Number 15 was our band when the bass drums (AKA me) came in completely late. This was like midway through our winter season, and most of the bass drummers still struggled memorizing the music, so our tech was like, I'm giving the part to my favorite student/drumset player.
One time when i auditioned for tenors (keep in mind it was my first year in marching band as a 7th grader.) We when to put the drums on for the first time and it was very heavy. The other kid auditioning for tenors who was a senior helped me put on the drums and they were very heavy. The instructor told me to try playing the music in the warm up packet but i forgot how to play in so i just played jig 2. I ended up in the pit that year
For the high school I went to, it would definitely be "feature was cut" because I don't think they've had an actual drum feature since my freshman year, as anything else remotely close to a drum feature was like an 8 bar percussion fill before winds kept playing again. Me personally as a beginner writer, I'd be "overwritten and terrible" because I don't have a solid grasp on what exactly is and isn't difficult for drumline
Did your school march military style? I made a similar comment as a suggestion for a 16th feature type because ours was military style. Those songs don't really allow for a feature, but would occasionally do a 1 to 8 bar break during a big maneuver to prevent lazer sounds. It was only the regular march cadence, though, not a real feature.
@@Nareimooncatt nah, ours was definitely more DCI style, heavily inspired by phantom, crown, and BD. to be more specific with how our drum features were, freshman year (2018) had an 8 bar feature showcasing each section, as well as another feature in 7/8, sophomore and junior year had no features, only a few fills, senior year (2021) had like a couple triplets before a bari sax solo, and 2022 if I remember right had a small fill to increase tempo. If you wanted to listen it's Rockford High School Marching band
This might be off topic but, In Middle School I played a song on Alto Sax called "A Prehistoric Suite" and it had an Anvil as Percussion 2 and I would like to know, Is it normal to play an anvil in a Middle school Concert Band,
I wish I could have gone to a good school with a good music education department because we were poor and played pretty bad. Obnoxious instructor is about as good as we were lol
I'm in middle school and my band diruwants to do a percussion ensemble and we need help finding music Ensemble what type of music would not be to hard but sound good and more up bear
Obnoxious drum instructor was so true, and also my favorite. 🤣 #10 with NO drum instructor had the instrumentation wrong. I would have expected a snare, two bass drums and 7 cymbal players. And for the sheet music, no need to write it out as none of them can play or read sheet music. Just go with the flow.
These had me laughing. At a competition in ‘90, we had already performed so there was time to watch a couple other bands’ performances. I specifically remember a line with a tenor player who had marched Bluecoats. It was very obvious that all of the talent and book were centered on his performance. That kid was doing stuff that didn’t even belong in the ensemble, let alone the rest of the quad line, but he did it well. Honestly, he probably improvised the whole show. Meanwhile, the snares sounded like a spoon in a blender and the basses struggled with 16th notes.
Good morning and this is video number 122 of asking for marchable bass drums, set up in a tenor formation. I.e. benor drums. PS: custom backbar may be needed
2:59 was me specifically, i joined cause some peers of mine in my music elective class wanted me to join marching band, and so I did, with absolutely no knowledge of how to comprehend, let alone read music. I was Front Ensemble, couldn't read music, so I listened and eventually found the places I was meant to strike a drum, or a symbol. It was fun though, would recommend to anyone who has passion for music!
My Drumline (and entire band) is always #3. We always just want the crowd to get into our shows. That's why we always have big props. Also why we don't compete. We just want everyone to have fun
I found myself struggling to each lunch while watching this because I couldn't stop laughing and choking on my food. This is so SPOT ON it's killing me 😂
you forgot "the instructor that has been doing drumline longer than the current director AND director before him ( and doesn't even do it professionally helping out the highschool is just a hobby) that always rewrites the parts to sound 5x better.
One Ive seen a couple times even in some of my school's shows before I went there is "Big block of unison 16th notes or triplets with some diddles thrown in occasionally"
Funny that you release this video today because today was the first day of band camp at my highschool, and my director showed us the show audio today, idk what the drum features would be on this list
I thought you had copy-pasted yourself for the parallel parts. Then I noticed the different drum skins. It's scary how in sync your movements were in the beginning
These videos make me think my section sucks The most complex thing we have in the bass drum section is 2 measure bass drum feature (not the drumline feature) bass 4 hits on 1 and + of 4 and then bass 1-3 go down after 2 eighth note diddles starting on the + of 1 In short it looks like 1+a2e+a3e+a4e+1 This is at 152 and we actually play them as rrll and not rlrl Normally we do splits with 2 eighth notes each down or 8 sixteenths where we each play 2 We never play any 6 lets 5 lets etc. although we also have a part where we split diddles on a triplet at 102 My instructor also gave bass 1 and 2 a slightly harder part since we’re the better players in the section overall bass 2 is close to 3rd best but might have the best technique and they’re the only one in the district including the band teachers that knows traditional grip
