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 Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:15 pm
Oh man, today was great. I was band practice, and we were practicing for drumline tryouts. We were in the boys locker room in the band room and Michael and Johnny and Lorenzo were in there with one snare and one tenor. The room is pretty small, a little bigger than my room (10*14) Well, a few feet bigger. So you can just imagine the sound and how loud it is. Lol they kept doing rimshots too. After like, 15 minutes everytime they accented I felt it in my ears. And oh God, the best feeling in the whole world (better than chocolate and sex) is the feeling of the bass and drum in your stomach and chest. Oh my goodness. When you're at a concert and you can feel the bass beat in your chest. *getting poetic now* Feeling the beat and rhythm flow through your bones and rattling your skeleton. *im so lame XP* But really though. I'm in pit this year. Lol it was sad, Ed was running the drills, 5321 (hard to explain and im lazy) on the mallets and then we switched to doing a c scale and I had my drumsticks in my back pocket so I guess I wasn't paying attention and I was playing the scale with my left hand (which isn't dominant) while my right hand was behind my back holding my drumsticks. And we stopped Ed said, "Heh, were you having some alternating problems?" Me: "What?" "YOu were playing with one hand." "Lol (imitating laughing in rl) really?" "Yeah you were, you had one hand behind your back." "Holy crap I didn't even realize that!" Yeah it was freaky. So tryouts were today also and we went 20 minutes over practice time (4:2osomething in the afternoon and i had craploads of homework to do) and I would have gone next to tryout, but nooooo I just had to wait until tomorrow.
I'm ranting about music because I can.
Okay, so we got a new drum coach his name is Jesse Joaquin Parker, and he has chest hair coming out of his shirt. IT'S DISGUSTING! And he's a major p***k. Wardell was so much better, he was awesome and funny. And he made awesome drills and stuff. But he got fired. Ed said it was pretty bad. Well, I think that's all I got. Tell me stories about your band and stuff. Rant about band class today. ^_^ heart domokun
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 1:19 pm
the first time my friend held cymbals, her ears started bleeding. those same lovely cymbals have made me partially deaf.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 1:25 pm
Drumming in small rooms....bad idea. I think I partially defened myself this morning when we had 3 snares, 2 tenors, and 1 bass playing cadences in the drum room and I didn't have my earplugs. Rim shots....*covers ears*
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 1:45 pm
Lol yeah, when I started on cymbals last year in Marching Band they told me to get ear plugs for whenever we played inside with everybody. And I most likely made it to pit this year! YAY! TRyouts were Wednesday and Thursday. It was...interesting. I can't believe I messed up the fricken e flat scale though on mallets! WTF!!! xp
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 5:14 pm
>< Rimshots suck, especially when one of our freshman are playing them. He tends to get as loud as he can possibly get and as fast as he can possibly play. One thing we've learned not to do is to stand by him when he's on a drumstick high. Plus, we only have one small bandroom, and an extremely small practice room which is smaller than an average person's bedroom. So we have to play in the bandroom.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:17 am
Yeah practicing in small rooms hurts. If you have a bass on an amp it sure doesn't make it any better. Gotta love the bigger band room. But pit sometimes practices in our uniform room, which is small and not sound proof.... oh the pain. When we work in the older gym at our school it is mandatory that we wear ear plugs since the accoustics are so bad. t gives you pounding head aches. But practice is fun at least... domokun
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Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:08 pm
belladonna_spiral the first time my friend held cymbals, her ears started bleeding. those same lovely cymbals have made me partially deaf. how big were they?
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:12 pm
Yeah... I know how that goes. I march snare and the guy next to me in line is like the King of Rimshots. I am now partially deaf in my right ear. No joke.
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:02 pm
I'm on the snare RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE BASS PEOPLE! So you can imagine what it's like...
Take me now, Deaf Angel.
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:30 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:13 pm
You should consider yourselves lucky. We aren't allowed to wear earplugs because Phil (our Canadian drum instructor) restricts their use. I guess he thinks we won't listen with them. It blows.
So anyway, we were getting ready for a show one time, and the school we were at hardly fit us in there. This is the entire drumline playing: 2 tenors, 3 snares, and 5 bass drums. We just kept looping the cadence again and again, and everytime we got to the part where we play fortisimo with a rimshot every other note, I not only lost hearing in both ears, I started losing vision. It was absurd. And awesome.
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:08 pm
when I first started on D-line we practiced on snares after 20 mins of warm-up some kind of.....ummm discharge came out of my ears
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:01 pm
blackrocker92 when I first started on D-line we practiced on snares after 20 mins of warm-up some kind of.....ummm discharge came out of my ears
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:00 pm
I think I'd rather NOT use earplugs...it would throw my hearing off entirely...although its pretty bad already. THANK YOU SLAVEN AND YOUR LOVELY BATHROOMS CADENCES
Yea, small rooms please 11 people together, equals chaos and deaf drummers. Why do I say this? Well, we do these things called Bathroom Cadences after home football games. Its where everyone on the Drumline (4 snares, 2 tenors, 5 bass drums) in the guys bathroom and we play a cadence as loud as we can. Yea, it bounces off and it sounds like a rock concert. (Note: 4/5 of the bass drums are girls)
But, when we aren't in a small room; either a large band room or out on the field, we often hear,"BASS DRUMS, PLAY LOUDER!" or "BASS DRUMS, HIT THE FREAKIN DRUMS!" Yea....
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Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:52 pm
what u say?.... smile jk. i'm half deaf after playing cymblas for 5 yrs.
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