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thegodfaughnder
08-03-2005, 04:50 PM
anyone here involved with drumline or drumcorp?
im in my school's DL and i play 4th bass. i get all the offbeats.
dmbbmd18
08-03-2005, 05:00 PM
My little bro wants to play snare but the director won't let him. He is better than all the other snare players but the director says he needs him playing the clarinet because he is also the only clarinet that can be heard on the field.
skywalker_009
08-03-2005, 05:15 PM
My little bro wants to play snare but the director won't let him. He is better than all the other snare players but the director says he needs him playing the clarinet because he is also the only clarinet that can be heard on the field.

haha your brother sucks

but yeah anyway, i miss the drumline so much

i played: 9th grade-cymbals; 10th-2nd bass; 11th-3rd bass(bass leader!); and 12th-quints(section leader!)

but yeah anyway i dont know if i could have gotten through the mundaneness of high school without the dl... it just sucks because now i havent even picked up a pair of sticks in over a year :lorraine
JoelB2222
08-03-2005, 06:07 PM
I recently joined a competitive drumline that should start touring soon next year. My brother is the drummer in the family, I believe he's playing snare or maybe a bass. I joined as a guitar player in the battery. It's a lot of fun, and has taught me a ton about music.

Joel
skywalker_009
08-03-2005, 06:43 PM
im sure there arent, but is there anyone here who is in dci, cause that would be super awesome
DavMattBandrums
08-03-2005, 06:57 PM
my hs line is a very very competive line. we are ranked top 10 in the nation and half our guys march dci and 3/4 march wgi.

i play tenors (quads, quints) whatever you want to call them.. hahah. and i have marched wgi and am thinking about maybe doing dci .. who knows
PilotC150
08-03-2005, 07:52 PM
Marched trumpet for 4 years in high school, then played snare the summer after I graduated.

Marched another 3 years of trumpet in college, and now I'm going on 2nd year as Drum Major here at University of North Dakota.
skywalker_009
08-03-2005, 08:59 PM
my hs line is a very very competive line. we are ranked top 10 in the nation and half our guys march dci and 3/4 march wgi.

i play tenors (quads, quints) whatever you want to call them.. hahah. and i have marched wgi and am thinking about maybe doing dci .. who knows

my friend that i marched with in high school is now on the spirit of atlanta(or jacksonville, or whatever they are called now)... anyway he is just crazy good... but damn, that dci is basically your life and you dont even get paid to do it, but they sure are amazing:rolleyes
musicfreak21
08-03-2005, 09:31 PM
i was pit section leader in high school for 3 years. all my friends, minus me (long story), are in DCI. they are now touring the country for finals in New Jersey. So lucky!!!
JoeOfwhereIam
08-03-2005, 11:13 PM
I'm in my highscool drumline. Snare.
thegodfaughnder
08-04-2005, 12:52 AM
my hs line is a very very competive line. we are ranked top 10 in the nation and half our guys march dci and 3/4 march wgi.

i play tenors (quads, quints) whatever you want to call them.. hahah. and i have marched wgi and am thinking about maybe doing dci .. who knows

what school?
DavMattBandrums
08-04-2005, 01:35 AM
sioux falls lincoln high school
DavMattBandrums
08-04-2005, 01:48 AM
www.lincolnband.org
the band kinda sucks but the drumline is solid!
i dont mean to sound cocky but we are good, we marched the rose parade last year and now this year we are playing the cadets street time cadance (complete straight, not watered) its crazy but alot of fun.
skywalker_009
08-04-2005, 02:13 PM
www.lincolnband.org (http://www.lincolnband.org/)
the band kinda sucks but the drumline is solid!
i dont mean to sound cocky but we are good, we marched the rose parade last year and now this year we are playing the cadets street time cadance (complete straight, not watered) its crazy but alot of fun.

good stuff, gotta love the cadets

when i was there, my high school played in the chicago st. patricks day parade and the los angeles christmas day parade(oh and dont forget about 4 years in the milledgeville, ga christmas parade!!!:p )
musicfreak21
08-04-2005, 02:16 PM
my senior year, our drumline/pit was the best in SoCal. Even though the pit wasnt that great, the drumline was Drum Corp level. we would gather crowds while warming up in the lot.
DavMattBandrums
08-04-2005, 06:27 PM
my senior year, our drumline/pit was the best in SoCal. Even though the pit wasnt that great, the drumline was Drum Corp level. we would gather crowds while warming up in the lot.

we had a dci show in sioux falls a few weeks ago and the trooper were staying at our school which is where we practice. so we are out there just building chops when the troopers drumline comes over to watch us. well we were playing triplet diddle and although it was clean its not anything to amazing. so as like 3 mins later we broke for lunch and so i said 'hey tenors lets play bunco rules (the cavies cadance)' so we play it but we put in this riverside split role in the place of the bass feature. haha it was awesome. the troopers just turned around and walked away hahahah
skywalker_009
08-04-2005, 08:36 PM
we had a dci show in sioux falls a few weeks ago and the trooper were staying at our school which is where we practice. so we are out there just building chops when the troopers drumline comes over to watch us. well we were playing triplet diddle and although it was clean its not anything to amazing. so as like 3 mins later we broke for lunch and so i said 'hey tenors lets play bunco rules (the cavies cadance)' so we play it but we put in this riverside split role in the place of the bass feature. haha it was awesome. the troopers just turned around and walked away hahahah

that is so awesome... you guys are mean :lol :lol :lol
LB40
08-04-2005, 10:23 PM
I gave up percussion after middle school. I got bored during concert season. I took up bassoon and marched guard (flag, rifle, and sabre) for 3 years. Then, my senior year I was drum major. First guard member to ever become DM, so I was pretty psyched. Now I'm done. I might go back and do an independent guard this winter though.
Spartan36
08-04-2005, 11:05 PM
Last fall was my 5th year playing bass for Michigan State.

I also marched in the competitive drumline at PASIC.
ant_marching41
08-05-2005, 02:43 AM
my cousin is a damn good snare player. he did DL in highschool and was in the University of Deleware marching band, but he had to stop after this year.

i play sax, so im not in drumline, but i was in the indoor drumline a few years ago.
ErinDMB94
08-05-2005, 07:02 PM
my cousin is a damn good snare player. he did DL in highschool and was in the University of Deleware marching band, but he had to stop after this year.

i play sax, so im not in drumline, but i was in the indoor drumline a few years ago.


yay, i was in the UDMB too! haha :) i graduated in 2000 though and stopped after the fall '98 season.. and i played clarinet.
DavMattBandrums
08-05-2005, 11:37 PM
so does anyone in here have sheet music or mp3 of drumlines that they have marched? ill looking for some of my older stuff to post if anyone is interested
The Tan Man
08-06-2005, 09:07 PM
oh man i played snare in the drumline and it SUCKED, it is heavy and boring, i quit band this year, it blows
DavMattBandrums
08-06-2005, 11:53 PM
oh man i played snare in the drumline and it SUCKED, it is heavy and boring, i quit band this year, it blows

what are you talking about man! snare is soo light compared to the rest of the drumline's drums. full size double spock tenors are heavier than even bass 6! but i will agree that snare can be very boring unless it has so sweet licks in the book like flam fives and inverts. tenors are the way to go!
Spartan36
08-07-2005, 11:18 AM
I marched the 32 inch bass my first year...and I'm not a big guy....that was before we got bass stands too.

We used Pearl my first year too....which are heavier then yamaha.
skywalker_009
08-07-2005, 01:43 PM
what are you talking about man! snare is soo light compared to the rest of the drumline's drums. full size double spock tenors are heavier than even bass 6! but i will agree that snare can be very boring unless it has so sweet licks in the book like flam fives and inverts. tenors are the way to go!

:thumbsup i thought i had it rough when i played 3rd bass my junior year... but when i got to those tenors, boy was i in for a rude awakeing(at least for the first few weeks)
DavMattBandrums
08-07-2005, 02:22 PM
yea our school just had half size tenors till we went undefeated for 2 years at which point the Bandparents Asso. found it ok to give us new drums (hmmmm.... what happend to 'its not about winning'.) anyways we got doubl spock full size yamaha outdoor feild tenors. which happened to be the first year i marched for my hs. lucky me huh?? hahahaha