Bañas additionally encourages that the Negritos were known to utilize the five-tone, or pentatonic scale in their music. He likewise advances that old Filipinos additionally rehearsed the, du-nu-ra (conventional love melodies), tal-bun (bubbly festival tunes with ad libbed words to suit the event), and the dance exhibitions of the piña camote and the piña dad ni-lan which portray exhibitions of people cultivating and associating with nature. Bañas classifies the Negritos into various subgroupings. He distinguishes the Igorots, the Apayaos, the Ifugaos, and the Ilongot. He references Ilongot instruments and even expounds on the previously mentioned gansa, considering it a “tom” and saying that it was “made of bronze and looks like a round container around twelve or thirteen creeps in measurement, with a boundary of around two crawls to the face. Dangled from a string, it is beaten with a stick while the artist walks and it is muted with the open hand at an end.”

Notwithstanding composed language, another quality that Austronesians share practically speaking is their craft. The main association between all Austronesian individuals are their body craftsmanship rehearses. Nitty gritty and intricate, these inking ceremonies are viewed as typical. This custom should be visible commonly among a considerable lot of the different Polynesian societies; from which the word tattoo is gotten from. In any case, on the off chance that Polynesian individuals are likewise viewed as a piece of the Austronesian gathering, it is both conceivable and justifiable why inking was so pervasive among Filipino individuals in their set of experiences, too. Tattoo craftsman and writer Lane Wilken writes in his book, Filipino Tattoos, about how when the Spanish first shown up in quite a while, explicitly the Visayas, they were welcomed by the neighborhood occupants. Portrayed as more obscure cleaned individuals with many-sided and complex markings on their skin, the Filipinos were named as “pintados” by the Spanish, and afterward continued to name the Visayan Islands of the Philippines, Las Islas de Los Pintados, or The Islands of the Painted Ones. Individuals of the Visayan Islands were known tattoo their whole bodies, from head to toe. As well as inking, different structures and customs of craftsmanship like dress and piece of clothing, brightening earthenware with delightful examples frequently looking like the ones in the inking, oral execution customs, dance, and music existed inside Filipino-Austronesian culture.

Austronesian music in the maritime island countries of Southeast Asia have a combination of Chinese, Indian, and Arabic melodic sonics that are melded with the native styling of Austronesian music and culture. For instance, a melodic style predominant inside the Arabic Southeast Asian geologies is known as gamelan. With its Islamic roots, gamelan was a sort of symphony that integrates Xylophone-like and Allophone components. This music style was, yet is, rehearsed inside Filipino music. All through the southern islands of the Philippines, there are likewise more instruments that characteristic their foundations to Austronesian music culture. These instruments are named Kulitan, and a gong-toll named gangsa or gansa.