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    Re: Beginner Marching Band Drummer

    Forgot to mention, seems like nobody covered this, save up for an invader v3. You may not need it now, but it will definitely help you somewhere down the road. It's a big investment for a snare pad....
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    Re: Halftime shows?

    Well, not exactly half time shows, but this is what I have. 1st one is our marching show at a competition. Second one is Lone Star drumline competition. :D Wewt, we placed second behind someone who...
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    Re: Beginner Marching Band Drummer

    Just played through your packet :D those seem like pretty helpful exercises (generally). Wish they were more standard though. I, personally, think that the standard exercises are a bit more helpful....
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    Re: A big decision

    Bass...:D

    Lol, snare players would like to make it seem like they're the best players, but really, they just like to show off. Don't pick the drum because you think that it means that you're the...
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    Re: Your Favorite drumline exercises!

    another of my favorites, since it hasn't been mentioned here, would be gallop/diddles and taps/pat's double (All the same thing). just a simple exercise to help work on rolls.

    YouTube -...
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    Re: DCI Championships

    I was part of an open class this year, marched a 30" bass for Spokane Thunder, lol. Anyway, we ended up with a 74.0 total, putting us in 7th in open class. Pretty good for a returning year I'd say....
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    Re: Your Favorite drumline exercises!

    My favorite stuff to do...hm...
    I like gridding a lot.
    Trip grid is basically the one described above.

    ONE trip let, TWO trip let THREE trip let FOUR trip let.
    one TRIP let, two TRIP let, three...
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    Re: Drum and bugle

    I'm pretty sure that it's called Spokane thunder. I had considered doing something like this anyway, but I sorta know one of the dudes who does Spokane, so that's what got me into that. Don't quote...
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    Drum and bugle

    I am a high school drummer and am considering joining some sort of drum corps. By doing this, though, I will be basically getting rid of the chance of actually having a summer away from bAnd....
  10. Thread: New drums!

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    Re: New drums!

    Remo heads are awesome. That's what I hope we'll get, since we're probably gonna get new heads. In fact...we probably have some at the school somewhere...
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    Re: Drumline Hero

    you'd have to have like 4 people to play the bass part :P but it would definitely be a cool idea. I don't know how they'd get the rhythms on there though. It seems like rolls and...
  12. Thread: New drums!

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    Re: New drums!

    Dude, my school switched from the pearl junk to the Yamaha's last year. Just opening the boxes and seeing the drums come out of the box was amazing. And we got the black stain too :D it just looks...
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    Re: a church drumline (?)

    It sounds like an awesome idea. Just talk to the church officials about it first. We almost got something like that together at our church, but we couldn't get the instruments from the school :( We...
  14. Thread: New Drums!

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    Re: New Drums!

    All I've ever used are Pearl drums (gross) and yamaha drums. I've always loved yamaha's drums, but never did like their equipment. I've always wanted to try dynasty drums, but I never really see them...
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    Re: What else 'do you do'?

    football
    paintball
    games
    guitar (kinda)
    archery
    friends

    That's about everything XD oh, and I collect knives. I only have about 5 though, since I'm not old enough to buy them -.- Junior in HS,...
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    Re: google yourself, Are you Famous?

    US president, the black mighty morphin power ranger XD, a full body photographer...some actor from a movie called the secret life of bees >.>, QB for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, some kind of...
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    Re: the Tenor thread

    I would have been playing quints this year, but our director thinks having only 1 tenor is a distraction. >.> nonetheless, I can play quints fairly well.
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    Re: What is your favorite drum cadence

    aaron, learn the cadence, and show it off to your line. Tell them that you bet they can't play it :D That's what I did for one of our cadences. Learned the bass, snare, and tenor part to it. Once I...
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    Re: What is your favorite drum cadence

    it does have a cool bass beginning, but I'm not totally sure about the other stuff. All I know is that we got it from one of the first guys to play it.
    This is a little bit like it. The beginning...
  20. Thread: Woohoo!

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    Re: Woohoo!

    Crabbing is really awkward at first, but I've never had any really serious problems with it. I know my friend got some bruises from it once, but he didn't have a huge problem with that. It get's to...
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    Re: Best practice EVER!!!!

    I still can't decide between tenors and bass. I love bass too much (no idea why) but I love tenors too. I made both, but we needed more bass line, so I chose bass.
  22. Thread: Woohoo!

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    Re: Woohoo!

    Yeah, he probably means crabbing. That is basically marching left or right. The rest of the band turns their lower body in the direction they are marching, we face forward. It's pretty much just side...
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    Re: What is your favorite drum cadence

    doc, duke, spider, dirty towel. Those are just a few we play. I'm sure someone will recognize spider XD
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    Re: Funny Drumline Stories?

    Just remembered this one. Our old percussion director used to always get really close to our drumline, mostly to hear how we were doing. Well, during one of our rehearsals, he got a little too close...
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    Re: Funny Drumline Stories?

    One time, we went to a drumline competition. We had practiced countless hours and had the show almost perfect. I don't really remember the score we ended up getting, just that we got 3rd or 4th (and...
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