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 Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:52 pm
I know most of you guys are marching band players. But I had a great experience the other week. I came home from college (where I do march), and played in my old high school pep band.
I hadn't play drum set in 5 months. Felt great. Just getting to be free again. Pure artistic improv and flow on old songs that I knew by heart smile . Just was a great feeling. My high school has one of the best pep bands in the state. They are only Division 4 in the state of a high school of only 200 kids. But 70 of those kids play in the band. Whenever we play pep band at sport state competitions (volleyball mostly), we get told by division 1 player we are the best pep band they've ever heard. It's a great feeling.
I love marching, love my snare smile , but there's something about playing set back at home.
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:36 pm
I'm a new percussionist to this guild.
Can someone help me get to know people?
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:48 am
legobob5000 I'm a new percussionist to this guild. Can someone help me get to know people? im new too. 3nodding lol, here anyway. domokun PROUD TO BE A BAND NERD! w00t!
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:35 pm
go find the person above you thread, that's a great way to learn about people!
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 5:51 am
I'm a Freshman and I march Cymbals at my high school x3. And I'm a major advocate of cymbal playing. It's so fun, I love it.
And now I'll probably get a lot of 'WTFBBQ!'s, but, I hope Percussionists'll understand =P.
My line's massive. 16 people. 6 are cymbals, 4 are bass, 5 snare, 1 quads. That's out of a band of 100, too, and a school of 400.
It rocks ^^;.
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:37 pm
x Akuma-chan x I'm a Freshman and I march Cymbals at my high school x3. And I'm a major advocate of cymbal playing. It's so fun, I love it. And now I'll probably get a lot of 'WTFBBQ!'s, but, I hope Percussionists'll understand =P. My line's massive. 16 people. 6 are cymbals, 4 are bass, 5 snare, 1 quads. That's out of a band of 100, too, and a school of 400. It rocks ^^;. That's small. We had 28. 9 snares, 5 tenors, 5 basses, and 9 cymbals. We had about 30 in the pit as well.
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:38 pm
x Akuma-chan x I'm a Freshman and I march Cymbals at my high school x3. And I'm a major advocate of cymbal playing. It's so fun, I love it. And now I'll probably get a lot of 'WTFBBQ!'s, but, I hope Percussionists'll understand =P. My line's massive. 16 people. 6 are cymbals, 4 are bass, 5 snare, 1 quads. That's out of a band of 100, too, and a school of 400. It rocks ^^;. Wow, we only had 11 or 12, I can never keep track of how many snares are on our line sweatdrop Although we only had two cymbol players and two quads..... we might get marching bells next year, it's going to be awesome. xd
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:15 am
I am an eighth grader in the line(my band starts in eighth) and i play bass drum.
My line is small.
3 snares
2 quads
1 cymbol
4 bass drums
My school has around a thousand people.
75 people in the band
Pre-K through 12th
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:44 pm
Gah....you guys have big bands! Out of the 1400 kids in my school, our marching band has only 84 people.
Yes. 84. >_>
And our percussion section is small - Line is 2 snares, 4 basses and 1 tenor. We have all of 6 people in Pit.
domokun
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 6:09 pm
My school: 2000+. My band: 100 at most. My perc section: 20 people.... **huge sweatdrop** About 6 of the 20 are capable. We had during marching season:
3 snares, 5 basses, 2 quads, and no cymbals
10 pit members.
So. Yeah.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:15 pm
haha, this year our band was tiny. the band is like 75-85 members. the drumline (off the field) was 5/6 cymbals (6 players, only 5 pairs of cymbals, lmao) 1 quint, 5 bass, 3 snare
junior year: 3 snare, 5 bass, 2 quint, 3 cymbal
sophomore: 4? snare, 5 bass, 1 or 2 quint, 3 cymbal (new drums this year!)
freshman: 6 snare, 4 bass, 1 quad, 3 cymbal
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:18 pm
MinachiTsukaru Gah....you guys have big bands! Out of the 1400 kids in my school, our marching band has only 84 people. Yes. 84. >_> And our percussion section is small - Line is 2 snares, 4 basses and 1 tenor. We have all of 6 people in Pit. domokun Exact same situation here. Even the pit. Wierd...
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 5:24 pm
*hugses all her pit equipment*
yay pit! I love all mallet instruments, especially my vibes... which I hog during every rehearsal.
Our drumline is decent I think...
5 bass, 3 or 4 snare, 2 tenors I think, but its in flux right now... no cymbals... our percussion instructor is a staunch believer in only a little of a good thing (crash cymbals) so us pit people will cover a few crashes through out the show... though for parades we split the pit, most of us in front doing the banner and state/city/American flags, and three or four in back with cymbals.
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 5:52 pm
We have 200.
We have two percussion instructors. We have 4 snares(I'm center snare and section leader) 3 tenors, 4 bases, 4 cymbals.
I love marching band, it's my life.
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 6:33 pm
HKF *hugses all her pit equipment*
yay pit! I love all mallet instruments, especially my vibes... which I hog during every rehearsal.
Our drumline is decent I think...
5 bass, 3 or 4 snare, 2 tenors I think, but its in flux right now... no cymbals... our percussion instructor is a staunch believer in only a little of a good thing (crash cymbals) so us pit people will cover a few crashes through out the show... though for parades we split the pit, most of us in front doing the banner and state/city/American flags, and three or four in back with cymbals. Strange? That's exactly how I am. We have to share a vibe between 2 bands at our freshman center. I wouldn't let them have it until the BD said to. I said it earlier but i'll say it again. We had 28 on our DL. 9 snares, 5 tenors, 5 basses, and 9 cymbals. We had about 30 in the pit.
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