Japanese base area.
1942, in the anti-Japanese base area of Jiaodong Peninsula led by the producer of China * * *, blind artists were organized to set up the Jiaodong Blind Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association, and training courses were held with the Jiaodong Literature and Art Association to help blind artists learn politics and reform the rap content. At that time, Liang Qianguang, a literary and art worker of Beihai Troupe, was responsible for the professional study of some rural blind artists at the junction of Penglai, Fushan and Qixia counties, learning rap art from artists, constantly absorbing the essence of drum singing in various counties and gradually forming a new style. Before and after War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Liang Ganguang sang new lyrics in Jiaodong, Jinan, Luda, Bengbu, Shaoshao and Yongcheng. 1943, Beihai Troupe Liang Qianguang was ordered to create new words and innovative tunes together with Zhou Dexiang and Ren Futing, serving War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, creating excellent works such as "Da Huang Jia" and "Da Ying", and holding a training course for blind artists in Penglai Swallow Mine, which enlivened the whole Jiaodong anti-Japanese base area with drums. The innovative tune created by Liang Ganguang is called "Liang Diao". Later, he went to Lvda, Qingdao and Jinan to perform, which expanded the influence of Jiaodong Drum. 1949, named Jiaodong Drum.
"Jiaodong Drum has a complete set of vocal drum plate structure, such as drum sleeve, initial tone, swinging cavity, flat plate, coloratura, sad tone, allegro, inverted allegro, counting board, falling board, scattered board, burning paper tone and so on.