drumbeat vs signaling

drumbeat and signaling both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
drumbeat	Yes	No	No	No
signaling	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, signaling is a hypernym of drumbeat; that is, signaling is a word with a broader meaning than drumbeat:

drumbeat: (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown
signaling: any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

Other hypernyms of drumbeat include sign, signal, signalling.

drumbeat (noun)	signaling (noun)
a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause	any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
(military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown
the sound made by beating a drum