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emotion_drool Wow, 10 snares...awesome...

Me and my friend Chris can both play four mallets relatively well, we both got 1's at contest on our solos. He's better than me though, at least I think so...we both got 'recruited' into pit by next year's pit leader. Yay!

And I'm only in eighth grade! Muhahahahahaha!

*stumbles into the thread, straightening out his hat*

Hello! So sorry I haven't been around...was having some slight issues in real life. Anyway...I read up on the topics, and someone challenged the fact that I hate it when people cesendo by rolling down the head from the rim...yes, well that's fine. Concert bands do it all the time to bring out the rattle of the snare head...and sometimes it does look nice on a marching field. The only problem is that the marching snare drum relies very much on its batter head for the volume. The rattle of the snares doesn't exist, and you get more of a clicking sound. With is oh so cool. The rolling cresendo is useless in a field setting because no one can really hear the difference anyway.

If you want to get a nice sound cresendo with some nice visual, keep your sticks in the center to the head and high stick it as it gets louder. I have a friend who can't control her sticks...she's very good, and she can play circles around a lot of people, but her sticks come so close to her face when she plays, I am often afraid she is going to whack herself in the head and fall unconscious. So you gotta be careful about that too..

Which brings me to the point of stick heights...

I've decided that I hate stick heights...you guys ever do that thing wi the bass drummers about stick heights where it's like... Zone 1..soft, Zone 2.. louder.. that sort of thing? Gah! No one ever is ever the same!! I remember our instructor had all us snares play with a metal bar over the top of the drums where the sticks where supposed to stop on the upward stroke. They goal was to keep from hitting that bar. All you could hear the was clinking of sticks on the bar!! It's frustating.. and I'm annoyed..and venting.

Okay okay.. going now...

Ugh, we dedicate entire practices to technique & stick heights in the beginning of the season and it drives me crazy stressed . Section leaders and instructors screaming (well, not really... yelling over the noise) in your ears and blocking the sticks from going higher... *dies*

When we do warm-ups, we're always supposed to start with level three (mezzo forte), but I'm doing level four or five (forte to fortissimo) trying to build up my arms. whee Bad me.

So now that we're on this topic, how does your drumline/section/whatever classify stick heights? Levels, zones, etc.

Our stick heights are classified thus: 3 inch, 6 in, 9 in, 12 in. I hate stick heights myself, being a pit gal at heart, and you're right--no one's ever the same! I always used to wack my thumb on the bass drum edges when we practiced stick stuff...... >.<

in inches 3 6 9 12 15 < being highest

im in 7th grade playing in TC marching band and
TC indoor percussion and Mullen concert
TC is a high school and Mullen is a middle school

they need to make sum handheld drumsticks and a snare or a reel feel practice pad

For those who are not in the RP or do not read out of context posts, I am going to start learning how to play the Quad drums tomorrow. I wanted to learn at least one percussion instrument, and I like the quads, so I choose them... I would totally give up my position as drum major I am about 75% sure I will get, to march quads... -drools- I know I will not be good enough for next year, so -sigh- Anyway, when I remember to, I will post my progress in here... I am already able to play a small bit of a candence, although simple, we have... and I was only noodling around, biggrin

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