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 Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:07 pm
WolfofMibu miss kuroki wheeee~ this is my first year on drumline (I play vibes in pit whee ) and it's really fun! and the marching band I'm in ish going to san antonio, TX on halloween weekend.. but I cant remember what compitition it is... sweatdrop our drumline has 23 people on it, three quads, five snares, five bass drums, and ten in the pit. but there are no snare or quads who are girls... bah. ooh,ooh,ooh! i live in San Antonio!!! so i might be there for whatever it is sweatdrop oooh~! yay!! look fer a goddard, KS band if yer there~~~ whee
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:09 pm
I'm a drumline groupie. eek Just felt like letting you all know that. xd
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:54 am
Mirri Night I'm a drumline groupie. eek Just felt like letting you all know that. xd me did that last year! i had the band hating me because i did it, but o well! O and hi, i'm a member of the Drumline at my school, we are a Group II TOB band as well as a group III USSBA band, so if any of yas are from the same, lemme kno, maybe i'll see ya at chapters
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:35 pm
Well, I joined the guild today sooo, letting everyone know my experience.
I came from a small highschool of 200 but we had a huge band program for a small school with 70 people being in the highschool marching band.
As an eighth grader I was given permission to march in the parades but not the field shows on snare. I'm a rudimental player but am not as good of chops as I want. (doubt I'll ever reach that) I've for the longest time been a jazz player that hated using traditional grip cause match just felt so much better. Well eitherway.....
I was section leader last two years of highschool and then went off to college. I play for University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire marching band. Eau claire is a school of only 10,000 as opposed to the 40,000 in Madison. But we are the best public university for music in the state. Best musicians in Wisconsin come here. So with our Marching Band of only 140 we are incredible.
I'm a freshmen here at the University and I'm on the snare line. Earlier this season we got to play on Lambeau field in front of 70,623 Packer fans which was sweet. We're a show band instead of the Drum Corps militaristic style. Our director is from the south, explains it. So we do tons of dancing on the field, it's meant to sound sweet and look like we're having fun, which we do. This year our best show was music of James Brown.
We play traditional so I had to beat myself up to start doing it, I'm still not as good as I am match but... that's okay, it's getting more natural. I pick up a pair of sticks and want to hold them traditional now. Basically... marching band owns smile And drumline is where it is wink
Being a rudiment drummer though... I cant play mallets to save my life. Any 4 stick mallet part is so beyond me it isn't even funny. I'd love to learn.
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:08 pm
I can play just about any instrument in the pit or the drumline, its just that i have to work really hard for the diddles on the snares, i can't do them trad style at all...
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:47 pm
Diddles make me happy smile Love to play with my diddle.... er something like that.
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:55 pm
Sakeyum Diddles make me happy smile Love to play with my diddle.... er something like that. diddlin is fun, but hard, i diddle here and there, but not aS often as i used too..
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:27 pm
i am now bass drummer 3 in our winter drumline... i just started playing percussion, so it's a little harder... yeah, i'm a sophmore in highschool, maybe i should started earlier... but anyways... there are about 3 cadences that i don't know yet, and am still trying to learn, and it's bugging me SOOO bad cuz it's taken me so long to learn them... except one that just got made up last week, and that one is a little odd, but it sounds AWSOME!!
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:29 pm
Baka-baka-chan i am now bass drummer 3 in our winter drumline... i just started playing percussion, so it's a little harder... yeah, i'm a sophmore in highschool, maybe i should started earlier... but anyways... there are about 3 cadences that i don't know yet, and am still trying to learn, and it's bugging me SOOO bad cuz it's taken me so long to learn them... except one that just got made up last week, and that one is a little odd, but it sounds AWSOME!! COOLISH mesa play bass 2 for marchin band, but i dunno if i am gonna do a winter drumline... MAYBE
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:33 pm
Nintendo Punk 05 Baka-baka-chan i am now bass drummer 3 in our winter drumline... i just started playing percussion, so it's a little harder... yeah, i'm a sophmore in highschool, maybe i should started earlier... but anyways... there are about 3 cadences that i don't know yet, and am still trying to learn, and it's bugging me SOOO bad cuz it's taken me so long to learn them... except one that just got made up last week, and that one is a little odd, but it sounds AWSOME!! COOLISH mesa play bass 2 for marchin band, but i dunno if i am gonna do a winter drumline... MAYBE really?? kool... if your school has a pep band that performs at basketball games, i'd suggest it because that's what alot of people like... i heard alot of people say last year that their fav part of the pep band was the drum line. people enjoy listening to the drums... plus if the symbols do a twistie thing its awsome lookin
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:52 pm
I really wish my old highschool had had winterdrumline. A friend of mine from Minnesota last year won their state competition a while back. They did music from West Side Story. All wore leather jackets, was really sweet.
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:53 am
Im a keyboardist at heart. Always have been. I've played since i was just a little thing but I play trumpet in band. I can't wait for Winter Drumline to start so i can get back in the pit! I love marching but i think i like to consentrate more on the music than the marching.
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:17 am
Hey what kind of drums are everyone's favorites (band wise)
What sticks do you prefer?
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 1:46 pm
Sakeyum Hey what kind of drums are everyone's favorites (band wise) What sticks do you prefer? no preference for me, i'll just stick to my BD mallets...
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:16 pm
Sakeyum Hey what kind of drums are everyone's favorites (band wise) What sticks do you prefer?
Sticks? Well, they WERE Vic Firths, but at the rate that I'm chewing through my sticks, I dunno...I went through two pairs at the beginning of the season, and my third pair is starting to split. The other quint player is already almost through with his third pair. We can have a figgin' bonfire by the time band season is over...
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