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 Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:59 pm
Pit is life.
i'm on marimba whenever i have my way. there's just something about your instrument being longer than you are tall. i rock the 4 mallets to the extent of being awkward with only 2 and totally did a six mallet part during our show this year. hehe. phantom of the opera show is 4 mallet heaven. then again, our composer is amazing. *screams* I love you todd!
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 7:52 pm
Hey now.. you know what i say..... DOWN WITH THE SNARES!!!!!!!
Tenors all the way. see we put the attitude in the line. You bass players have your own little world where your all stiff and then the snares look like they have a stick up the a**. Then the tenors we are loose and flowy. Plus in my line we had the best parts. PLayed tenors all fours years. Loved every minutes of it. Pit your cool too dont get me wrong but you dont move around the feild. Anywho... TENOR PLAYERS UNITE!!!!
Captainquad (tradition thing...all our tenors players had super hero names...i love starting traditions.)
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:28 am
I heart my Marimba!!
I only know 2 mallet sweatdrop but I'm learning 4 mallet 3nodding 2nd year in marching band and 3rd year in winter drumline in South Cali ^__^ Anyone doing any ADLA competitions?
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:51 am
I just saw results posted for the '06 drumline... holy crap... I didn't make 3rd bass... it was because I kept slowing down and speeding up during my eight on a hand... I'm going to practice and then challenge the 1st bass drummer... I KNOW I can beat her if I just work at keeping a steady tempo...
By the way, I play flute for concert band. I played piccolo for marching season last year. Then I fell in love with the bass drums and pit.
So now that I'm in pit on marimba and other things, I'm okay. Even if I don't beat the 1st bass drum in a challenge.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:41 pm
Hey I just want to get your take on some things. I've played flute in the marching band for 2 years now and lord knows I'm not bringing much in the way of playing abilities so I started looking around for another section I would be willing to work REALLY hard in and that was drum line (no offense pit but I'd miss marching). I've loved percussion since I started flute in 4th grade (drums was my other choice but my friend convinced me flute would be "more fun") I like the people on line, I love the instruments, and I always take the old snare at my school and try on the harness just to see what it's like.
My true love is the Tenor but that's too technical for me to try in my first year so I thought I'd try out for Bass first and see how that went.
now to my questions: is bass hard to learn if you have no previous experience?
Will the line hate me if I can't play?
I'm worried about reading music. I'm a flute so normally I just hide behind runs and high notes and melody and I haven't actually had to concentrate on rhythm in a long time.
help me out guys? confused
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:00 am
Bass isn't all that hard to march, i marched bass my only year in band and i'm pretty good, all i can really say is make sure you work on your timing. you're gonna need that the most.
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:58 pm
yeah I had my first rehearsal last Wednesday and I'm madly in love with my bass already. I'm going to try out for bass 4 (even though it's bigger than me....) and see where I go from there. I have a few friends on the line and they're already helping me with the exercises so I can get more of the rythms down. My big problem right now is the terminology: I'm still thinking with my flute mind (breath marks, note letters, grace notes and I still first think out the whole measure instead of my one part.), and the fact that my muscles aren't used to it. Not to mention my harness was too big on me so I have bruises on my shoulders and hips. I'll get used to all that though and then I'll love it heart
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:29 am
Just have them adjust the harness to fit you properly, as far as memorizing your own parts as compared to the entire line's part. What we did was took highlighters to our notes, and which ever ones fell on our line, we highlighted.
As far as the Terminology goes, all you really need to know for being a drummer is the markings for flams (( which is basically a grace note )), diddles (( example: eighth note with a diddle marking on the first note is played like this: Right- Right Left and is played like 1-e-+-rest. Confusing at first but you get the hang of it.
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:20 am
diddles are my current enemy but I'm slowly but surely getting the hand of it. need to start working my left hand because it bothers me severely. I have to highlight it and put the counts under it but it makes it a hellof a lot easier to memorise. They refuse to change harnesses until spring training is over and they know exactly who is going to be one each drum domokun
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:14 pm
i love being in the drumline (LHDL rules) ne ways i am in the front ensamble and omg i love it at OMEA state finals we got all 1's in EVERYTHING.. we have an awesome drumline.. even tho the laps around the frikin huge school and parking lot at 7 in th morning wasnt my cup of tea.. i hate tea..lol. and the practices in the rain were tiring. and getting up at 5 in the morning to get to school for practice 2 hrs b4 the of the band gats there... but it was the beat. i loved it. we did the newsies show and the dl instructor wrote most of the percussion music. extremly hard... but i wouldnt trade it for nuthin!!1 p.s. the marimbas and vibes ROCK if u think 4 mallets is hard try doing 6 mallets......lol ninja the drumline ninja will throw a drumstick at u...
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:44 am
I just joined in pit and battery. All percussion people in my band are supposed to learn everything so we can switch off. I'm not really good snare right now. But I'm relatively new to it. So I'm practicing. I'm usually put at bass drum or mallets.
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:01 pm
Well line tryouts are in a month so they're shuffling the newbies to see where we're most comfortable and maybe willing to tryout and they put me on snare?! I kinda flipped because the snare part gets CRAZY half way through the peice but I played the first half pretty well. cool
I'm really starting to LOVE line. for all their immaturity they work HARD and are pretty damn AMAZING! heart
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:06 am
UreshiiNyoko Well line tryouts are in a month so they're shuffling the newbies to see where we're most comfortable and maybe willing to tryout and they put me on snare?! I kinda flipped because the snare part gets CRAZY half way through the peice but I played the first half pretty well. cool I'm really starting to LOVE line. for all their immaturity they work HARD and are pretty damn AMAZING! heart You're kidding me? For all the immaturity it REALLY got on my nerves, probably because they never DID work hard.
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:09 pm
maybe it's different with your line?
Mike (line instructor) was on drum corps until he aged out and he runs us hard (physical training, flam exercises for 20 minutes then 20 minutes of diddle exercises etc.) but no one complains because we know it helps. As named by the snare drummers he's the "drum-tator" to our "drum-tatorship"
and it's not just that Mike works us hard. The people work just as hard if not harder.
this all happened at 8:58 (practice ends at 9) I quote:
Mike: *gives the last round sign*
Andrew (snare): WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!? WE'VE GOT TWO WHOLE MINUTES LEFT! C'MON WE EVEN STARTED LATE!
Mike: ... I just stopped you so we could run through chicken and waffles again...
Andrew: SWEET *taps off*
yeah. we act like s**t heads on our break but we work for it cool
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:24 pm
I heart Xylophone!
I'm a freshman in HS, and I've been playing flute for quite a long time and alto sax for a year or two. This year, my school started a drumline and were recruiting WIND players from the concert bands...I was one of them. I have had no previous instruction in percussion and was put into the pit. There were a few other percussionists that had played for many years, like our pit section leader who was a junior was doing this.
Well, apparently our pit instructor "saw" something in me after about 3 months after I picked up my first pair of mallets, and gave me some of the most difficult parts to our show (4 mallet parts, 16th note runs at 180 bpm, etc.). He didn't even let my section leader have a go at them first, but gave them to me. Me! Of all people!
I have been in Pit for 6 months now, and I learned a lot about keyboard instruments, mallets and how to play 2 mallet and 4 mallet parts. (and am supposed to learn 6 mallets next season.) My band director even invited me to join the highest level band at our school on mallets, even though I play flute in class.
Btw, our instructor is an evil dictator, and came to our school after getting fired at his last job. scream DIE BUSH!
Well that's my story! And now I love Pit!
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